Perry Mason – “The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather”

Perry Mason – “The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather”

by Ted Davis Original Air Date: May 27, 1961 Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Young and credulous David Gideon (Karl Held) is romantically involved with the experienced and wily Dorine Hopkins (Patricia Barry), who is married to the obnoxious Tony […]

The Maiden Heist (2009)

The Maiden Heist (2009)

Directed by: Peter Hewitt Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Museum security guards Roger (Christopher Walken), Charles (Morgan Freeman) and George (William H. Macy) are obsessed with specific works of art and plan to steal the pieces when they find out the entire exhibition is moving overseas. […]

Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story (2017)

Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story (2017)

by Ted Davis Directed by: Jon Brewer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A well-intentioned but disappointing documentary about the remarkable and multi-talented musician Mick Ronson, perhaps best known as David Bowie’s brilliant guitarist during the early 1970s, which encompassed the Ziggy Stardust era. Reality Cats: […]

Racing Lady (1937)

Racing Lady (1937)

Directed by: Wallace Fox Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Ruth Martin (Ann Dvorak) tries to help her father Tom (Harry Carey) raise a winning race horse and ends up being courted by a fellow horseman named Steve (Smith Ballew.) Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): Early in the […]

The Big Shot (1931)

The Big Shot (1931)

Directed by: Ralph Murphy, Edward Sedgwick Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: Ray Smith (Eddie Quillan) is an ambitious young man who invests, sight unseen, in an auto camp that turns out to be a wreck. Kitty Cameos: As Ray first enters the Blue Bird Auto […]

Holler (2020)

Holler (2020)

Directed by: Nicole Riegel Synopsis: A teenaged girl named Ruth (Jessica Barden) reluctantly works with an illegal scrapping crew to pay for a college education, even though she doubts the benefits an education will give her. Kitty Cameos: Cats are seen in a few establishing shots. One has a bicolor tabby and white cat struggling […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sugar and Spite – Behind the Scenes of The Uncanny

Sugar and Spite – Behind the Scenes of The Uncanny

There have been many movies involving cat attacks in which a subject finds themselves on the wrong side of flying fur and threatening claws. And there are have many movies about cats taking revenge on abusive or evil people. But The Uncanny stands alone as one of the most extensive examples of cat-centric revenge ever […]