Original Air Date: December 22, 1966 Directed by: John Erman Synopsis: Working as a teacher before becoming an actress, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) feels sorry for one student named Tommy (Chris Shea) whose parents can’t make it home to spend Christmas with their son, so she volunteers to spend the holidays at the empty school […]
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Happy! – “Destroyer of Worlds”
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: January 24, 2018 Directed by: Brian Taylor Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Reunited, Sax and Happy make one last push to save Hailey. Blue and Isabella come to blows over a dark family secret and Amanda pursues a dangerous lead […]
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Directed by: Olivia Newman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Based on the book by Delia Owens. Kya Clark (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a reclusive girl living alone in a North Carolina marshland, faces those who have ostracized her when she is accused of murder. Cat Burglar (Scene […]
The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
Directed by: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Synopsis: This full-length animated feature finds Fred Flintstone (voiced by Alan Reed) having to step into the place of look-alike master spy Rock Slag which puts a crimp in his family vacation plans. Cartoon Cat: Pebbles and Bamm Bamm are playing in a Paris playground imagining the things they […]
The Missing Juror (1944)
by Mark Murton Directed by: Budd Boetticher Synopsis: The jurors of a celebrated murder case are being bumped off one by one. Reporter Joe Keats (Jim Bannon), who found the evidence that saved the man originally convicted of the crime from the hangman’s noose, returns to the case, attempting to warn the remaining six jurors […]
Star of India (1954)
by Brian HBehind the Scenes by Linda Kay Directed by: Arthur Lubin This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Pierre St. Laurent (Cornel Wilde), a French nobleman and officer, returns to France after military service in India. He finds that […]
The Life of the Party (1930)
Directed by: Roy Del Ruth Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Flo (Winnie Lightner) and Dot (Irene Delroy) are two struggling women who decide to take up gold digging. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Ending up in Havana, the girls meet up with Colonel Joy (Charles Butterworth), […]
The Secret Place (1957)
by Brian H Directed by: Clive Donner Synopsis: Freddie Haywood (Michael Brooke) is a pre-teen boy living in a poor district of London. He has a crush on the pretty girl Molly Wilson (Belinda Lee) who runs a small store. Molly’s boyfriend Gerry Carter (Ronald Lewis), a member of a gang, steals some jewels and […]
Dr. Strange (1978)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Philip DeGuere Jr. This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the evil and slinky sorceress Morgan LeFay (Jessica Walter) is returned to Earth by The Nameless One (David Hooks) to […]
Death in Paradise – “A Dash Of Sunshine”
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: February 12, 2013 Directed by: Alrick Riley This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: When an English tourist, June Anderson (Kim Thomson), is found dead in a rented luxury villa strangled by her own scarf, […]