Beneficial Shock!

"Unconventional Cinematic Adventures." Beneficial Shock! is a fully illustrated movie magazine. It explores often overlooked or marginalized cinema and provides a platform for brave visual storytelling. 

Issue #10: The Journeys and Destinations Issue

Integration, assimilation, and reclamation in "Sinners". Back on the road with the Blues Brothers. Expression and obsession in the Brutalist, Grief and insecurity in Frances Ha, and Personal Shopper. Lovers on the run tropes. An abridged chronology of psychedelics onscreen, movies memories, movies maps, and more.

Bristol UK, 17x24cm, 96 pages, annual, 2025