Cathy Leaves
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Cathy Leaves' Cellar Door Blog
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Reviews of current television shows, Orphan Black, The Good Wife, Orange is the New Black, and complete reviews of Bomb Girls, Skins, Popular, Caprica, My So-Called Life, Dollhouse. Pop Culture and Politics.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 781 )
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The Handmaid’s Tale – You Shouldn’t Be Here.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 4x06 Vows.What an episode. It switches between when June moved out of her shared apartment with Moira and everything that happens after... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – I Need You to Take Care of Yourself.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 4x05 Chicago.Commander Lawrence said it only a few episodes ago. Gilead’s pretence of caring about the children most of all is nothing but ... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - I Won’t Let Anything Happen to You.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 4x04 Milk.I’ll be thinking about June’s promise to Janine a lot, which she gives her as they are riding inside a milk transport towards... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – There is No Light Here.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 4x03 The Crossing. Commander Lawrence: Gilead doesn’t care about children. Gilead cares about power. In a review, recently, someone made th... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – It’s Complicated.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 4x02 NightshadeGilead makes it really hard to be good. In Gilead, June and the other women on the farm are preparing to move on, since thei... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – Now There is Tending to Be Done.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 4x01 Pigs.My world can’t be small. Not now. In our world, it has been almost two years since the previous season of The Handmaid’s Tale. Read more
Posted on 01 May 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: April.
Non-Fiction: Melissa Febos: Girlhood.Fiction: Sarah Gailey: Magic For Liars.Camilla Sten: The Lost Village. Seth Dickinson: The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.Elizabeth... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March
Fiction: Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire.Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace.Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. Sylvain Neuvel: A... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - Do i Get Callous Or Do i Stay Tender
goat girl | the crack. dry cleaning | dog proposal. julien baker | relative fiction. the notwist | exit strategy to myself. faithless feat. suli breaks | poetry... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
I Care a Lot
, by J Blakeson, came out in Australian cinemas a few weeks ago. Last week, in the midst of a profound government crisis, the Australian Prime Minister... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February.
Non-Fiction:Molly Wizenberg: The Fixed Stars.Beth Macy: Dopesick.Stacy Schiff: The Witches. Salem, 1692.Jeff Gunn: The Road to Jonestown. Jim Jones and Peoples... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Courtney Summers' The Project
Last year, I was reading Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls, a collection of essays about the American, and specifically pop-cultural, obsession with fetishizing young... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
No, You Be Careful.
We rarely see films about women with singular dedications to one thing only, so intense and focused that every aspect of their life is tuned to just one goal. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress
Non-Fiction: Talia Lavin: Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.Aileen Moreton-Robinson: Talkin' up to the white woman: Indigenous... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: January.
Non-Fiction: Legacy Russell: Glitch Feminism. Aileen Moreton-Robinson: Talkin' up to the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism in Australia.Tyson... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Expanse, Season Five
He’d pretended kindness so well she would doubt herself, make herself wonder if she was the one being unreasonable, irrational, all the things he implied she... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Day One
"Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
American Dream(s)
There is so much heartbreak in Miss Juneteenth and in Minari, but they are both portrays of the United States, of what it means to chase a dream with limited... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
An Attempted Coup.
The day after two Democratic wins in the Georgia run-off election with gives the Democratic Party control of both houses, this. Read more
Posted on 07 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Ellie & Abbie (and Oh No, Why Did It Have to Have Teeth in the Title)
Monica Zanetti’s Ellie Abbie came out shortly before Christmas, but is not really a Christmas movie – but it’s difficult to think about this film and not... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO