Cathy Leaves

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• Des Teufels Bad

  

  Ich wollt einfach weg von der Welt. I wanted to be gone from the world.Without having read about the film and what inspired it first, I found it incredibly... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - You Only Hold Yourself to the Things You Do.

  

  caribou | broke my heart. two shell | come to terms. floating points | key103. mabe fratti | kravitz. laura marling | devil's resting place. kim deal | coast.... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 10/12/24

  

  Politics:After 13 years of civil war, Bashar al-Assad's reign over Syria collapsed this week after the rapid advance of rebel forces over less than two weeks,... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Non-Fiction: Valerie Bauerlein: The Devil At This Elbow. Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty.Hallie Rubenhold: The Five: The Untold Lives of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  "White supremacists are angry; those who claim that title and those who do not but who act in the interests of white supremacy. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Non-Fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Message.Gary J. Bass: Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia. Fiction: Rivers Solomon: Model... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Wednesday: Civil War

  

  Does Civil War count as a horror film? I was going to write about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (for which Demi Moore certainly deserves all the laurels),... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Wednesday: Les Chambres Rouges

  

  In Alfred Tennyson’s 19th century lyrical ballad “The Lady of Shalott”, Elaine of Astolat lives in a tower near the legendary castle and court of King Arthur. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Wednesday: Cuckoo

  

  Watching Cuckoo as someone who grew up one country away from the Bavarian Alpine village this film is set in (and used to holiday in places that look pretty... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Some (un)collected Thoughts on Industry

  

  I spent the last month catching up with Industry, just in time to watch the final episodes of the third season as they came out. I've been ambivalent about the... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September.

  Fiction: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville: The Book of Elsewhere.Kate Atkinson: Death at the Sign of the Rook. Rachel Kushner: Creation Lake.Åsa Avdic: The... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - What Else Could Take Shape?

  

  palehound | the clutch. frances quinlan | another season. beth gibbons | reaching out. ale hop laura robles | el fenómeno de la niña. peggy gou | your art.... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Fiction: Nazlı Koca: The Applicant.Ed O'Loughlin: Minds of Winter. Dominique Fortier: On the Proper Use of Stars.Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky Was Here.... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Endless Cycles of Adaptation

  In the late 2000s, my mother was relearning how to speak after a brain haemorrhage. I had just moved back home to help with her care, and we spent a lot of... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Janet Planet

  

  Watching Annie Baker’s Janet Planet, I was thinking about all the other films I’ve watched recently that rely on the perspective of children to tell their... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• America's Dad

  "Walz has been an outspoken supporter of abortion rights, one of Democrats’ top issues this election. And unlike President Biden, a Roman Catholic who previousl... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July.

  Non-Fiction: James Belich: The World the Plague Made. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe.Louise Young: Japan's total empire. Manchuria and the culture of... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 29/7/24

  

  Politics: What a two weeks of politics it has been! The failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the Republican convention in which Ohio Senator JD Vance... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• “uncharted Waters in the Days Ahead”

  Joe Biden has withdrawn from his presidential re-election race and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris to take his place at the top of their party’s ticket, a... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  I've been having a difficult time thinking about US politics in the run-up to the election. Just one recurring thought: the greatest weakness of the debate is... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO