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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Orphan Black: Echoes - The Best Thing That We Can Do is Just Let Go.
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x10 We Will Come Again.I’ll be okay. Oh Jules! The conclusion of the first season of Orphan Black: Echoes, which has not even aired yet i... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Royal Hotel
Kitty Green’s The Assistant threw Julia Garner’s character into a film production company in which a man, never fully seen, had free reign to abuse women, with... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: November.
Non-Fiction: Gershom Gorenberg: The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977.Samuel Moyn: Not Enough. Human Rights in an Unequal... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes – I Finally Feel Like I Belong Somewhere.
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x09 Attracting Awful Things.Who am I? Who are we?I like how Echoes, although shaky at times in terms of general consistency, has... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes - You Don’t Know Who You Are.
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x08 The Paradox of Joyce.I think a lot of this season of Echoes comes back to choices and responsibilities, especially what it means to... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes - You Have Always Been So Afraid of Losing Things.
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x07 The Dog's Honest Truth.Eleanor: You have always been so afraid of losing things. Of losing people. That’s what makes life life. That’... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - I Made You, and I’m Responsible for You.
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x06 Unless You Trusted Someone.It’s me. I changed. I think it’s very interesting how Echoes delineates the morals around printing... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Roter Himmel / Afire
Leon (Thomas Schubert), a writer who found success with his first novel, travels to a holiday home near the Baltic Sea with his friend Felix (Langston Uibel)... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes - I Lost Her, and Then I Lost My Way.
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x05 Do I Know You?I have to believe that a world with her in it, even if it’s complicated, is better than a world without her. Read more
Posted on 16 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes - Do You Think We’re Happy?
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x04 It's All Coming Back.First you should know, you were made out of love.The mystery is unravelling fast in Echoes’ fourth episode. Read more
Posted on 14 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links: 13/11/23
[...] in the wake of September 11, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon has taken advantage of the so-called "war on terror" to ratchet up the colonial... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes – I’m Sad Because I Feel Nothing.
Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x03 Pegasus Girl.“I wanna go home. But there is no home.”I felt deflated after the second episode of Echoes because it didn’t really... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes - Whoever Made Me, Made Her.
Orphan Black: Echoes - 1x02 JulesWhat if the terrible things we lived through didn’t make me better?I’ve been thinking about what made Orphan Black work so well... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black: Echoes – If I Have to Find out Who I Was to Protect Who I Am…
Orphan Black: Echoes – 1x01 PilotBefore diving into Orphan Black: Echoes, six years after the end of the original show, I’d like to remember how it all started. Read more
Posted on 06 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links: 6/10/23
Politics: But never again is a feeble phrase. The world forgets, just like it has forgotten Bosnia. The nevers have been worn out and abandoned; the again... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Rainbow Chan - Seven Sisters Let your glory lift you up andSave you from the King of HellCarry you to paradise withSeven Sisters by your side[part of the song... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: October.
Non-Fiction: Lucy Dawidowicz: The War Against the Jews. 1933-1945.Christopher R. Browning: Ordinary Men. Peter Caddick-Adams: 1945. Victory in the West.... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Coloured Stone - Black Boy (on Koonibba Rock) A shy Black boy, you came to the cityTo learn about life and now his people lost their livesHis parents died when... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Anatomie D'une Chute / Anatomy of a Fall
You have to invent your belief.In a central moment towards the end of the film, Marge (Jehnny Beth, from the great band Savages) talks to Daniel (Milo Machado... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Fall of the House of Usher
In the 2021 Danny Strong adaptation of the non-fiction book Dopesick about the opioid crisis and the Sackler family’s involvement in it, Michael Stuhlbarg... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO