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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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 -
The Terror
This is long, because I fell into the most unexpected wikipedia hole. In 1845, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, under the Expedition command of Sir James... Read more
Posted on 16 May 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Life After Life
“Become such as you are, having learned what that is.”“What if we had a chance to do it again and again,’ Teddy said, ‘until we finally did get it right?... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: April.
Non-Fiction: Michael Sells: The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia.Fiction: Rebecca Scherm: A House Between the Earth and the Moon.Ausma Zehanat... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March.
Non-Fiction: Karen Cheung: The Impossible City.Jill Gutowitz: Girls Can Kiss Now.Fiction: Mariko Tamaki: Cold.Olivie Blake: The Atlas Six.Katrina Carrasco: The... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Candyman and Master
Right after Anthony McCoy’s (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), an artist who has returned with new inspiration after a two-year break, exhibits his new piece about an... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - Let It Wash Over Me.
camp cope | caroline. ms mr | bones. yumi zouma | give it hell. david boring | brian emo. cat power | i had a dream joe. trentemøller | dead or alive. willow... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Severance
The work is mysterious and important. I am a person. You are not. I make decisions. You do not. I frequently reference Vincenzo Natalie’s seminal 1997 film Cube... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February.
Fiction: Elizabeth Hand: The Book of Lamps and Banners. Premee Mohamed: The Annual Migration of Clouds.Claire Legrand: Sawkill Girls.Rory Power: Wilder... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Chloe
Becky (a singular performance by Erin Doherty) spends her day working meaningless temp jobs – disrespected by bosses who think her underqualified or replaceable... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Fear Street
I knew Simon. He was funny and brave. And I knew Kate. She was smart and kind and...Fearless.The first Fear Street (1994) took me right back to watching late... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Archive 81
In terms of horror film staples, Archive 81 is like a wild, dissonant assortment: it has an ancient coven of witches called the Baldung, a demon who may be... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: January.
Non-Fiction: Nancy Princenthal: Agnes Martin. Her Life and Art. Larissa Pham: Pop Song. Adventures in Art and Intimacy.Kyle Chayka: Minimalism. The Longing for... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress
Fiction: Alison Rumfitt: Tell Me I'm WorthlessJohn Darnielle: Devil House.Jessamine Chan: The School for Good MothersSequoia Nagamatsu: How High We Go in the... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Night House
I wish that you were here. I wish that it was morning.In an interview with Vogue, Rebecca Hall, who plays main character Beth in David Bruckner’s The Night Hous... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Dread as Horror
A recent essay in the Literary Hub, making the argument that Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter has all the makings of a horro... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO