Sesame Street – “Circles Become Cat and Mouse”

Sesame Street – “Circles Become Cat and Mouse”

Original Air Date: circa early 1970s Synopsis: A pink circle becomes a cat who chases a mouse made from a blue circle. Cartoon Cat: The circle divides in two and becomes a cat who preens itself. A small blue ball is bouncing nearby and the cat plays with it. The ball then splits in two […]

Can You Imagine? (1936)

Can You Imagine? (1936)

Synopsis: A Vitaphone short featuring oddities from across the United States. Kitty Cameo: One segment begins with a boy named Dickie McCollin of Salt Lake City holding a longhair tabby kitten in front of his face. This segues into a picture of a young lion named Rex. The boy, the son of lion tamer Ralph […]

You Were Never Really Here (2017)

You Were Never Really Here (2017)

Directed by: Lynne Ramsay Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a traumatized war veteran who gets caught up in a complicated situation when asked to rescue the daughter of a politician from a sex ring. Kitty Cameo: After things go awry, Joe […]

Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

Original Title: Gycklarnas afton Directed by: Ingmar Bergman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Albert Johansson (Åke Grönberg) is tired of circus life and tries to reconcile with his successful wife much to the dismay of his lover and fellow circus performer Anne (Harriet Andersson). Cat […]

Calendar Girls (2003)

Calendar Girls (2003)

Directed by: Nigel Cole Synopsis: Based on a true story. The members of a British Woman’s Club decide to pose in tastefully nude photographs for a charity calendar. Purr Blur: During a montage sequence showing the photo shoots for the calendar, a longhair grey cat is sitting on a table with its back to the […]

The Doomsday Machine (1972)

The Doomsday Machine (1972)

Directed by: Harry Hope, Lee Sholem This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Synopsis: A Doomsday Machine threatens the Earth while a manned space mission to Venus goes awry. Kitty Cameo: At the beginning of the film a female spy (Chia Essie Lin) is carrying a cat outside the walls of a guarded building. She […]

The Mentalist – “Red Sky in the Morning”

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 […]

A Jolly Good Furlough (1943)

A Jolly Good Furlough (1943)

Directed by: Dan Gordon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: After sinking numerous enemy ships, Popeye is granted a month’s furlough which he hopes to spend at Olive Oyl’s house. But she takes off and leaves him with his nephews who are practicing their home defense […]

Cornwall Calling (1948)

Cornwall Calling (1948)

Directed by: T.R. Thumwood Synopsis: A promotional film for the Austin engine shows them being installed in a yacht which then takes a pleasure cruise along the Cornish coast. Reality Cats: While touring Mevagissey, two longhair black cats are sitting on the narrow street where the women are walking. Purr Blurs: Earlier in Polperro a […]

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)

Directed by: Dick Richards Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Driving instructor Rafferty (Alan Arkin) gets tangled up with two eccentric drifters, Frisbee (Mackenzie Phillips) and Mac (Sally Kellerman), after they kidnap him at gunpoint. Kitty Cameo: Despite their strained beginnings, Rafferty befriends the girls and […]