Benjamin Louche

This is my LAST ONE-MAN SHOW at the wondrous @fontainesldn . An ALL NEW SHOW, Silhouettes and Shadows: darkness in the songs of David Bowie! “There’s a terror in knowing what this world is about” TWO NIGHTS ONLY! 27th & 29th May TICKETS: signmynight.com/69c3d8cba0a7020d2b1710bc/a-night-with-benjamin-louche?fbclid=IwY2xjawRqoR1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF2REw1bmpUaWJPbTVxZ3pZc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmygWkB31P2idDavvgbGAx81i8HIhcX4zToUQeZTFKvml4fldatCutbD6pr5_aem_9NgBDAHvv5Hy0xZtx64uzg

Dinner time listening in the Louche/Thorne household tonight: Traineater by The Book of Knots

BEHOLD, the PENULTIMATE @therrclub of the season! The Double R Club, May 21st will bring the DARKEST and DEEPEST of dreams to all willing to enter the red velvet elsewhere of @tradese17 with us... TICKETS: signmynight.com/690dcc09d496700fcd659f89/the-double-r-club-may-2026?fbclid=IwY2xjawR1K8dleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFqVWV1RVpCZ3ZTcjJ0R3RWc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmoGSqzuGiHJdv9j4Bu2EWlyo6xWspoTWac41ZcPVhic5lYVReW8erldvrJ8_aem_BXEYB6fjNuXzpY8-OSR6eA

Dinner time listening in the Louche/Thorne household tonight: The Big Cats Will Throw Themselves Over by Bellmer Dolls

Enjoyed The Smashing Machine (on Prime)

Dinner time listening in the Louche/Thorne household tonight: Songs of Love and Hate by GODFLESH

This is my LAST ONE-MAN SHOW at the wondrous @fontainesldn ! An ALL NEW SHOW, Silhouettes and Shadows: darkness in the songs of David Bowie! “There’s a terror in knowing what this world is about” TWO NIGHTS ONLY! 27th & 29th May TICKETS: signmynight.com/69c3d8cba0a7020d2b1710bc/a-night-with-benjamin-louche?fbclid=IwY2xjawRqoR1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF2REw1bmpUaWJPbTVxZ3pZc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmygWkB31P2idDavvgbGAx81i8HIhcX4zToUQeZTFKvml4fldatCutbD6pr5_aem_9NgBDAHvv5Hy0xZtx64uzg

Dinner time listening in the Louche/Thorne household tonight: The Frenz Experiment by The Fall

Sunday night in the Louche/Thorne household is MYSTERY MOVIE* night! TONIGHT: Minority Report (Paramount) * a film we've already seen picked at random

Saturday in the Louche/Thorne household means HORROR MOVIE ROULETTE! Whistle (rent/buy via Prime) Following a personal tragedy, Chrys joins a new school, however, when she’s allocated the locker of a recently deceased student, she finds strange object within, something that will cause death to stalk her and her new friends… This reminded me a lot of 2024’s Tarot, in that it’s yet another trash popcorn wannabe franchise that steals liberally from the Final Destination series (as well as from the infinitely superior Smile 2) while simultaneously fundamentally misunderstanding its central gimmick. I’m sure there’s a reasonably decent horror film that could be made from that gimmick, but this isn’t it. It plays like young adult fiction, or even a Goosebumps (reminding me also of the terribly limp and anaemic Clown in a Cornfield), you’ve pretty much seen all of the set-pieces before and while this kind of fare is never going to be a classic, this one fails to even manage to crawl towards even passingly engaging. #SNARKLYDIDSOYOUDONTHAVETO (archived reviews can be found on Facebook by searching Through A Glass Snarkly)

Saturday in the Louche/Thorne household means HORROR MOVIE ROULETTE! Compulsión (Prime) Esther suspects her boyfriend of infidelity, however, the truth she finds is so much worse… This starts fairly well, and with an intriguing supernatural gimmick to get the narrative going, and indeed to get the main character into the story itself, however, this is then entirely abandoned (and never referenced) as the film stumbles into cliché after cliché, getting increasingly stupid with every hackneyed box it ticks. Tackling clichés and genre staples is often a good thing, they can be subverted, the audience wrongfooted, and the whole thing given an air of originality and unpredictability; nothing of the kind is in evidence here. It’s just the same old same old: the bad guy brutalises (mostly) women, characters behave in stupid ways to prolong the story, and the dénouement is as thin as it is dumb as it is predictable. #SNARKLYDIDSOYOUDONTHAVETO (archived reviews can be found on Facebook by searching Through A Glass Snarkly)

Saturday in the Louche/Thorne household means HORROR MOVIE ROULETTE! Gateway (Prime) When a small group of criminals find an abandoned house to grow drugs and so pay back the money they owe, they discover a mysterious locked room… Admirably low of budget, and with a simple if effective premise that suits this, the film is shot well and has a keen sense of atmosphere and mounting dread, chiefly due to the measured camera work and ominous sound design / score. The issues however come from the pacing and the performances, both of which suffer from an almost total lack of dynamics. The characters are almost all gruff, intense men, all doing their best to act as serious as possible and seldom, if ever, does this change, feeling horribly one-note, leaving us without anyone to care about or identify with, and lacking credibility. Ditto the pacing, which is slow (and nothing wrong with that) but which, like the performances, pretty much never changes, never accelerates to add tension, or slows to allow reflection. As such, the monotone nature of the thing scuppers any chance its ingeniously simple central gimmick has of landing any of the narrative swings it takes, thus leaving the viewer unable to connect or invest in what happens. #SNARKLYDIDSOYOUDONTHAVETO #DONTTRUSTROTTENTOMATOES (archived reviews can be found on Facebook by searching Through A Glass Snarkly)