Original Title: The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger Directed by: George Cukor Synopsis: Adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ novel with an all-star cast finds young David Copperfield (Freddie Bartholomew) facing adversity as a youth as well as meeting a bevy of unique characters. Purr Blur: David ends up at […]
Category Archives: Drama
Glass Ceiling (1971)
Original Title: El techo de cristal Directed by: Eloy de la Iglesia This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Marta (Carmen Sevilla), an attractive housewife living in a small rural apartment house on the outskirts of Madrid, spends most […]
Exotica (1994)
Directed by: Atom Egoyan Synopsis: Tax auditor Francis Brown (Bruce Greenwood) regularly visits the Exotica strip club where he tries to escape his problems while watching dancer Christina (Mia Kirshner). Purr Blur: In the final shot of the film, which is a flashback, Francis is driving a teenage Christina home to her parents’ house. After […]
Chernobyl – “1:23:45” and “The Happiness of All Mankind”
by Mark Murton Original Air Dates: May 6 and May 27, 2019 Starring: Tinkerbell Directed by: Johan Renck This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this series. Synopsis: On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union suffered a […]
A Man About The House (1947)
by Mark Murton Directed by: Leslie Arliss Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Two impecunious English spinster sisters, Agnes (Margaret Johnson) and Ellen (Dulcie Grey), unexpectedly inherit a villa in Naples. The villa’s handsome caretaker marries one of them but he is not what he seems. […]
Gone to Earth (1950)
by Ted Davis Alternative Version: The Wild Heart is a drastically different and inferior movie, with some scenes excised, and new ones concocted by David O’Selznick and Rouben Mamoulian, neither man at his best on this project. Directed by: Michael Powell Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! […]
Kung Fu – “Chains”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: March 29, 1973 Directed by: Robert Butler Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: To learn the whereabouts of his brother, mild-mannered wanderer Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), who also happens to be a Shaolin monk on the run from a trumped […]
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Directed by: John Rawlins Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Comic book detective Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) faces off against villain Gruesome (Boris Karloff) who teams with a doctor to use a strange gas to incapacitate people so they can be robbed. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): […]
Eight O’Clock Walk (1954)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Lance Comfort Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: It looks pretty bad for good-natured cab driver Tom Manning (Richard Attenborough) — arrested for the heinous murder of a young child, it’s very likely that that he’ll be convicted because of a […]
Two Left Feet (1965)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Roy (Ward) Baker Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains minor spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Inexperienced working class youth Allan Crabbe (Michael Crawford) leads a somewhat aimless existence, but is not without reserves of wit and spirit. His main obsession is the opposite sex, and to that […]