Family Matters – “Little Big Guy”

Family Matters – “Little Big Guy”

Original Air Date: September 22, 1995 Directed by: Richard Correll Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Carl (Reginald VelJohnson) is frustrated when Steve Urkel (Jaleel White) moves in but even moreso when Urkel’s machine shrinks them both to the size of dolls. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): In […]

Ain’t She Sweet? (1933)

Ain’t She Sweet? (1933)

by Ted Davis Directed by: Dave Fleischer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this Screen Songs release by the Fleischer Studios, which produced the often surreal Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons, the pert and cute Lillian Roth sings the Milton Ager -Jack Yellen standard bracketed […]

Alexander Baxter (1985)

Alexander Baxter (1985)

Directed by: Leonard S. Berman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A longhair ginger tabby cat named Alexander Baxter finds himself looking for a new home and the perfect owner. Featured Feline: At first Alexander Baxter lives with an elderly former firefighter named Mr. Baxter (Edwyn […]

A Girl Must Live (1939)

A Girl Must Live (1939)

by Mark Murton Directed by: Carol Reed Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Fast paced farce in which two gold-digging chorus girls, Gloria (Renee Houston) and Clytie (Lilli Palmer), pursue eligible bachelor the Earl of Pangborough (Hugh Sinclair) but find they have competition from fellow chorus […]

How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)

How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)

by Brian H. Directed by: Nunnally Johnson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Stormy Tornado (Betty Grable) and Curly Flagg (Sheree North) are two San Francisco showgirls who witness the shooting murder of another showgirl, flee the city, and hide out at a small college fraternity […]

Exotica (1994)

Exotica (1994)

Directed by: Atom Egoyan Synopsis: Tax auditor Francis Brown (Bruce Greenwood) regularly visits the Exotica strip club where he tries to escape his problems while watching dancer Christina (Mia Kirshner). Purr Blur: In the final shot of the film, which is a flashback, Francis is driving a teenage Christina home to her parents’ house. After […]

Spice World (1997)

Spice World (1997)

by Mark Murton Directed by: Bob Spiers Synopsis: British pop phenomenon The Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans. Kitty Cameo: A longhair white cat is seen with The Chief (Roger Moore doing his best Blofeld imitation), the cryptic and eccentric head […]

Chernobyl – “1:23:45” and “The Happiness of All Mankind”

Chernobyl – “1:23:45” and “The Happiness of All Mankind”

by Mark Murton Original Air Dates: May 6 and May 27, 2019 Starring: Tinkerbell Directed by: Johan Renck This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this series. Synopsis: On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union suffered a […]

The Cuckoo Clock (1950)

The Cuckoo Clock (1950)

Directed by: Tex Avery This review contains numerous Cartoonish Kitty Carnage Warnings! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A black and white cat is driven mad by the incessant noise of a cuckoo clock and sets out to kill the cuckoo with disastrous results. Cartoon Cat: At […]

A Man About The House (1947)

A Man About The House (1947)

by Mark Murton Directed by: Leslie Arliss Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Two impecunious English spinster sisters, Agnes (Margaret Johnson) and Ellen (Dulcie Grey), unexpectedly inherit a villa in Naples. The villa’s handsome caretaker marries one of them but he is not what he seems. […]