English Title: The Smiling Madame Beudet Directed by: Germaine Dulac Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Madame Beudet (Germaine Dermoz) is an unhappily married woman who is driven to thoughts of murder by her insensitive husband (Alexandre Arquillière). Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Monsieur Beudet owns a […]
Directed by: Kevin Smith Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) set out for Hollywood to ruin the movie adaptation of the comic book based on their likenesses for which they are receiving no royalties. Purr Blurs: During their […]
Original Air Date: December 3, 1989 Directed by: Allen Reisner Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this episode! Synopsis: Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) narrates the story of Lt. Amos Ballinger (Barry Newman), a police detective assigned to teach a class in criminal investigation at a local university and whose […]
Directed by: Eddie Cline, Buster Keaton Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Buster (Keaton) is in love with the girl next door but families get in the way of their romance. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealers): In one scene a policeman chases Buster into a house. He […]
British Pathé Synopsis: Newsreel footage shows a girl named Boko, who was separated from her Siamese twin the year before, back home in Nigeria. Reality Cat: Boko is seen sitting outside with her mother, Mrs. Veronica Davies, and a longhaired bi-colored cat. Final Mewsings: Home is where your cat is. To discuss this newsreel and […]
Directed by: George Marshall Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An all-star cast fills out the story of a movie producer named Oliver Merlin (Adolph Menjou) who hires a young country woman (Andrea Leeds) to act as the moral compass for his films. Cat Cattle Call: In one scene […]
Directed by: George Sidney This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film. Synopsis: Based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Judge Cass Timberlane (Spencer Tracy) marries Virginia Marshland (Lana Turner), a woman his society friends deem is from the “wrong side of […]
Directed by: Sergio Leone Synopsis: The ultimate spaghetti western, this sprawling, epic shoot-em-up film is a classic. Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) have a pretty good bounty scam going on, but the friends become enemies when Blondie two-times Tuco. Ultimately they learn about a stash of gold which brings them into the sights […]
Directed by: Frank Capra Synopsis: Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) comes from a family of good-natured and eccentric screwballs, headed by a charmingly free-thinking grandfather (Lionel Barrymore.) But when she falls in love with the son of a rich, conservative family named Tony Kirby (Jimmy Stewart) she worries about what kind of impression her family will […]
Directed by: Anatole Litvak Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) is barricaded in his apartment after shooting a magician named Maximilian the Great (Vincent Price) who performs a magic act with his trained dogs. During the siege Adams recalls, via flashback, what […]