Icon Entertainment International Starring: Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl Directed by: Mel Gibson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A boy named Chuck (Nick Stahl) seeks the tutoring of a former teacher and recluse named McLeod (Mel Gibson) who has been disfigured in an accident. Featured Feline: Chuck lives with his […]
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Columbia Pictures Corporation Starring: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Elisabeth Moss Directed by: James Mangold Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some major spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Based loosely on the real-life story by Susanna Kaysen. Susanna (Winona Ryder), a young woman in the 1960’s, checks herself into a mental hospital for treatment and becomes […]
Parenthood (1989)
Universal Pictures Starring: Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen Directed by: Ron Howard Synopsis: The Buckmans are a multigenerational family who find themselves dealing with the ins and outs of parenthood in all its various forms. Purr Blur: At the start of the big Little League game near the end of the film the scoreboard is shown. Behind the chain link […]
The Late Show (1977)
Warner Bros. Starring: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin Directed by: Robert Benton Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Ira Wells (Art Carney) is an aging gumshoe who is jolted out of retirement when he’s asked to find the kidnapped cat belonging to an eccentric young woman named Margo (Lily Tomlin). […]
Kidnapped (1960)
Walt Disney Productions Starring: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Miles Malleson Directed by: Robert Stevenson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some major spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. David Balfour (James MacArthur) is kidnapped by the order of his sneaky uncle Ebenezer and finds himself facing danger and […]
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – “Monster in the Box”
Original Air Date: February 15, 2007 Starring: William Petersen, Kathleen Quinlan Directed by: Jeffrey Hunt Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: A serial killer who sends miniature dioramas of his crime scenes is thought to have committed suicide until another miniature crime scene arrives, this time before the murder occurs. Kitty […]
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Starring: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne Directed by: John Landis Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: American travellers David Kessler (David Naughton) and Jack Goodman (Griffin Dunne) are warned by locals not to go on to the Scottish moors at night under a full moon. They do […]
When the Wind Blows (1930)
Hal Roach Studios Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Jackie Cooper, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins Directed by: James W. Horne Synopsis: Kennedy the cop is walking his beat on a scary, windy night as Jackie accidentally gets locked out of his house and sets off a burglary panic in the neighborhood. Purr Blur: As the short begins, the windy neighborhood street at night […]
Of Unknown Origin (1983)
Warner Bros. Starring: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale Directed by: George P. Cosmatos Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: It’s man vs. rat as Bart Hughes (Peter Weller) becomes obsessed with the rat that has invaded his renovated New York brownstone. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): In one scene Bart is walking […]
Georgia Rule (2007)
Morgan Creek Productions Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman Directed by: Garry Marshall Synopsis: A young troubled girl named Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) is sent to live with her grandmother Georgia (Jane Fonda) by her exasperated mother Lilly (Felicity Huffman) which leads to the opening of wounds both old and new. Kitty Cameos: Some of the action takes place […]