Directed by: Dick Richards Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Driving instructor Rafferty (Alan Arkin) gets tangled up with two eccentric drifters, Frisbee (Mackenzie Phillips) and Mac (Sally Kellerman), after they kidnap him at gunpoint. Kitty Cameo: Despite their strained beginnings, Rafferty befriends the girls and […]
Category Archives: Tortoiseshell
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 CafĂ© which only befuddles her matchmaking mother Sheila (Swoosie Kurtz). Cat […]
The Killing Kind (1973)
Directed by: Curtis Harrington This review contains a severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Terry Lambert (Jon Savage) is released from prison after being convicted of taking part in a gang rape and returns home to his mother Thelma (Ann Sothern) filled […]
Out of Control – “Science”
Original Air Date: October 1984 Directed by: Bob Hughes Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: This episode of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy show starring Dave Coulier features a segment about a girl who brings home a “stray” cat. Kitty Cameo: The sketch begins showing the girl luring […]
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Directed by: Jack Smight Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Christopher Gill (Rod Steiger) is a deranged killer who toys with Morris Brummel (George Segal), the detective assigned to his murders. Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): Gill targets older women living alone, showing up at their apartments […]
Catchfire (1990)
Also Known As: Backtrack Directed by: Dennis Hopper Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Artist Anne Benton (Jodie Foster) accidentally witnesses a mob murder which puts her life in danger. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): After the murder, Anne leaves the police station and returns home with […]
Doctor Who – “The Daemons: Episode One”
Original Air Date: May 22, 1971 Starring: Noakes Directed by: Christopher Barry Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: An archeological dig in a village called Devil’s End leads to the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) facing evil incarnate. Kitty Cameo: A beautiful tortoiseshell cat is seen briefly at the […]
Enigma (1982)
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Russian defector Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited by the CIA to infiltrate East Berlin. His mission: disrupt the Soviet’s Enigma code computer to prevent assassinations scheduled to take place on Christmas morning. Cat Burglar (Scene […]
Situation Hopeless — but Not Serious (1965)
Directed by: Gottfried Reinhardt Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Two American airmen, Captain Hank Wilson (Robert Redford) and Sergeant Lucky Finder (Michael Connors), find themselves in German territory during World War II where a lonely air raid warden named Wilhelm Frick (Alec Guinness) offers them […]
Corpo Celeste (2011)
Directed by: Alice Rohrwacher This review contains a very severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A young girl named Marta (Yle Vianello) moves with her family from Switzerland to Southern Italy where she prepares for catechism while observing the hypocrisy around her. […]