Cathy Leaves
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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 ( 774 )
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Random Mixtape - Crazy, Crazy Times
waax | fade. the thermals | st. rosa and the swallows. placebo | try better next time. the butchies | it's over. david boring | men. poliça | violence. the... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: September.
Non-Fiction: Daniel Stashower: American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper.Elvia Wilk: Death By Landscape.Fiction: R.F. Read more
Posted on 30 September 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – We Thought We Made It up Because We Had To.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x03 Border. We have spent a few episodes now sidelining the true horrors of Gilead, with the exception of Lydia’s attempt to place Esther... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – Whose Blood is That?
The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x01 Morning.Why does it matter whose fault it is? So that I can hate the right person? What good is that? Read more
Posted on 22 September 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - When is She Going to Get What She Deserves?
The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x02 Ballet. What a time to think about the meaning of prescribed national mourning and the pomp of a heavily choreographed and expensive... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: August.
Fiction: Silvia Moreno-Garcia: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Sarah Thankam Mathews: All This Could Be Different.Paul Tremblay: The Pallbearers Club. Belinda... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – I Want to Remember My Past.
Westworld: 4x08 Que Será, Será.It is time for one last game. A dangerous game with the highest of stakes. Survival or extinction. A few episodes ago, Bernard... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – We Could Save Ourselves.
Westworld: 4x07 Metanoia.I mentioned Person of Interest’s If-Then-Else a little while ago, as a note of comparison to what Bernard is experiencing in this seaso... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – Saving the World Makes for Strange Bedfellows.
Westworld: 4x06 Fidelity.How can anyone resist a system that is as absolute as Charlotte Hale’s? We have only seen the one city that is under her control, but... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: July.
Non-Fiction: Hampton Sides: In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette.Lennard Bickel: Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – Look What You’ve Made Me Do.
Westworld: 4x05 Zhuangzi.William: Am I really playing a part in it or am I just the sum total of my code? Am I just fooling myself, like you?Charlotte has... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - What Happens When This War is Over?
Westworld: 4x04 Generation Loss. Welcome to my world. I haven’t really asked the question about how these three pieces – Caleb and Maeve, Stubbs and Bernard,... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - You’re in Our World.
Westworld: 4x03 Années Folles.Bernard has spent the past seven years in the Sublime, but instead of settling for his best life, enjoying a paradise of his own... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – I Am an Infinitely Adaptable Machine, Darling.
Westworld: 4x02 Well Enough Alone.It has been satisfying how quickly this fourth season of Westworld shares its secrets, instead of building them all up until... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – It Will Be Written in Stone. Forever.
Westworld: 4x01 The Auguries.Westworld is an incredibly complex story, with multitudes of characters who have undergone several transformations. Read more
Posted on 18 July 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
To Boldly Go...
Molly: NASA may be changing, Margo, but space remains an unrelenting bitch.In the first episode of For All Mankind’s third season, which has now reached the... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: June
Non-Fiction: Louisa Lim: Indelible City. Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong.Linda Villarosa: Under the Skin. The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Irma Vep
In 1996, French film director and film critic for the Cahiers du cinema Olivier Assayas, fresh off the success of his first film Cold Water, which was screened... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links: 23/6/22
Politics:Russia's invasion of Ukraine is now in its fourth month, with no end in sight. It looks likely that Ukraine's candidate status will be approved by the... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: May.
Non-Fiction: Apsley Cherry-Garrard: The Worst Journey in the World. Francis Spufford: I May Be Some Time.Fiction: Kate Atkinson: Life After Life. Kate... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO