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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"This is a bitter irony. That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Bad//Dreems - Jack (on Hoo-Ha!) I took a walk down to the lighthouse todayLooking for a plaque there that should sayThat fourteen were massacred here on this... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: September.
Non-Fiction: David Stahel: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Antony Beevor: Stalingrad. The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943.Fiction: S.L. Huang:... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Barbie
It is literally impossible to be a woman. I don’t think it is possible to write about a film as broadly successful as Barbie (commercially successful, but also... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: August.
Non-Fiction: Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air. Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven.Valerian Ivanovich Albanov: In the Land of White Death. An Epic Story of... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Deadloch
When I moved to Australia almost ten years ago now, some of the first stories I was told about my new home were about the horrendous crimes that had been... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 10/8/23
Politics: Russia is turning food into a weapon in its war against Ukraine: it has announced a naval blockade of the countries ports, destroyed tons of cereals... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: July.
Non-Fiction: Paul Watson: Ice Ghosts. The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition. Jennifer Niven: The Ice Master. The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk.Beth... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - in the Middle of Existence We Make Way
cable ties | silos. lucy dacus | night shift. water from your eyes | track five. yaeji | what we drew. angel olsen | holding on. feeble little horse | chores.... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: June.
Non-Fiction: Darrell Hartman: Battle of Ink and Ice. David Roberts: Alone on the Ice.Fiction: Megan Abbott: Beware the Woman.Zaina Arafat: You Exist Too Much.... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Showing Up
Watching Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, and Michelle Williams’ Lizzy attempting to fit her art into a routine that kept being interrupted by the minutiae of life... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Natten Har Øjne / Attachment
I think it is fitting that a film in which nothing is at it seems, a horror film, is for at least half of its run-time more accurately a very cute and moving... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Blue Jean
Set in Newcastle in 1988, Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean is an extraordinary film. It centres on the titular Jean (an outstanding Rosy McEwen), a gym teacher, who... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: May.
Non-Fiction: Richard Parry: Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition.R/B Mertz: Burning Butch. A Memoir.Fiction: Liv... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - The Wilderness Chose.
Yellowjackets: 2x09 Storytelling.Shauna: IT was just us. Lottie: Is there a difference?This whole season of Yellowjackets has been about the question of... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - They’ve Changed Because of Her.
Yellowjackets: 2x08 It Chooses.Lottie: And now we have to give it what it wants.Does a hunt that has no violence feed anyone?Lottie, after Shauna’s beating,... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - I Think It’s Time We Woke Up.
Yellowjackets: 2x07 Burial.Burial is as close to a light-hearted episode of Yellowjackets we’ll ever get, and it still features some of the grimmest bits this... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - It Was a Part of Us.
Yellowjackets: 2x06 Qui.Natalie: We did so much fucked up shit out there. Maybe it was to survive but I don’t think we deserved to.Lottie: The power of that... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Dead Ringers
It doesn’t take long to realise that Dead Ringers is one of the best self-contained seasons of television in a long time. It is, even in its hardest to watch... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: April.
Non-Fiction: Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock.David Grann: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.Andrea Pitzer:... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO