Original Title: Nasanunaka Directed by: Mikio Naruse This review contains a Slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Actress Tamae Kiyooka (Yoshiko Okada) returns to Japan after a five year absence hoping to claim her daughter Shigeko (Toshiko Kojima) who only knows her […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: Max Ophuls Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: At the turn of 19th century Vienna, forlorn beauty Lisa Berndle (Joan Fontaine) writes a last long letter to full-time charming wastrel, part-time concert pianist Stefan Brand (Louis Jordan), documenting her overriding and […]
by Mark Murton Starring: Sydney and Dave Director: Simon Anstell Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film. Synopsis: Benjamin (Colin Morgan), a promising young film-maker, is thrown into emotional turmoil by a burgeoning romance with a French musician named Noah (Phénix Brossard) and the upcoming premiere of his […]
Directed by: Robert Wise Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: A dramatic retelling about the fiery explosion which destroyed the German airship The Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey, Kitty Cameo: In one scene a couple of FBI men pay a call to a suburban woman named […]
Directed by: Nicole Riegel Synopsis: A teenaged girl named Ruth (Jessica Barden) reluctantly works with an illegal scrapping crew to pay for a college education, even though she doubts the benefits an education will give her. Kitty Cameos: Cats are seen in a few establishing shots. One has a bicolor tabby and white cat struggling […]
Original Title: Die Hinrichtung Also Known As: Naked Massacre Directed by: Denis Héroux Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Loosely based on the Richard Speck murders, an unstable American Vietnam deserter named Cain Adams (Mathieu Carrière) terrorizes a home full of female nurses. Featured Feline: Living with […]
Directed by: Robert Siodmak Synopsis: Vic Smith (Jeff Chandler) is an American gangster deported to Italy where he gets involved in crime and falls for a Countess (Märta Torén). Purr Blur: In one scene a woman named Gina (Marina Berti) is following Vic through the streets. She passes very close to a tuxedo cat who […]
Directed by: Eliza Hittman This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Sonya (Viktoria Vinyarska), a teenaged girl living in Brooklyn with her father (Mike Pikeman) and his menagerie of cats, finds herself facing difficult choices to protect him. Cat […]
by Ted Davis Also Known As: Adventure for Two Directed by: Anthony Asquith Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In 1939, earnest Russian engineer Ivan Kouznetsoff (Laurence Olivier) visits England to manufacture his revolutionary ice-breaker propeller, but his preconceived prejudices against the English people prove to […]
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: April 10, 1978 Directed by: Herbert Wise Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Acerbic and aging, beleaguered Wordsworth-spouting barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) travels from London to the Western Circuit in order to defend free-spirit Kathy (Jane Asher) on a cannabis-related […]