by Ted Davis Directed by: Sidney Gilliat Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Amiable working-class unemployed rental car driver Mike Rogers (Hywel Bennett) appears to have hit the jackpot when he wins and marries the fragile and lovely heiress Ellie Thomsen (Hayley Mills), who happily indulges […]
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
by Mark Murton Original French Title: Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris Directed by: Jacques Rivette Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Julie (Dominique Labourier), a daydreaming librarian, meets magician Celine (Juliet Berto) in Montmartre and they wind up sharing the same […]
House of Gucci (2021)
Directed by: Ridley Scott Synopsis: The famous fashion house of Gucci starts to come apart when Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) marries Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) and her ruthless ambition causes family members to turn on one another. Purr Blurs: Patrizia forms a friendship with a psychic named Pina Auriemma (Selma Hayek). Pina owns several cats, […]
May (2002)
Directed by: Lucky McKee This review contains a severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: May (Angela Bettis) is an awkward girl who admires perfection in people’s body parts and sets out to obtain them when relationships don’t work out. Kitty Cameo: May […]
Sledge Hammer! – “Witless”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: October 3, 1986 Directed by: Jackie Cooper This review contains Cartoonish Kitty Carnage Warnings! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: When irritated mob boss Don Phillip Souza (Al Ruscio) places a million dollar bounty on gun-loving, criminal-hating police detective Sledge Hammer […]
The Cat That Hated People (1948)
Directed by: Tex Avery Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A frustrated black cat (voiced by Paul Frees doing a Jimmy Durante style impersonation) is fed up with people and decides to escape to the moon for some relief. Cartoon Cats: The cat is sitting in […]
Calling All Curs (1939)
Directed by: Jules White Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) are running a pet hospital but get in trouble when a prized poodle is dognapped. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): The doctors get a call over an intercom […]
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
by Brian H Also Known As: Warlords of the Deep Directed by: Kevin Connor Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In the early 1900’s British archaeologist Professor Aitken (Donald Bisset) hires Captain Daniels (Shane Rimmer) to take him, Aitken’s son Charles (Peter Gilmore) and engineer Greg […]
The Protégé (2021)
Directed by: Martin Campbell Synopsis: A woman with a mysterious past, Anna (Maggie Q), is trained as a top class assassin by her mentor Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) then seeks revenge on those who are out to get them. Kitty Cameo: Anna returns home from a job and goes to the bookstore she owns where […]
Drums of Fu Manchu: Chapter Three – Ransom in the Sky (1940)
by Ted Davis Directed by: John English & William Witney Synopsis: The third chapter of the briskly paced fifteen part serial, wherein the admirably single-minded Dr. Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon) endeavors to dominate the world (yet again!), this time through the expedient of using the fabled lost scepter of Genghis Khan to unite and command […]