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Music Review : George Kollias - Invictus (2015, Season of Mist) Greek musician George Kollias, known mostly for his work as the longest staying drummer with the band Nile, has released a solo work of Technical Death metal. Well, his main band Nile also does a form of Technical Brutal Death m read more

Music Review : High On Fire – Luminiferous (2015, E1 Music) Produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge), the latest record from sludge masters High On Fire couldn’t be more on point than it is. A return to their pre-Snakes For the Divine and De Vermis Mysteriis detour. Their music is fast read more

Music Review : Liturgy – The Ark Work (2015, Thrill Jockey Records) Following their 2011’s Aesthetica, the reunited quartet Liturgy have tried to make obviously an ultimate attempt at making a masterpiece with their craft here. Leaded by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Liturgy has been labe read more

Virginie Pronovost’s 11 Questions : 1- If you had the chance to play any movie character, which one would you choose? Since I’m not an actor I think this is a difficult question to answer. To pick one I think I would say Marty McFly. The Back to the Future trilogy was one of th read more

Vacation (Harold Ramis, 1983) The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated. For almost twenty years I’ve been watching year after year Christmas Vacation and saying to whomever that cares to listen that i read more

The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. This poetic tale o read more

Note : this review is my contribution to the Classic Movie History Project blogathon hosted by Movies Silently & Silver Screenings & Once Upon a Screen. Surfing on the recent successes of the now widely recognized French New Wave, La nouvelle vague, France was a b read more

Note : this review is my contribution to the Billy Wilder blogathon hosted by Outspoken & Freckled & Once Upon a Screen. Poster by Saul Bass One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) C.R. "Mac" MacNamara (James Cagney) is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Co read more

Music Review : Akitsa – Grands Tyrans (2015, Hospital Productions) While opening with Dévoilé like most of the primitive black metal origins of the vein of early Ulver and Darkthrone the Montréal based band led by O.T. pushes its listener into a path that black metal territories have read more

A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987) The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, calculated, flawlessly performed execution (both killings s read more

Note : this review is my contribution to the Beach Party blogathon hosted by Speakeasy and Silver Screenings. Die Hard : With a Vengeance (John McTiernan, 1995) John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon Gruber in New York City, where he plans to rob read more

Entourage (Doug Ellin, 2015) Movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), together with his boys Eric (Kevin Connolly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), and Johnny (Kevin Dillon), are back - and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) on a risky project that will serve a read more

Note : this review is my contribution to the blogathon My Favorite Classic Movie hosted by Rick at Classic Film & TV Café. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948) A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima balleri read more

Note : This review is my contribution to the Film Preservation blogathon hosted by Ferdy on Films, This Island Rod, and Wonders in the Dark. Please donate generously. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fig read more

Music Review : Blur – The Magic Whip (2015, Parlophone) Forever for mainstream music listeners Blur will be linked with their hit Song 2 and for a few more their singer will be remembered as the mysterious voice behind Gorillaz. Blur’s new album, The Magic Whip, features twelve n read more

Music Review : Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (2015, Asthmatic Kitty) Carrie & Lowell is my first experience with singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens and I must say his acoustic indie rock hooked me at the first listen. The melancholy and sadness of this record reminded me how t read more

Note : This review is my contribution to the Shorts! blogathon hosted by Movies Silently from May 2nd to the 4th of 2015. Please visit the links and enjoy the readings of the other great writers participating. Les maîtres fous (The Mad Masters) (Jean Rouch, 1955) The effects of coloni read more

Music Review : Bell Witch – Four Phantoms (2015, Profound Lore) Following their first effort of 2012, Longing, the funeral doom duo of Dylan Desmond on bass and Adrian Guerra on drums delivers one of the greatest piece of music of 2015 with Four Phantoms. Those four behemoth songs a read more

Music Review : Raised Fist – From the North (2015, Epitaph Records) Sweden’s hardcore punk titans of Raised Fist are back with another record titled From the North that could situate them geographically from the other popular hardcore acts. In the early 2000’s hardcore and read more

Music Review : Caïna – Setter of Unseen Snares (2015, Broken Limbs) The term one-man-band is well known in the black metal genre and Caïna is an essential representation of this form of metal and band from Manchester, UK. Setter of Unseen Snares is a short album inspired by Matthew McC read more