Cathy Leaves

LATEST ARTICLES ( 809 )

• Benedetta

  

  I think it’s a disservice to think of Paul Verhoeven’s film Benedetta as “loosely based” on Judith C. Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Picnic at Hanging Rock

  

  At the beginning of the six-episode adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock, a 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Natalie Dormer’s Mrs Appleyard is inspecting an estate o... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Non-Fiction: Barbara F. Walters: How Civil War Starts and How to Stop Them. Michelle Tea: Valencia.Jeanna Kadlec: Heretic. Fiction: Rebecca Netley: The... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Tár

  

  In the beginning of the film (fictional) composer/conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is on stage being interviewed by (actual) New Yorker journalist Adam... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Warrior Nun

  

  You’re contained. You’re a mystery. A labyrinth, walls within walls, and in the centre, a fire burning to be free. Late into the first season of Warrior Nun,... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 15/11/22

  Politics: The Democrats have managed to hold on to their majority in the Senate in the US midterm elections while the outcome in the House of Representatives... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I Hate This World.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 6x10 Safe.This season has been about the precarious shifting state of safety. June has escaped Gilead to Canada, where she is meant to be... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – So What’s Next?

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x09 Allegiance. There is such a comforting, popculturally induced promise to the rescue operation that June and Luke witness as they... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Non-Fiction: Hua Hsu: Stay True.Joe Vallese: It Came From the Closet. Queer Reflections on Horror.Fiction: Kate Atkinson: Shrines of Gaiety.Becky Chambers: A... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – She’s Desperate.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x08 Motherland. June and Moira have escaped Gilead. They’ve suffered horribly. They’ve lost so many of their friends to this regime.... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 31/10/22

  Politics: Ballots are being counted in Brazil in the run-off election between current right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro and past president Luiz Inácio Lula... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – We Mattered.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x07 No Man’s Land. There is no home, Serena. There is just wherever you are. I spent most of this episode completely unsure about where... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – One Day, There Will Be Justice.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x06 Together. For the entirety of this season and ever since June managed to leave Gilead and Serena crossed the border after Fred’s... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I’ve Never Seen Anyone in Gilead Who’s Pure Like Him.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x05 Fairytale. Luke and June’s determination to save Hannah is a race against time. They know she has been sent to a finishing school for... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I See Who You Really Are.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 5x04 Dear Offred. There are many moments in this episode where June almost fires the gun – more than once, at Serena, and once at a random... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• 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 - 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

• 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