Cathy Leaves

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• Midsommar

  

  I went into Midsommar by Ari Aster with no preconception or spoilers about what was about to happen. I think that's a good way to watch the film the first... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Formal

  "Meanwhile, the House voted on Thursday to make its impeachment inquiry formal.The measure passed 232 to 196 with no Republican support. Two Democrats joined... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Fiction: Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation. Jeff VanderMeer: Authority. Jeff VanderMeer: Acceptance.Becky Chambers: To Be Taught, If Fortunate. Ann Leckie: Ancillar... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Campaign Update, October 2019

  Much has changed since the first debates of June. Elizabeth Warren has closed in on front-runner Joe Biden and is leading some polls. Warren is very successfull... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - and My Heart Wants the Ugliest Things.

  

  sleater-kinney | the future is here. angel olsen | all mirrors. carla dal forno | no trace. vagabon | water me down. shura | religion (you can lay your hands... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• On the Difficulty of Having Powered Best Friends.

  

  I’ve been thinking about the friendship fault lines in the competing universes of Marvel’s Jessica Jones and DC’s Supergirl, and how weird it is to watch the tw... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September

  

  Non-Fiction: Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch. Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution.Kate Zambreno: Heroines.Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Wilder Girls

  

  In Rory Power's Wilder Girls, a mysterious illness ominously named the Tox has taken hold on an isolated island which hosts Raxter, an all-girls school. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• “Here Am I. Send Me!”

  

  Unbelievable begins with an hour-long episode that may count among the darkest and most hopeless hours of television that I have watched this year. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Non-Fiction: Jia Tolentino: Trick Mirror. Reflections on Self-delusion.Fiction: Samantha Shannon: The Priory of the Orange Tree.Riley Redgate: The Final... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – This Can’t Have Been for Nothing.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 3x13 Mayday.And the Lord said, 'I have seen my people in bondage, and I have heard their cry. I know their sorrows and I am come to... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I’m Proud of You.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 3x12 Sacrifice.What happens to kind people in Gilead? How can anyone preserve a shred of human dignity in a regime that is built on... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – We All Could Have Done Something.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 3x11 Liars.It’s been a very, very long three years, and there have been many moments throughout those three seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July

  Films: My Days of Mercy (2017, Tali Shalom Ezer).Fiction: Stephen King: Insomnia.Stephen King: Bag of Bones. Stephen King: Needful Things. Rory Power: Wilder... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - How Long Did You Think It Would Be Before It Came for You?

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 3x10 Witness.Gilead is escalating towards something. There are more executions, stricter rules, and the changes that June saw in... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – How Will You Honour Your Daughters?

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 3x09 Heroic.Heroic is an outstanding episode, carried entirely by Elisabeth Moss acting in a rare bottle episode that takes place almost... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Que Sera, Sera.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 3x08 Unfit.Janene: You’re being so mean.June: She got someone executed, she doesn’t feel sorry about it, she should have kept her fucking... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I Think We’re Good.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 3x07 Under His Eye.That's where the pain comes inLike a second skeletonTrying to fit beneath the skinI can't fit the feelings in, noEvery... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: June

  Non-Fiction: Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing. Resisting the Attention Economy.Natasha Lennard: Being Numerous. Essays on Non-Fascist Life.Fiction: Stephen King:... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Nature of Political Charisma

  "Warren absolutely came alive when she started taking questions from her audience. Explaining incredibly complex policy problems in a perfectly coherent way... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO