Directed by: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A unicorn (voiced by Mia Farrow) is shocked to learn she is the last and goes on a quest to rescue her fellow unicorns from the hands of King Haggard (voiced by Christopher […]
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Nobel Son (2007)
Directed by: Randall Miller Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An arrogant and obnoxious college professor named Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman) gets an even bigger head when he wins the Nobel Prize, clouding out most of his concern for his son Barkley (Bryan Greenberg) who has […]
The Two Faces of January (2014)
Directed by: Hossein Amini Synopsis: Rydal (Oscar Isaac), an American tour guide in Greece, gets caught up in an unsavory situation with fellow Americans Chester (Viggo Mortensen) and Colette (Kirsten Dunst). Kitty Cameos: While the trio are still in Athens, a cat can be seen standing outside of a building. Later when they arrive in […]
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Directed by: Julien Duvivier Synopsis: Pépé le Moko (Jean Gabin) is hiding out in the Casbah where authorities can’t reach him, but the crafty Inspector Slimane (Lucas Gridoux) is determined to eventually flush his quarry. Kitty Cameos: The American remake of this film, Algiers, featured some of the stock footage of the Casbah originally used […]
Surviving the Game (1994)
Directed by: Ernest Dickerson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Jack Mason (Ice-T) is homeless and living on the streets when he’s recruited by a hunting organization to help with a remote hunt, not realizing that he is to play the part of the hunted! Purr […]
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Starring: TowneDirected by: Marielle Heller This review contains an intense Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Author Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) struggles after her old Hollywood biographies fall out of favor and turns to a new way of making money; forging personal letters […]
Modern Family – “Diamond in the Rough”
Original Air Date: December 12, 2012Starring: FrostyDirected by: Gail Mancuso Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Claire (Julie Bowen) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) want to flip a house but their spouses Phil (Ty Burrell) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) don’t agree, only neither of them want to […]
Emergency – “The Unlikely Heirs”
Original Air Date: October 9, 1976Starring: SimbaDirected by: Georg Fenady Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: The crew rescue a transient with a mattress stuffed full of money and a bride who faints at her wedding. Kitty Cameo: In one segment the squad is called out to […]
Fun & Fancy Free (1947)
Directed by: Ward Kimball, Les Clark, John Lounsbery, Fred Moore, Wolfgang Reitherman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some slight spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Jiminy Cricket introduces two animated shorts, Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk. Kitty Cameo: As the film begins, Jiminy is in the library of a home. He […]
Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
Directed by: Norman Foster Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) travels to Reno to try to prove the innocence of a young woman accused of murder. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Throughout the movie, Sheriff Fletcher (Slim Summerville) follows Charlie Chan, skeptical of […]