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 ( 809 )
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Reading List: June.
Non-Fiction: Hampton Sides: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.Hampton Sides: Ghost Soldiers... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
I Saw the TV Glow
They stop attacking if you don't think about them / The longer you wait, the closer you get to suffocating.Since watching I Saw the TV Glow, I’ve been thinking... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links: 12/06/24
Politics: The UN has added Israel "to the global list of states and armed groups who have committed violations against children". Read more
Posted on 12 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Pamyo/Exhuma
2024 feels like an interesting year to think about Godzilla. The big scaly boy has been present for a few years now in the American Monsterverse series of... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
We Are Lady Parts
Stuck in the master’s house with the master’s tools. In the penultimate episode of We Are Lady Parts, it feels like the titular band has finally fulfilled its... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: May.
Non-Fiction: Judith Butler: Antigone's Claim.Caroline Finkel: Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Adam Shatz: The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionar... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin
The original Pretty Little Liars, based on the books by Sara Shepard, ran from 2010 to 2017. On a recent rewatch, what struck me was that it was so easy to trac... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - Can't You Come Back?
yeule | anthem for a seventeen year-old girl. mount kimbie | shipwreck. princ€ss | crying. taroug | jewels i. sonic youth | becuz. yeah yeah yeahs | no no no.... Read more
Posted on 16 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Saltburn
"I don't think you're a spider, you're a moth. Quiet, harmless, drawn to shiny things, banging up against a window, and begging to get in. Well, you've made you... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: April.
Non-Fiction: David Hunt: Girt. David Hunt: True Girt. David Hunt: Girt Nation.Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves. The Improbable Birth of Australia.... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Fallout, Or the Least Bad Place to Be After the Apocalypse
Having watched a lot of post-apocalyptic television over the last few years, the thing that keeps popping into my mind again and again is the question of how,... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links: 15/4/24
Politics: Back at the end of March, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It was passed with 14 votes in... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March
Non-Fiction: Sara Wheeler: Cherry.Leslie Jamison: Splinters.Lyz Lenz: This American Ex-Wife. Fiction: Elizabeth Hand: Waking the Moon.Nick Fuller Googins: The... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - Only Marks and Only Flaws.
warpaint | bees. gossip | tough. sleater-kinney | six mistakes. laura marling | devil's spoke. burial | boy sent from above. four tet | 31 bloom. jlin feat.... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Drive-Away Dolls
In the 2007 comedy Itty Titty Bitty Committee by Jamie Babbit, a group of feminist activists disappointed by their lack of reach (in a devastating scene, they... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Zone of Interest
There are many scenes that will stay with me for a long time in this film. Glazer places cameras in the reconstruction of the house in which Auschwitz commandan... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February.
Non-Fiction: Kyle Chayka: Filterworld. How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Roger Dean Kiser: The White House Boys. An American Tragedy. Gilbert King: Beneath a... Read more
Posted on 29 February 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Servant
While thinking about Servant’s fantastic three seasons, I’ve been considering the strangeness of how all three characters Lauren Ambrose has played regularly... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress
Non-Fiction:Gilbert King: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Fiction: Andrea Barrett: The Voyage of the... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
More Horrors in the Ice
I wouldn’t say that The Last Winter is a particularly great film. I watched it based on a list of recommendations for if you’re enjoying the new season of True... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO