by Mark Murton Original Air Date: January 24, 2018 Directed by: Brian Taylor Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Reunited, Sax and Happy make one last push to save Hailey. Blue and Isabella come to blows over a dark family secret and Amanda pursues a dangerous lead […]
Category Archives: Crime
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Directed by: Olivia Newman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Based on the book by Delia Owens. Kya Clark (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a reclusive girl living alone in a North Carolina marshland, faces those who have ostracized her when she is accused of murder. Cat Burglar (Scene […]
The Secret Place (1957)
by Brian H Directed by: Clive Donner Synopsis: Freddie Haywood (Michael Brooke) is a pre-teen boy living in a poor district of London. He has a crush on the pretty girl Molly Wilson (Belinda Lee) who runs a small store. Molly’s boyfriend Gerry Carter (Ronald Lewis), a member of a gang, steals some jewels and […]
Death in Paradise – “A Dash Of Sunshine”
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, […]
Danger Man – “Judgement Day”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: January 29, 1966 Directed by: Don Chaffey Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Tensions are high outside of Bir Azhad when globe-trotting secret M9 agent John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) contends with a group of unsanctioned Israeli vigilantes intent on killing the […]
House of Numbers (1957)
by Brian H Directed by: Russell Rouse Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Arnie Judlow (Jack Palance) is an inmate at California’s San Quentin prison. Arnie arranges with his honest brother Bill (also Jack Palance but not a twin) to escape by having Bill sneak into […]
La Poison (1951)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Sacha Guitry Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: After enduring 30 years of something less than connubial bliss with drunken and slovenly shrew Blandine (Germaine Reuver), the exhausted and constantly harassed Paul Louis Victor Bracconier (Michel Simon) determines to put an end […]
Vengeance Is Mine (1949)
by Mark Murton Directed by: Alan Cullimore Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Believing himself to be dying, Charles Heywood (Valentine Dyall) hires an assassin to kill him so he can frame a former business partner who got him sent to jail for the death. Purr […]
What a Carve Up! (1961)
by Ted Davis Also Known As: No Place Like Homicide! Directed by: Pat Jackson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Scaredy-cat proofreader Ernie Broughton (Kenneth Connor) travels to Yorkshire for a nighttime reading of his uncle’s last will and testament, accompanied by his more confident and […]
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Original Title: Der Name der Rose Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning for Scruffing! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Father William von Baskerville (Sean Connery) is a Franciscan monk who investigates a series of mysterious deaths in a secluded abbey, […]