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 ( 779 )
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The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes Act Two in Progress
ACT TWO31/8/20This second act of the third book did something peculiar - taking a story that has been dark and sad for so long and somehow changing course... Read more
Posted on 01 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: August.
Fiction: Lindsay Ellis: Axiom's End. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: Starling Days. Celia Laskey: Under the Rainbow. Genevieve Hudson: Boys of Alabama.Alex White: A Big... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes (in Progress, Spoilers!)
It is finally here! I just finished Alex White's Salvagers trilogy and the second part of Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb trilogy, but nothing is closer to my heart... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
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"So often I had heard Americans say they wanted their country to be run like a business. In fact, this was one of the most common arguments advanced in favor... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
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I have been finding it very difficult to put any coherent thought together about anything that is happening in the world since February - not about Covid, not... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: July.
Non-Fiction: Akala: Natives. Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.Jenn Shapland: My Auto-Biography of Carson McCullers.Fiction: Junauda Petrus: The Stars and... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Girl with All the Gifts / Survivor Song
I’ve been thinking about zombie narratives and how they feel in July 2020, four months into COVID-19 and the disorienting reality of 2020. Read more
Posted on 22 July 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Assistant
The pivotal scene of Kitty Green’s The Assistant comes towards the end of the film, when Julia Garner’s Jane, after having spent most of the film quietly... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: June
Non-Fiction: Kate Zambreno: Screen Tests. Kate Zambreno: Drifts. Kate Zambreno: Heroines.Cathy Park Hong: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.Wendy... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - This is Just a Momentary Ripple in the Stream
Piero Dorazio - Ex Tempore II, 1963 [via tumblr]jessie ware | step into my life. martha and the muffins | echo beach. sonic youth | mary-christ. fischerspooner ... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Snowpiercer
We need to save our souls. What a time to watch Snowpiercer, the television adaptation of the 2014 Bong Joon Ho film – to watch the creators of Orphan Black... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: May.
Non-Fiction: Esmé Weijun Wang: The Collected Schizophrenias. Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics. Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.Olivia Laing:... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – There is Only One Real End. I Will Write This One Myself.
Westworld: 3x08 Crisis Theory.As a child, Engerraund Serac saw a nuclear bomb destroy the world that he knew. He has dedicated his life to building a machine... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - Her Pan is for Us to Die.
Westworld: 3x07 Passed Pawn.There are so many obvious references to Jonathan Nolan’s previous masterpiece, Person of Interest, in these final two episodes of th... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – This Isn’t Real.
Westworld: 3x06 DecoherenceAs we are progressing towards an all-out war between the factions that have emerged in this third season of Westworld, the most... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress
Non-Fiction: Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing. A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Read more
Posted on 03 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT -
Reading List: April
Non-Fiction: Joanne McNeil: Lurking. How A Person Became A User. Samra Habib: We Have Always Been Here. Diana B. Henriques: The Wizard of Lies. Bernie Madoff an... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – I Don’t Need to Know You.
It is one of those popcultural coincidences that this third season of Westworld has started just as Devs ended, and that this third season has at its centre a... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – What If Every Choice You Made Wasn’t a Choice at All?
Westworld: 3x04 The Mother of Exiles. The twist at the end of this episode isn’t much of a twist if you’ve paid attention to Dolores’ entire life. Read more
Posted on 19 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - I Remember What It’s Like to Be Me.
Westworld: 3x03 The Absence of Field. In a fieldI am the absenceof field.This isalways the case.Wherever I amI am what is missing. Read more
Posted on 13 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO