Directed by: Sebastián Lelio Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Gloria (Paulina García) is a divorced mother in Santiago, Chile, who decides she doesn’t want to be alone and sets out to find romance. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): A running joke in the film is the […]
Directed by: Harley Cokliss Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Malone (Burt Reynolds) is an ex-CIA hitman looking for some peace and quiet but doesn’t find it in a town being taken over by a ruthless politician. Purr Blur: In the final battle one of the […]
Directed by: Peter Glenville Synopsis: A cynical Welch hotel owner named Brown (Richard Burton) finds himself in Haiti which is failing under the regime of “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Kitty Cameo: Late in the film, Brown goes to a cemetery with Major H.O. Jones (Alec Guinness). As they wait, they hear a sound which turns out […]
English Title: Fireworks Directed by: Takeshi Kitano Synopsis: Police detective Yoshitaka Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) leaves the force to care for his terminally ill wife (Kayoko Kishimoto) after a series of life-shattering events. Kitty Cameos: Nishi and his wife visit a temple late in the film. One shot shows several temple cats sitting together. Later a […]
Directed by: Tim Hunter Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A group of high school students are eerily unaffected when they learn one of their friends, John (Daniel Roebuck) has killed a classmate. Kitty Cameo: John’s friend Layne (Crispin Glover) hides John at the house of an […]
Directed by: Robert Siodmak Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Police Lt. Candella (Victor Mature) is torn when the oldest son of a family he has befriended kills a policeman then needs his help. Kitty Cameo: Late in the film a nurse named Frances Pruett (Betty […]
English Title: Burnt by the Sun Directed by: Nikita Mikhalkov Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov) is a hero of the Red Army who is living in an artist’s community with his family during Stalin’s Great Purge. Kitty Cameo: Near […]
Directed by: Ariel Vromen Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a pretty big spoiler for this film! Synopsis: The story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a cold-blooded mob killer known as “The Iceman.” Kitty Cameo: Near the end of the film, Kuklinski is preparing what appears to be egg salad sandwiches in […]
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Retired University Professor Hyakken Uchida (Tatsuo Matsumura) continues to garner the respect of his students with his positive attitude during and after World War II. Featured Felines: After […]
Directed by: Tom Ford Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: English professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) finds his life in 1960’s Los Angeles difficult to bear after the loss of his love. Purr Blur: George lives next door to a typical but annoying nuclear family. As […]