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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Runaways - I Say We Have to Think About Each Other.
Runaways: 1x10 Hostile.The best way to think about the two separate arcs on this show is the contrast between how the parents of the Pride and the kids of the... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Ground Below
Two incredible essays, to start off 2018: In the months before, traveling around the American South for work, between Louisiana and South Carolina, I’d had who... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Runaways - If There’s Nothing Left for Us to Do Then Let’s Dance.
Runaways: 1x09 Doomsday.In the historical excavation of how everyone has come to this point, what the Runaways (who have finally at least discussed this cool... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Runaways – I’m Still Here, and I Deserve the Truth.
Runaways: 1x08 Tsunami.I keep coming back to this quote from the first season of Luther, where Alice is still weighing Luther up, weighing up her knowledge abou... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: December.
Non-Fiction: Malcolm Harris: Kids These Days. Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of War. An Oral History of... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Shows of the Year
Best new show: The Bold TypeThis top spot could have gone to Sweet/Vicious, a short-lived television show about the impact of rape culture on women who try to... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Films of the Year
Moonlight (2016)Get OutThelmaL'avenir (2016)I Am Not Your Negro (2016)Personal Shopper (2016)Christine (2016)Mudbound Wonder WomanBonus shout-outs:... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Music of the Year
Albums: Sampha - Process.Vagabon - Infinite Worlds.Cable Ties - Cable Ties.Angel Olsen - Phases.Cayetana - New Kind of Normal.Priests - Nothing Feels... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year
Non-Fiction: Audre Lorde: Zami. A New Spelling of My Name.James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time.James Gleick: Time Travel.Olivia Laing: Lonely City.Olivia Laing:... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Runaways – Enjoy It While You Still Can.
Runaways: 1x07 Refraction.Seven episodes into Runaways, I’m still not sure what the focus on the parents adds to the show. It’s hit and mix – hit, when it... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Runaways – The Devil Will Have His Due.
Runaways: 1x06.It does raise the stakes that Runaways in its television adaptation shows more of the parents, their backstory, how they ended up here, but even... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Thelma
Maybe it speaks to something being in the air in 2016 and 2017 that Joachim Trier's Thelma is temporally so close to Julia Ducournau's Raw. Read more
Posted on 12 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - Loneliness is Powerful.
Joanne Nam - My Lovesmount kimbie feat king krule | blue train lines. sassy 009 | feel me. TOPS | cutlass cruiser. mega bog | t.v. m.a.c. hoops | rules. slowdiv... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Runaways
Spoilers for episodes 1 to 5There are so many points at which to depart on this journey. From those first five episodes of a show that has been years in the... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 9/12/17
Politics: So many things, so horrifyingly hard to keep up with things. But first of, here's Sean Kelly on Marriage Equality becoming law in Australia: But... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Godless
There aren’t too many illusions still intact about the romance of the frontier in 2017. It has been made abundantly clear that there is a stark difference... Read more
Posted on 06 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Smerz - Have Fun.[via Dazed]Calypso Rose feat. Manu Chao - Leave Me Alone (Yaeji Remix)[via gorilla vs. Read more
Posted on 02 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: November.
Fiction: Naomi Alderman: The Power. Naomi Alderman: The Lessons.Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties. Jenny Zhang: Sour Heart. Emily Skrutskie: The... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Alias Grace
Instead of a proper review of Sarah Polley's excellent adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel, something different here. I think the story of Alias Grace is... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading Notes: Naomi Alderman's The Power
It took a few days after finishing this novel to come to grasps with how I felt about it, in particular because there was a point, maybe 150 pages in, where I... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO