The Big Bang Theory – “The Zazzy Substitution”

Original Air Date: October 7, 2010 Starring: Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Mayim Bialik Directed by: Mark Cendrowski Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Sheldon (Jim Parsons) has a heated disagreement with Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik), whom he continually insists is not his girlfriend (despite her being both a girl […]

The Standard of Perfection: Show Cats (2006)

Radio Pictures Directed by: Mark Lewis Synopsis: A documentary made for PBS about the world of cat shows.  Includes interviews with several cat owners and breeders and follows them to the Cat Fancier Association’s International Show in Houston, Texas.  The featured fanciers include Betsy Gaither, who specializes in Maine Coons, Donna Hinton and her love for Maine […]

My Name is Julia Ross (1945)

Columbia Pictures Corporation Starring: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains minor spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Julia Ross (Nina Foch) applies with a new agency and gets a job as a live-in secretary to the elderly Mrs. Hughes (Dame May Whitty), but things […]

Cats, The Movie (2008)

Fulcrum Productions Starring: Troy Garity, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeremy Piven, Dominique Swain, Jeremy Sisto Directed by: Susan Emerson Synopsis: A cute straight-to-video, home-grown production which tells the story of an indoor cat named Marcello (voice of Troy Garity) who ventures outside when his mom leaves him on his own for a couple of days.  Unfortunately he is stolen by […]

Black Hand (1950)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, Marc Lawrence Directed by: Richard Thorpe Synopsis: Johnny Columbo (Gene Kelly in a strictly dramatic role) goes back to Italy with his mother after his father is killed by the infamous Black Hand in New York, but returns years later to seek vengeance and to try to end the […]

The Window (1949)

RKO Radio Pictures Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy Directed by: Ted Tetzlaff Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Tommy Woodry (Bobby Driscoll) is an energetic boy with a wild imagination who loves to tell tall tales.  One hot night he sleeps on the balcony of his family’s […]

Pamela Kellino and James Mason: Actors Cats Have Known

Pamela Kellino and James Mason: Actors Cats Have Known

Actor James Mason and his wife, actress and author Pamela Kellino, were noted cat lovers and very public about their affection for felines. The newspapers often reported about the menagerie of cats which shared the Mason’s homes, first in Surrey, England and then in Beverly Hills. In 1949 they published a book entitled The Cats […]

I pugni in tasca (1965)

English Title: Fists in the Pocket Doria Starring: Lou Castel, Marino Masé, Paola Pitagora, Liliana Gerace Directed by: Marco Bellocchio Synopsis: Augusto (Marino Masé) is the oldest brother in an Italian family which suffers from a variety of disabilities.  The mother (Liliana Gerace) is blind and needs constant care.  The second oldest brother, Alessandro (Lou Castel) suffers from epilepsy […]

Cats Don’t Dance (1997)

Warner Bros. Starring: Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Ashley Peldon, Kathy Najimy Directed by: Mark Dindal Synopsis: Set in Hollywood of the 1930’s, Danny (voiced by Scott Bakula) is an aspiring song-and-dance cat from Kokomo who arrives on the scene with set plans of hitting it big in the movies.  He learns the hard way that there are firm […]

The Third Man (1949)

London Film Productions Starring: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli Directed by: Carol Reed Synopsis: A pulp fiction novelist named Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in post-World War II Vienna expecting to meet up with an old friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job.  Instead he learns his friend is dead and he quickly learns that […]