Cathy Leaves

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• Links: 13/11/23

  [...] in the wake of September 11, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon has taken advantage of the so-called "war on terror" to ratchet up the colonial... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes – I’m Sad Because I Feel Nothing.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x03 Pegasus Girl.“I wanna go home. But there is no home.”I felt deflated after the second episode of Echoes because it didn’t really... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes - Whoever Made Me, Made Her.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes - 1x02 JulesWhat if the terrible things we lived through didn’t make me better?I’ve been thinking about what made Orphan Black work so well... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes – If I Have to Find out Who I Was to Protect Who I Am…

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes – 1x01 PilotBefore diving into Orphan Black: Echoes, six years after the end of the original show, I’d like to remember how it all started. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 6/10/23

  Politics: But never again is a feeble phrase. The world forgets, just like it has forgotten Bosnia. The nevers have been worn out and abandoned; the again... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Rainbow Chan - Seven Sisters Let your glory lift you up andSave you from the King of HellCarry you to paradise withSeven Sisters by your side[part of the song... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Non-Fiction: Lucy Dawidowicz: The War Against the Jews. 1933-1945.Christopher R. Browning: Ordinary Men. Peter Caddick-Adams: 1945. Victory in the West.... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Coloured Stone - Black Boy (on Koonibba Rock) A shy Black boy, you came to the cityTo learn about life and now his people lost their livesHis parents died when... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Anatomie D'une Chute / Anatomy of a Fall

  

  You have to invent your belief.In a central moment towards the end of the film, Marge (Jehnny Beth, from the great band Savages) talks to Daniel (Milo Machado... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Fall of the House of Usher

  

  In the 2021 Danny Strong adaptation of the non-fiction book Dopesick about the opioid crisis and the Sackler family’s involvement in it, Michael Stuhlbarg... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  "This is a bitter irony. That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Bad//Dreems - Jack (on Hoo-Ha!) I took a walk down to the lighthouse todayLooking for a plaque there that should sayThat fourteen were massacred here on this... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September.

  Non-Fiction: David Stahel: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Antony Beevor: Stalingrad. The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943.Fiction: S.L. Huang:... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Barbie

  

  It is literally impossible to be a woman. I don’t think it is possible to write about a film as broadly successful as Barbie (commercially successful, but also... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Non-Fiction: Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air. Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven.Valerian Ivanovich Albanov: In the Land of White Death. An Epic Story of... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Deadloch

  

  When I moved to Australia almost ten years ago now, some of the first stories I was told about my new home were about the horrendous crimes that had been... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 10/8/23

  Politics: Russia is turning food into a weapon in its war against Ukraine: it has announced a naval blockade of the countries ports, destroyed tons of cereals... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July.

  

  Non-Fiction: Paul Watson: Ice Ghosts. The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition. Jennifer Niven: The Ice Master. The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk.Beth... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - in the Middle of Existence We Make Way

  

  cable ties | silos. lucy dacus | night shift. water from your eyes | track five. yaeji | what we drew. angel olsen | holding on. feeble little horse | chores.... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: June.

  Non-Fiction: Darrell Hartman: Battle of Ink and Ice. David Roberts: Alone on the Ice.Fiction: Megan Abbott: Beware the Woman.Zaina Arafat: You Exist Too Much.... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO