A Simple Favor (2018)

A Simple Favor (2018)

Directed by: Paul Feig Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kenrick) is a sweet, motherly blogger whose life changes radically when she comes up against the more worldly and mysterious mom named Emily (Blake Lively). Kitty Cameo: While investigating Emily’s life, Stephanie ends […]

Buta to gunkan (1961)

Buta to gunkan (1961)

English Title: Pigs and BattleshipsDirected by: Shôhei Imamura Synopsis: Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is a young gang member who is put in charge of a pig farm for a small gang of Yakuza that is slowly imploding. Purr Blur: In one scene Kinta is walking home after losing at cards. A small white Japanese Bobtail cat […]

Forty Guns (1957)

Forty Guns (1957)

Directed by: Samuel Fuller This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Synopsis: Griff Bonell (Barry Sullivan) is one of the last of the old-school marshalls who arrives in an Arizona county with his brothers only to come up against a tough rancher (Barbara Stanwyck) who wants the man on her side. Kitty Cameo: This […]

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – “Season 16, Episode 9”

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – “Season 16, Episode 9”

Original Air Date: February 6, 1986Directed by: Paul Lally Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Mr. Rogers (Fred Rogers) shows a film of a kitten being born and talks about making and creating things. Reality Cat: Mr. Rogers enters his house carrying a little tabby kitten. He […]

The Enchanted Square (1947)

The Enchanted Square (1947)

Directed by: Seymour Kneitel Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this Paramount Noveltoon, a little blind girl named Billie (voiced by Cecil Roy) makes friends with Raggedy Ann (voiced by Joyce Terry) who helps the little girl to see with her heart. Cartoon Cats: As […]

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Directed by: Chas. F. Reisner Synopsis: William Canfield (Ernest Torrence), a tough steamboat captain, is disappointed when his son, William Canfield Jr. (Buster Keaton) arrives looking anything but manly. Kitty Cameo: Junior wants to sneak out to see his girl one night and is trying to get off the steamboat without being seen. He moves […]

The Cooler (2003)

The Cooler (2003)

Directed by: Wayne Kramer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is a bona fide loser; so much so that he acts as a “cooler” in a Las Vegas casino to pay off his debts. But will love turn Bernie’s luck around? […]

The Horse’s Mouth (1958)

The Horse’s Mouth (1958)

Directed by: Ronald Neame Synopsis: Cantakerous artist Gulley Jimson (Alec Guiness) ruffles the feathers of those around him as he searches for the perfect wall for his as yet unrealized masterpiece. Kitty Cameo: In one scene, a dejected Gulley is sitting with his young admirer, Nosey (Mike Morgan), outside a dilapidated church. Nosey hears meowing […]

Coming Soon – Cats Trailer Drops

The trailer for the new movie version of the musical Cats has just dropped and shows how computer animation has been utilized to update and enhance the looks of the “cats”, making them more cat-like.