Fun Size (2012)

Fun Size (2012)

Directed by: Josh Schwartz This review contains a Cartoonish Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A teenaged girl named Wren (Victoria Justice) has her Halloween night turned upside-down when her younger brother Albert (Jackson Nicoll) goes missing. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): During the […]

Jonathan Creek – “The Problem at Gallows Gate, Part 1”

Jonathan Creek – “The Problem at Gallows Gate, Part 1”

by Mark Murton Original Air Date: February 14, 1998 Directed by: Keith Washington Synopsis: A wealthy, young eccentric commits suicide by jumping off a balcony after discovering his girlfriend Felicity (Annabel Mullion) with someone else, but three weeks later the same man is seemingly witnessed strangling his ex-girlfriend in her house. Jonathan (Alan Davies) needs […]

The Electric Company – “Hey Diddle Diddle”

The Electric Company – “Hey Diddle Diddle”

Original Air Date: early 1970’s Directed by: Jim Simon Synopsis: A group of cool animated cats sing a jazzy song featuring double D’s. Cartoon Cats: A heavy-set cat plays the piano and sings the song Hey Diddle Diddle about a cat on a fiddle. He is accompanied by two beautiful female cat backup singers with […]

Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight (2011)

Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight (2011)

Directed by: Eliza Hittman This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Sonya (Viktoria Vinyarska), a teenaged girl living in Brooklyn with her father (Mike Pikeman) and his menagerie of cats, finds herself facing difficult choices to protect him. Cat […]

Trouble Brewing (1939)

Trouble Brewing (1939)

by Mark Murton Director: Anthony Kimmins Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: George Gullip (George Formby) has won a lot of money at the races but he’s paid with counterfeit money so he sets about tracking down the criminals himself. Kitty Cameo: In the opening scene […]

The Demi-Paradise (1943)

The Demi-Paradise (1943)

by Ted Davis Also Known As: Adventure for Two Directed by: Anthony Asquith Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In 1939, earnest Russian engineer Ivan Kouznetsoff (Laurence Olivier) visits England to manufacture his revolutionary ice-breaker propeller, but his preconceived prejudices against the English people prove to […]

The Hostage (1956)

The Hostage (1956)

by Mark Murton Director: Harold Huth Synopsis: A South American revolutionary leader is arrested and sentenced to death. In a bid to prevent the execution, his followers kidnap the president’s daughter in London. Purr Blur: An American pilot (Ron Randell) finds himself unwittingly involved in the plot when he receives a phone call from a […]

I, Monster (1971)

I, Monster (1971)

by Mark Murton Starring: Little Cat Directed by: Stephen Weeks This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film. Synopsis: In this reworking of Jekyll and Hyde, Victorian psychologist Charles Marlowe (Christopher Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients’ inhibitions. Using […]

Rumpole of the Bailey – “Rumpole and the Alternative Society”

Rumpole of the Bailey – “Rumpole and the Alternative Society”

by Ted Davis Original Air Date: April 10, 1978 Directed by: Herbert Wise Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Acerbic and aging, beleaguered Wordsworth-spouting barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) travels from London to the Western Circuit in order to defend free-spirit Kathy (Jane Asher) on a cannabis-related […]

Sara (1986)

Sara (1986)

Music Artist: Starship Directed by: Francis Delia Synopsis: A music video for the Starship song includes modern sequences with actress Rebecca De Mornay as girlfriend Sara and flashback sequences of the dustbowl with a doomed mother also named Sara. Purr Blur: In the beginning of the video in the dustbowl segment, a man wearing a […]