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 ( 781 )
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Links 25/2/15
Politics: If ISIS is claiming to be Islamic, they will have to construct their claim for legitimacy and their law on precedence, but how they understand that... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 18/2/15
Politics: The Atlantic with a thorough and insightful analysis of ISIS' ideology (and goes back to the profound question of whether ISIS is a rational... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black - It’s Like Coming Home After a Long Trip.
Orange is the New Black: 2x06 You Also Have a Pizza.OITNB’s Valentine’s Day episode fits in well with one of the major points of last season. Read more
Posted on 14 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent – You Treat Me Like a Stranger.
Transparent: 1x07 Symbolic Exemplar.Ali: So if there is no god, then honestly, everything we do, no one sees it.Ali, as a teenager, refusing to have her Bat... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 12/2/15
Politics: The Atlantic with a report from the "largely forgotten" Libyan civil war.CSIS with an analysis of Ukraine's future, "escalation dominance", the... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Horror Starts at Home
“I'll kill the monster when it comes. I'll smash its head in.” "For the first time in my life, I saw the place for what it was: lethal, shaped and honed for... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 4/2/15
Politics: The London Review of Books on the election victory of Syriza, a left-wing party that has recently appointed a Marxist economic as minister of... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 25/01/15 Single-minded
Pop Culture: Abbi and Ilana from Broad City interview Carrie, Corin and Janet from S-K, The Quietus interviews Janet Weiss, and Vulture reviews No Cities to... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent - Is There Anything You Want to Say to Me?
Transparent: 1x06 The Wilderness.Maura: This is my family. Leonard, I am so sorry. This is my fault. I should have called you. Honey, I should have taken you ou... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Serien Des Jahres
Best new show: TransparentA father decides to come out to her children and live the life she never could. It affects each of the three profoundly, and... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: December.
Non-Fiction: Michael Harris: The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection.Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Filme Des Jahres
Her (2013)Short Term 12 (2013)FrankVi är bästPrideIda (2013)The BabadookThe Grand Budapest HotelThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1Regarding Susan SontagBonus... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Musik Des Jahres
I don't think it would make much sense for me to compile this list and not mention that my favourite band of all times has released a re-issued collector's box... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year
Non-Fiction: Ta-Nahisi Coates: The Case for Reparations.Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist.Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace. The Road to 1914.Lawrence... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black – It’s the Least We Can Do.
Orange is the New Black: 2x05 Low Self Esteem City.Belonging is essential in Litchfield. It provides context, protection, friendship, community. Read more
Posted on 14 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Torture
But most poignantly, McCain spoke of his own five-and-a-half-year captivity in Vietnam to argue that torture fails to yield credible information. Read more
Posted on 11 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent - No More Secrets.
Transparent: 1x05 Wedge. Wedge, as an episode that is in the middle of the first season of the show, feels like it mostly serves to set up things for later. Read more
Posted on 09 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtapes - All That I've Been Thinking of is Maybe That You Might.
Heartbreak rides for free by Yvan Favre [via tumblr]jessie ware | say you love me. ólafur arnalds | brim. trentemøller | the dream (feat. low). jean grae |... Read more
Posted on 09 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 05/12/14 Short
Politics: ISIS has entered Egypt, through an Egyptian militant movement that started to operate after President Mubarak's overthrow which has now pledged... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
Are you, are youComing to the treeWhere I told you to run,So we'd both be free.The Hanging TreeNo one knows where the ladder goesYou're gonna lose what you... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO