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Music Review : Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs (2015, 20 Buck Spin) Released in June this year, the second album of Obsequiae, Aria of Vernal Tombs, is a rich metal album that blends medieval music without being folk, viking, or out there too much. The parallel with Ophtalamia and ear read more

1000th Post : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Myself and Let the Words Do the Talking Over the time, the reviews, the blogathons, the posts, the comments, and the stats my main blog Le Mot du Cinephiliaque has evolved as my escape from my everyday life. At first, it was a place tha read more

Music Review : Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls (2015, Parlophone, Sanctuary Copyrights/BMG) Of the few bands that can be the best introduction to Metal music in general, Iron Maiden along Metallica are the two sure shots that almost anyone knows and loves or hates. For me, Iron Maide read more

Music Review : Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed (2015, Nuclear Blast) To state that I am a fan of the Ancient Egypt themed Technical Death Metal band Nile would be an understatement. For more than fifteen years I’ve spined each and every one of their albums endlessly. Trying t read more

Note : this review is my contribution to The Lauren Bacall blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood. Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990) Few days after being rescued and sheltered from a car crash caused by a blizzard by a nurse who claims to be his number one fan, a wel read more

Music Review : Krisiun – Forged In Fury (2015, Century Media) Technical death metal can be brutal and satisfying in its way of tight, fast changes of tempos and aggressive mastery of instruments. Brazilians of Krisiun have made a name for themselves as some of the most consistent deat read more

Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984) Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result. Lately, I’ve joined the Cult Film Club and Alex Cox’s Sci-fi amalgam of counter culture of punk rockers blended with a metaphor on American read more

Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) Ten sequences examine the emotional lives of women at significant junctures. Filmed with digital cameras attached to the dashboard and shot entirely in the car driven by Mania Akbari, Ten paints a picture of a woman that wanted to be more than a submitted housewife read more

Music Review : Leviathan – Scar Sighted (2015, Profound Lore) From criminal to rehabilitated metalhead, Jeff Whitehead or Wrest is coming back with another album on the excellent label Profound Lore.  The only member of Leviathan, Whitehead one of the most successful American read more

Music Review : Beach House – Depression Cherry (2015, Bella Union / Mistletone / Sub Pop) The dream pop duo of Beach House formed in 2004 has release a series of widely celebrated albums. With their latest, Depression Cherry, they are doing a return to their original form of more minim read more

Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015) A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watch-dog assigned to him. The setting : Hawaii. The cast : Bradley Cooper, read more

A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987) An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbor and falls in love with her, thus starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting. With his Dekalog, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski attempted to make an hour film wit read more

Music Review : Myrkur - M (2015, Relapse Records) After making a burst into the black metal community with her EP in 2014, Myrkur, or Amalie Bruun, has united forces with producer and member of Ulver, Garm, Teloch from Mayhem and Sir of Nidingr to make one of the most idiosyncratic metal alb read more

Guess what? In more than six years of activity and postings on this blog I’ve never hosted a proper blogathon! So I wanted to mix two things I like a lot : winter sports and movies. This is again yours truly on a snowboard circa 1998. Date : December 1st to the 4th. Just read more

Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000) Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partn read more

Note : this review is my participation to The Wonderful Ingrid Bergman blogathon hosted by the wonderful Virginie at The Wonderful World of Cinema. Elena et les hommes aka Paris Does Strange Things (Jean Renoir, 1956) Polish countess Elena falls in love to a French radical party's candida read more

1941 (Steven Spielberg, 1979) Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. After a couple of blockbuster hits in the Horror genre with Jaws in 1975 and the Science-fiction genre with Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, Steven Spielberg was hot a read more

Music Review : Krallice – Ygg Huur (2015, self-released) Since ten years or so, American black metal has been revigorating the metal world with new band tenures and new extremity in a music that is probably the most repellent for the occasional listener. Of all those American bands, Kr read more

Music Review : Tame Impala – Currents (2015, Interscope) Kevin Parker’s band, Tame Impala has been on a series of successes since its debut in 2007. First with Innerspeaker and then with Lonerism with which he earned a lot of money with the song Elephant only. The much awaited C read more

Music Review : Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (2015, Relapse Records) While most Black metal bands are centered about the dark themes in human nature, the new generation of American black metal bands have taken an approach near light and the human introspection. This anti-conformi read more