Directed by: Ridley Scott Synopsis: The famous fashion house of Gucci starts to come apart when Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) marries Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) and her ruthless ambition causes family members to turn on one another. Purr Blurs: Patrizia forms a friendship with a psychic named Pina Auriemma (Selma Hayek). Pina owns several cats, […]
Category Archives: Biopic
Kean (1924)
by Ted Davis Also Known As: Kean, ou Désordre et génie Directed by: Alexandre Volkoff Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In the England of the early 1800s, Edmund Kean (Ivan Mosjoukine) is widely praised as the country’s foremost Shakespearean actor, but his scandalous and turbulent […]
Mr. Jones (2019)
by Mark Murton Directed by: Agnieszka Holland Synopsis: Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (James Norton) risks his life to expose the truth about the devastating famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Kitty Cameo: Jones’s writing is said to have influenced George Owell’s Animal Farm and the film opens with Orwell (Joseph Mawle) working […]
Little Richard (2000)
by Mark Murton Director: Robert Townsend Synopsis: TV movie bio-pic charting the rise to stardom of Little Richard. Purr Blur: At a church, the young Richard (Ty Hodges) is startled by the piano suddenly seeming to be playing itself, only for an orange and white tabby cat to emerge from inside. Final Mewsings: Could a […]
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
Starring: Felix Wilde, Windsor Wilde and Norbury Ackland Directed by: Will Sharpe This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The eclectic life of noted cat illustrator Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) from meeting his wife Emily (Claire Foy) to his eventual […]
Bird (1988)
Directed by: Clint Eastwood Synopsis: The life story of the great jazz saxophone player Charlie “Bird” Parker (Forest Whitaker). Purr Blur: At one point Parker tours the south with a band that includes Red Rodney (Michael Zelniker). As the band members enter a small motel, the clerk is at the check-in counter with a small […]
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
Also Known As: Night Ambush Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Synopsis: Major Patrick Leigh Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) heads up a team of Crete rebels who plan to kidnap a German officer and smuggle him to Cairo. Purr Blur: When Fermor comes down from the hills to the town to set the plan in motion, […]
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Directed by: David Jones Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Aspiring New York author Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) strikes up a friendship by mail with Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins), a British bookseller. Kitty Cameo: In appreciate for the book shop’s efforts to find British tomes for […]
Frances (1982)
Directed by: Graeme Clifford Synopsis: This biopic of actress Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) delves into her battles with the Hollywood system and her mother, as well as her nightmarish experiences in a mental institution. Purr Blur: As Frances is arguing with her mother and storming out of the house, a ginger tabby cat can be […]
The Current War: Director’s Cut (2017)
Directed by: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon This review contains an inferred Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A look at the race to commercialize the use of electricity throughout America by Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult). Purr […]