How I Live Now (2013)

How I Live Now (2013)

Directed by: Kevin Macdonald Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is a troubled American girl who comes to stay with her British cousins on their farm when a massive war breaks out. Kitty Cameos: The farmhouse includes several cats seen in the first […]

Cat’s Cradle (1959)

Cat’s Cradle (1959)

Directed by: Stan Brakhage Synopsis: A silent experimental film in which footage of two men, two women and a gray cat are rapidly interspersed. Featured Feline: The cat, which is often seen out of focus, doesn’t do too much except sit around and occasionally be petted. The footage is interesting for its use of lighting, […]

The Humbling (2014)

The Humbling (2014)

Directed by: Barry Levinson This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Simon Axler (Al Pacino) is an aging actor who suffers a breakdown brought on by encroaching dementia. After returning home from an institution, he begins an affair with a […]

Never Too Late (1965)

Never Too Late (1965)

Directed by: Bud Yorkin This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Harry Lambert (Paul Ford) is shocked when his fifty-something-year-old wife Edith (Maureen O’Sullivan) announces she is pregnant. Kitty Cameo: Harry owns a lumber mill where he employs his […]

New American Fashions for Pets (1949)

New American Fashions for Pets (1949)

Gaumont British News Synopsis: Newsreel footage shows the latest fashions from America for women, cats and dogs. Reality Cats: After the segment showing off women’s fashions, the narrator explains that all this talk about fur is rather looked down on by those who wear their own fur coats and attend their own fashion shows, too. […]

Calendar Girls (2003)

Calendar Girls (2003)

Directed by: Nigel Cole Synopsis: Based on a true story. The members of a British Woman’s Club decide to pose in tastefully nude photographs for a charity calendar. Purr Blur: During a montage sequence showing the photo shoots for the calendar, a longhair grey cat is sitting on a table with its back to the […]

The Love Punch (2013)

The Love Punch (2013)

Directed by: Joel Hopkins Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Kate (Emma Thompson) and Richard (Pierce Brosnan) are a divorced couple who reunite for a crazy heist scheme to recoup their pension money stolen by a company takeover. Cat Credit: An animated black cat is part […]

Call Me Kat – “Plus One”

Call Me Kat – “Plus One”

Original Air Date: January 3, 2021 Starring: Piper Directed by: Beth McCarthy-Miller Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Based on the British sitcom Miranda. After the death of her father, Kat (Mayim Bialik) opens a Cat Café which only befuddles her matchmaking mother Sheila (Swoosie Kurtz). Cat […]

Symphony in Slang (1951)

Symphony in Slang (1951)

Directed by: Tex Avery Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A classic animated short rich in word play finds a hip guy (voiced by John Brown) trying to communicate with Noah Webster (also John Brown) to get into heaven. Cartoon Cats: As the hipster explains his […]

Imaginary Heroes (2004)

Imaginary Heroes (2004)

Directed by: Dan Harris Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Members of the Travis family deal with inner demons and a lack of communication when their promising eldest son commits suicide. Kitty Cameo: Tim Travis (Emile Hirsch) is the younger brother who struggles with his feelings […]