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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Feel Good / Trigonometry
My experience of watching the original run of The L Word, Ilene Chaiken’s six season monster, mirrors that of many other people: it was novel to watch a show... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – I Understand the Nature of My Reality.
Westworld: 3x02 The Winter Line. In the first episode of this new reality, we have learned that Dolores is seeking the inventor of a supercomputer called The... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March
Fiction: Holly Throsby: Goodwood.Joanna Kavenna: Zed. Chana Porter: The Seep.Nell Zink: Nicotine.Nell Zink: Mislaid.Jaye Robin Browin: The Meaning of Birds.Elle... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - You May Not Believe in a Higher Power, but Your Mind Was Built To.
Westworld: 3x01 Parce Domine.To start off with, perhaps a paragraph about the nature of television in 2020 – no, not the more obvious thing, but about how... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - Time to Take a Ride, Time to Take It in a Midnight Eye.
John Balkwill - Bright Windy Night [via tumblr]sonic youth | dirty boots. garbage | cup of coffee. soccer mommy | cool. atlantic oceans | nuncora. caribou |... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February
Non-Fiction: Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight For a Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.Emma Copley Eisenberg: The Third... Read more
Posted on 29 February 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
High Fidelity
I went into High Fidelity without knowing much about this new adaptation and with a fleeting memory of both Nick Hornby’s novel and the 2000 film version... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Birds of Prey. It's 2020, the Joker, or, as Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie, at the time of watching this film in an Australian cinema also starring in a second... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: January.
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 31 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading Notes: William Gibson's Agency
Less than thirty pages into William Gibson’s novel Agency, the second part of his Jackpot-trilogy which started with The Peripheral, and I’ve underlined so... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Foreign Policy Glimpse
This week has brought new developments in the impeachment trial, mainly via a leaked excerpt from former national security adviser John Bolton's upcoming book. Read more
Posted on 28 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Ready Or Not
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu
We're in the same place. Exactly the same place. Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a painter and daughter of a painter, is sent to a remote island off the coast of... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: December.
Non-Fiction: Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House. A Memoir.Alexis Coe: Alice+Freda Forever. A Murder in Memphis.Gabrielle Chen: Rusted Off: Why Country... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Music of the Year
Albums: Stella Donnelly - Beware Of The Dogs.Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold.Solange Knowles - When I Get Home.Kate Tempest - The Book of Traps and... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Shows of the Year
Best new show: UnbelievableEuphoriaI don't want to speculate if this is a realist look at what it means to be under 18 in 2019, and I don't think that's the... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year
Non-Fiction: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.Leslie Jamison: The Recovering. Intoxication and Its Aftermath.Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Films of the Year
Leave No Trace (2018)Portrait de la jeune fille en feuFast Color (2018)Captain MarvelMidsommarTransit (2018)The Rider (2017)Pokémon Detective PikachuMirai... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Expanse - Table of Contents
Season OneSeason Four:New TerraJetsamSubductionRetrogradeOppressorDisplacementA Shot in the DarkThe One-Eyed ManSaeculumCibola Burn Read more
Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Expanse - I Think We Need Each Other.
The Expanse: 4x10 Cibola Burn.One of the great advantages of being a major power in the universe of the Expanse is that nothing truly catastrophic ever happens. Read more
Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO