Also Known As: Night Ambush Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Synopsis: Major Patrick Leigh Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) heads up a team of Crete rebels who plan to kidnap a German officer and smuggle him to Cairo. Purr Blur: When Fermor comes down from the hills to the town to set the plan in motion, […]
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Before Sunset (2004)
Directed by: Richard Linklater Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet in Paris nine years after their first (and last) encounter and spend time catching up and dealing with their unrequited feelings. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): In the opening […]
Green Acres – “Enterprising Eb”
Original Air Date: November 24, 1970 Starring: Orangey Directed by: Richard L. Bare Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Eb (Tom Lester) hopes to marry Darlene Wheeler (Judith McConnell) but confounds Oliver (Eddie Albert) at every turn. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Oliver and Lisa (Eva Gabor) visit […]
Luca (2021)
Directed by: Enrico Casarosa Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Luca (Jacob Tremblay) is an underwater dweller who finds adventure when he rises to the surface, befriends a fellow “sea monster” named Alberto (voiced by Jack Dylan Grazer) and spends a summer in an Italian fishing […]
Even as IOU (1942)
Directed by: Del Lord Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) try to get rich at the race track to help a homeless woman and her daughter. Kitty Cameo: The Stooges find the mother and daughter living […]
The Humbling (2014)
Directed by: Barry Levinson This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Simon Axler (Al Pacino) is an aging actor who suffers a breakdown brought on by encroaching dementia. After returning home from an institution, he begins an affair with a […]
Never Too Late (1965)
Directed by: Bud Yorkin This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Harry Lambert (Paul Ford) is shocked when his fifty-something-year-old wife Edith (Maureen O’Sullivan) announces she is pregnant. Kitty Cameo: Harry owns a lumber mill where he employs his […]
Absolute Beginners (1986)
Directed by: Julien Temple This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Set in London in the late 1950’s, this musical finds a photographer named Colin (Eddie O’Connell) trying to win the heart of fashion model Crepe Suzette (Patsy Kensit). Purr […]
Savior (1998)
Directed by: Peter Antonijevic Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A Foreign Legion mercenary named Guy (Dennis Quaid) is hardened by a personal tragedy but begins to soften when confronted by the horrors of the war in Serbia. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Guy saves a pregnant […]
That Girl – “The Detective Story”
Original Air Date: March 14, 1968 Directed by: Hal Cooper Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: After receiving scary obscene phone calls, Ann (Marlo Thomas) enlists the aid of Detective Sergeant Ray Mandel (Hal Buckley) which does not please her jealous boyfriend Donald (Ted Bessell). Cat Burglar […]