Also known as: Cairo Station Starring: Youssef Chahine, Hind Rostom, Farid Shawqi Directed by: Youssef Chahine Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains minor spoilers for this movie! Synopsis: Qinawi (Youssef Chahine) is a lame young man who is hired by a newspaper seller at the busy Cairo train station. The young man becomes obsessed with Hannuma […]
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Gigot (1962)
Seven Arts Productions Starring: Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, Diane Gardner Also starring: Orangey Directed by: Gene Kelly Synopsis: This Chaplinesque film is reminiscent of a silent era comedy in that it includes both humor and pathos. Gigot (Jackie Gleason) is a mute janitor who lives quietly in a small French town where he is taken advantage of and ridiculed […]
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Orion Pictures Corporation Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, William Sadler Directed by: Peter Hewitt Synopsis: Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are back, but they aren’t the successful rock stars they thought they would be. They’re out of high school and working at Pretzels n’ Cheese to make ends meet. Little do they know that […]
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Nelson Entertainment Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin Directed by: Stephen Herek Synopsis: Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are two most excellent dudes who dream of starting a rock band. But first they must pass history class, and if they don’t they will be separated by Ted’s dad who plans to send him to a […]
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Cloud Atlas ProductionsStarring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo WeavingDirected by: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains minor spoilers for this movie! Synopsis: A complex and beautifully filmed epic based on the novel by David Mitchell covering many different eras to paint a picture of how lives interconnect […]
The Lady With 700 Cats (2011)
Painless Productions Narrated by: Jane Lynch Synopsis: A fascinating documentary about Lynea Lattanzio, a woman whose made it her mission to save as many cats as possible with California’s largest no-cage, no-kill cat sanctuary, The Cat House on the Kings, located near Fresno. Lynea’s is an inspiring and fascinating story well worth watching and sharing. Reality […]
It Happened One Night (1934)
Columbia Pictures Corporation Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert Directed by: Frank Capra Synopsis: A spoiled heiress named Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert), angry over her father’s insistance that she annull a secret marriage, decides to run away. Eventually she bumps into a newspaper reporter named Peter Warne (Clark Gable) who, sensing a story, threatens to spill the beans on […]
Thriller – “The Storm”
Original Air Date: January 22, 1962Starring: Boris Karloff, Nancy Kelly, David McLean, James GriffithGuest Starring: BabaDirected by: Herschel Daugherty Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains minor spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Janet Willsom (Nancy Kelly) returns to her isolated home on the night of a terrible storm and spends some nerve-wracking moments waiting for her husband (David […]
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Paramount Pictures Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen Also Starring: Orangey Directed by: Blake Edwards Synopsis: A wonderful telling of Truman Capote’s novella (with a vastly different ending from the original story!) Paul Varjack (George Peppard) is a struggling writer who is being “kept” by an older woman (Patricia Neal.) He moves into an apartment building […]
Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) (2008)
EFTIStarring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik DahlDirected by: Tomas Alfredson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this movie! Synopsis: Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) is an outcast at school, tormented by bullies and misunderstood by his classmates. When a mysterious girl named Eli (Lina Leandersson) moves into the apartment next to his, […]