by Mark Murton Original Air Date: February 12, 2013 Directed by: Alrick Riley This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: When an English tourist, June Anderson (Kim Thomson), is found dead in a rented luxury villa strangled by her own scarf, […]
Directed by: Jimmy T. Murakami Synopsis: Based on the book by Raymond Briggs. Hilda (voiced by Peggy Ashcroft) and Jim Bloggs (voiced by John Mills) are an older couple who attempt to prepare for the onset of a nuclear war and then face the consequences after it starts. Cartoon Cat: In one scene Hilda is […]
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A live-action / computer animated update of the Disney film in which a woodcarver named Geppetto (Tom Hanks) wishes that the puppet he has created could be a real boy. Cartoon Cats: As in the original […]
by Mark Murton Directed by: Peter Collinson Synopsis: Teenage babysitter Amanda (Susan George) arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son, Tara (Tara Collinson), while they go out for a meal. A series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house soon have Amanda’s nerves on edge but the […]
Original Title: Zhadnyy Kuzya Directed by: Mikhail Kamenetskiy, Ivan Ufimtsev Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Characters from a book come to life after a greedy hungry cat steals their birthday cake in this Russian short film which combines live action and animation. Featured Feline: The […]
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: November 24, 1973 Directed by: Alan Wallis Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode. Synopsis: Professor Sir Geoffrey Loftus (Ernest Clark) charges junior doctors Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell) and Paul Collier (George Layton) with looking after his brown tabby cat, Thomas, while […]
by Ted Davis English Title: Dracula and Son Directed by: Edouard Molinaro This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Conceived in the late 18th century, clumsy and unprepossessing Ferdinand (Bernard Menez) has always been something of a disappointment to […]
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: November 8, 1990 Studio Director: Sydney Lotterby Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: The Meldrews, Victor (Richard Wilson) and Margaret (Annette Crosbie), go to stay with their old friends the Bluetts, Vince (Stephen Lewis) and April (Georgina Hayle), in their dilapidated […]
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: October 23, 2001 Directed by: Nick Marck Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Buffy’s powers are tested by Andrew, Jonathan and Warren, who seek to expose and exploit her weaknesses in an effort to destroy her. Kitten Cattle Call: Stressed […]
Directed by: Valdimar Jóhannsson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains MAJOR spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A sheep farming couple, Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), have their isolated lives changed when one of their sheep gives birth to an unusual offspring. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): A nameless tabby cat […]