All posts tagged: Catherine

Catherine Zeta-Jones in AMC+ Assassin Thriller

Catherine Zeta-Jones in AMC+ Assassin Thriller

Published by Daniella Wilson

Several times in the first episode of AMC+’s Kill Jackie, the question comes up of whether its protagonist (Catherine Zeta-Jones) might be a bit bored. Jackie’s friend suggests her “chronic feelings of ennui” might be blamed on the “mental and emotional disturbances that plague our modern society.” Jackie herself likens her career as an art dealer to a “magic trick,” but then muses that the problem with mastering tricks is that “they stop being magic.” Kill Jackie The Bottom Line Dead on arrival. Airdate: Friday, Oct. 1 (AMC+)Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Daniel Ings, Óscar Jaenada, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Darci Shaw, Raff Law, Christine Adams, Julian Rhind-TuttCreator: Tom Butterworth and Connor Keane, based on The Price You Pay by Nick Harkaway Having watched all eight hour-long episodes, I’m ready to posit another explanation: Maybe Jackie’s feeling blah because there simply isn’t anything about her world worth getting excited over. Shallowly conceived and haphazardly constructed, Kill Jackie is a thriller fatally short on thrills. One imagines it must have all sounded very zippy on paper, else it’s hard …

Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard

Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some thrillers are about a crime. This one is about an address. In Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard, a shabby Victorian cottage hidden down a Dublin laneway becomes witness, accomplice, and silent keeper of every bad thing done inside it. Howard, the Irish writer behind 56 Days and The Nothing Man, has always been good at wringing menace out of ordinary places. Here she does it with an estate agent’s window display, a neighbourhood WhatsApp group, and a stain under a carpet, and the result is one of her most unsettling books yet. The Listing: What You Are Buying Into A woman calling herself Ellie arrives at 1 Delaney Row, Dundrum, on a cold October day with one suitcase, about three hundred euro, and no furniture. She tells her new neighbours she has been living in Paris. She has not. The FOR SALE sign is still bolted to the brickwork, strangers seem to treat the place as open to the public, and within twenty-four hours someone has let themselves in during the night. Then …

Into the Fading Twilight by Catherine Cowles

Into the Fading Twilight by Catherine Cowles

Published by Jenni Sidey

The prologue is a woman chained to a tree in what she thinks is snowfall, counting the days that were stolen from her and losing the count somewhere past three hundred. It is a rough place to open a romance. It also sets a bar the rest of the book has to clear, and for the most part it does, because what follows is not a story about a damaged woman being repaired by a good man. And “Into the Fading Twilight” is a story about a woman who has already decided to live, out loud and at speed, and a man who slowly works out that his job is to hand her the tools rather than the leash. That distinction is the entire novel. The Premise, Kept Clean Nova Monroe returns to Starlight Grove after more than a year in captivity to find that the world kept spinning without her. Her best friend Brae has built a life, a fiancé, and a home. Her nephew-in-all-but-blood has grown up a full year. Nova is the …

Nine Lives by Catherine Steadman

Nine Lives by Catherine Steadman

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is a particular kind of dread that lives on a quiet, expensive street. Everyone is polite. Every front door is freshly painted. And nobody, absolutely nobody, wants you looking too closely. That is the queasy social pressure Catherine Steadman builds her sixth novel on, and it works because most of us have stood on a pavement at dusk, caught a lit window across the road, and wondered what the people inside are actually like. Nine Lives by Catherine Steadman hands that low-grade nosiness a weapon: a camera, strapped to a cat. The Setup: One Cat, One Collar, One Very Bad Idea Frankie Green arrives at her box-fresh London terrace carrying the wreckage of a recent divorce, a redundancy payout, and Blue, the Persian cat she kept from the marriage. She is forty, newly single, a little out of her financial depth among neighbours who seem to own two houses each, and trying very hard to become a calmer, glossier version of herself. Then Blue slips out one night and comes home with two words …

Seth Rogen on How Catherine O’Hara’s Death Shifts The Studio Season 2

Seth Rogen on How Catherine O’Hara’s Death Shifts The Studio Season 2

Published by Daniella Wilson

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are opening up about how the upcoming second season of The Studio has been impacted following Catherine O’Hara’s death. In a Friday interview with The Times, the directors spoke about how the show will look different without O’Hara’s Patty Leigh, whom the interviewer referred to as “the anchor” of the seires. Rogen noted that they are “acknowledging” her death, with Goldberg adding that “it has been an unbelievable challenge” navigating her absence, also because her character was written into season two. “Obviously emotionally, dealing with the loss, but also when it comes to the show itself. We wrote it for her to be there. We had it all set and the shock waves permeate throughout the entire new season,” Goldberg said. “It’s been difficult. You worded it better than we could — she was the anchor and now the anchor is gone.” Rogen elaborated on the notion of O’Hara being The Studio‘s anchor, adding, “If anything we’re acknowledging the idea that we are a little anchorless. But, honestly, that is a …

How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh

How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh

Published by José Betancourt

There is a particular kind of ache that lives in a house someone loved more than they should have. It seeps into the walls, pools in the floorboards, hums through the silence of rooms that once rang with laughter and the scratching of a pen. Catherine Walsh understands this. In How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh, the Irish bestselling author of Holiday Romance and Snowed In delivers a romance that is as much about letting go of the dead as it is about choosing the living. It is warm and sharp, funny and gutting, and it might just be the most emotionally layered book Walsh has written to date. A Premise That Writes Itself The setup is deceptively clever. Ciara Sheridan is the daughter of Frank Sheridan, a legendary fantasy author whose nine-book Ravian series sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. When Frank dies, he leaves Ciara three things: a ramshackle estate on the coast of County Kerry, crippling financial pressure, and an outline for the tenth and final Ravian book …

A Most Particular Life | Catherine Nicholson

A Most Particular Life | Catherine Nicholson

Published by José Betancourt

On the morning of October 10, 1552, a fifteen-year-old boy named Felix left the city of Basel, on the Rhine River, to study medicine at the university in Montpellier, some 330 miles away. He was the only son, and only surviving child, of a Swiss German schoolmaster and his wife. At his departure his father gave him seven gold coins, two fresh shirts, some clean handkerchiefs, and a lecture on the virtue of hard work. His mother gave him an additional gold coin and a tearful hug. Mounting a small horse, he set off with a pair of companions for the southern coast of France. That first day the travelers stopped to dine at an inn in nearby Lieschtal; unaccustomed to walking in spurs, Felix nearly fell down a set of stairs. Two days later, in Bern, he saw six captive bears and a woman on horseback who got snared in the branches of an apple tree and was left dangling, skirts in armpits, until someone helped her down. The following day it began to …

Across the Vanishing Sky by Catherine Cowles

Across the Vanishing Sky by Catherine Cowles

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is a particular kind of ache that comes from not knowing. Not the sharp, definitive grief of loss, but the hollow, gnawing kind that makes you reach for someone who might still be out there, somewhere, under the same sky you are looking up at. Across the Vanishing Sky by Catherine Cowles takes that ache and wraps it inside a story that is part love letter to found family, part white-knuckled thriller, and wholly, unapologetically romantic. A Homecoming Nobody Asked For Braedyn Winslow never planned to come back to Starlight Grove. The small Oregon town where her best friend Nova disappeared on a hiking trail a year earlier was supposed to be a place she drove away from, not toward. But when you are a single mother with an eight-year-old son named Owen, a massive dog named Yeti, and a best friend who vanished between one footstep and the next, plans become secondary to the pull of unanswered questions. Cowles establishes Brae not as a damsel walking into danger, but as a woman walking …

Home Alone actress Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death confirmed | World News

Home Alone actress Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death confirmed | World News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Home Alone actress Catherine O’Hara died of a pulmonary embolism, with cancer the underlying cause, according to a death certificate. The Canadian-American star died at her home in Los Angeles last month, at the age of 71. On Monday, the cause of her death was confirmed as a pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lungs. The Los Angeles County death certificate added that rectal cancer was the long-term cause. The oncologist who signed off on the certificate said he had been treating O’Hara since March of last year, and last saw her on 27 January. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Home Alone star Catherine O’Hara dies at 71 O’Hara won an Emmy award for lead actress for her role in comedy series Schitt’s Creek in 2020, where she played the eccentric Moira Rose. She was also well known for playing Kevin’s mother, Kate McCallister, in the first two Home Alone films. Read more:Trump blasts ‘worst ever’ Super Bowl showSocial media …

Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death revealed after Home Alone star suffered ‘brief illness’

Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death revealed after Home Alone star suffered ‘brief illness’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death has been officially released, less than two weeks after the beloved Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek star died at 71. It was initially announced that O’Hara had died following a “brief illness,” according to her manager. Now, TMZ reports that the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office published the actor’s death certificate Monday. It states that O’Hara’s immediate cause of death was a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot in her heart. Rectal cancer was listed as the underlying cause. The death certificate also states that O’Hara has been cremated, with her remains given to her husband Bo Welch. The Medical Examiner’s Office did not immediately return The Independent’s request for further details. Catherine O’Hara, who died in January at the age of 71, pictured attending the Primetime Emmys in September 2025 (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Although O’Hara played a wide variety of characters in a career that spanned five decades, she was perhaps best known for playing mothers. She played Macaulay Culkin’s character Kevin’s mother, Kate McCallister, in the first two …