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 […]
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: Jacques Deray This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: François Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Roch Siffredi (Alain Delon) are two small time hoods in 1930’s Marseille who decide to team up to take down the big gangsters. Cat […]
Directed by: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A young boy named Brendan (voiced by Evan McGuire) is intrigued by the master illuminator Aidan (voiced by Mick Lally) who comes to visit the Irish Abbey where Brendan is apprenticed and fights to […]
English Title: Parasite Directed by: Bong Joon Ho Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The Kim family are poor and live in squalor until they figure out a way to wheedle work out of the rich Park family. Purr Blurs: Early in the film the Kims […]
English Title: Cats in the Rain Directed by: Aleksei Dyomin (aka Alexey Demin) Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A woman goes out fishing and finds a clowder of cats waiting in the rain for her catch. Cartoon Cats: One of the cats is living in […]
Directed by: Aleksandr Medvedkin Synopsis: One of the Cinetrain films by Medvedkin which focuses on cleanliness. Kitty Cameo: The silent short film begins with a close up of a gray tabby cat preening itself. This is interspersed with a man wiping his face. The film of the cat is flipped for one moment. The cat […]
English Title: A Very Long Engagement Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) is convinced that her husband, who fought in the trenches during World War I, somehow survived. Cat Cattle Call: Mathilde lives with her parents in a farmhouse […]
Directed by: Taika Waititi Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A New Zealand youngster named Boy (James Rolleston) is surprised by the return of his wayward father Alamein (Taika Waititi). Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Boy is a fan of Michael Jackson. While telling his younger brother […]
English Title: Death in the Garden Directed by: Luis Buñuel Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A group of people persecuted by local police flee into the Amazon jungle in an attempt to escape. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): One of the men who is eventually arrested […]