Original Air Date: June 24, 2016 Starring: BamBam Directed by: Steven Zaillian Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains MAJOR spoilers for this series! Synopsis: A straight-laced college student named Naz (Riz Ahmed) takes his father’s cab to go to a party in New York and finds himself caught up in intrigue, drugs […]
Category Archives: Mystery
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg Synopsis: John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) are visiting Venice, Italy, after the death of their daughter only to find that the recent tragedy continues to haunt them. Purr Blur: Late in the film John is walking through the streets of Venice with a man following him. A […]
Sapphire (1959)
Directed by: Basil Dearden Synopsis: British police work to solve the murder of a young woman and find that complex issues may be under the surface. Purr Blur: As Police Inspector Learoyd (Michael Craig) exits a car in one scene, what appears to be a black cat is scurrying down the sidewalk behind him. Final […]
Murder, She Wrote – “The Family Jewels”
Original Air Date: November 4, 1990 Directed by: Jerry Jameson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) tries to intervene when she sees a woman named Sheila (Brenda Vaccaro) steal a necklace from a high end jewelry store which somehow ties in to a murder […]
Columbo – “A Trace of Murder”
Original Air Date: May 15, 1997 Directed by: Vincent McEveety Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Cathleen (Shera Danese) and her lover Patrick (David Rasche) plan to frame her husband for murder in order to get his money. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Patrick goes to the home […]
The Ghost of St. Michael’s (1941)
Directed by: Marcel Varnel Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: School teacher Will Lamb (Will Hay) is hired to work in a haunted Scottish school whose ghost heralds the death of each faculty member by sounding bagpipes. Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): Late in the film, Lamb […]
Midsomer Murders – “Hidden Depths”
Original Air Date: March 13, 2005 Directed by: Sarah Hellings Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) investigates the questionable suicide of a troubled solicitor who either fell or jumped from the roof of his home. Purr Blur: One character, Otto Benham (Oliver […]
Peter Gunn – “Spell of Murder”
Original Air Date: January 11, 1960 Directed by: Lamont Johnson This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Jane Simpson (Cynthia Leighton) hires Peter Gunn to investigate the attempted murder of her husband Arnold Simpson (Malcolm Atterbury). Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): […]
The Mentalist – “Red Sky in the Morning”
Original Air Date: May 20, 2010 Directed by: Chris Long Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Patrick (Simon Baker) resents Kristina’s (Leslie Hope) involvement when a Red John style murder takes place. Cat Cattle Call: A lead sends Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) and Cho (Tim Kang) looking for […]
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Directed by: Terence Fisher Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) tries to save the life of Sir Henry (Christopher Lee) who is threatened by the Baskerville family curse. Purr Blur: In one scene Sir Henry calls upon a man named Stapleton. As he approaches the door, a white cat with black markings is sitting nearby. The […]