Directed by: Dick Richards Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Driving instructor Rafferty (Alan Arkin) gets tangled up with two eccentric drifters, Frisbee (Mackenzie Phillips) and Mac (Sally Kellerman), after they kidnap him at gunpoint. Kitty Cameo: Despite their strained beginnings, Rafferty befriends the girls and […]
Directed by: Joel Hopkins Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Kate (Emma Thompson) and Richard (Pierce Brosnan) are a divorced couple who reunite for a crazy heist scheme to recoup their pension money stolen by a company takeover. Cat Credit: An animated black cat is part […]
Directed by: David Bradley Synopsis: A 16mm silent production of the Ibsen play about the ne’re-do-well anti-hero. Kitty Cameo: Peer Gynt (Charlton Heston in his film debut) visits his ailing mother (Betty Hanisee). She tells him she is dying but he doesn’t want to face reality. He tries to take her mind off dark things […]
Directed by: Dan Harris Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Members of the Travis family deal with inner demons and a lack of communication when their promising eldest son commits suicide. Kitty Cameo: Tim Travis (Emile Hirsch) is the younger brother who struggles with his feelings […]
Original Air Date: October 1984 Directed by: Bob Hughes Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: This episode of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy show starring Dave Coulier features a segment about a girl who brings home a “stray” cat. Kitty Cameo: The sketch begins showing the girl luring […]
Directed by: Harold Becker Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Happily married couple Andy (Bill Pullman) and Tracy Safien (Nicole Kidman) take Dr. Jed Hill (Alec Baldwin) in as a border while a killer stalks the college campus where Andy works. Kitty Cameo: At the beginning […]
Original Title: Léon Morin, prêtre Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In France during World War II, an atheist widow named Barny (Emmanuelle Riva) decides to test Father Léon Morin’s (Jean-Paul Belmondo) beliefs and finds herself drawn to the man and his […]
Original Air Date: August 28, 2015 Directed by: José Padilha This review contains Kitty Carnage Warnings! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for some episodes of the series! Synopsis: DEA agent Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook) is assigned to track down the drug dealers, particularly Pablo Escabar (Wagner Moura), who are sending […]
Directed by: Gregory La Cava Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Joe Austin (Hugh Herbert) is a dreamer who drives his wife Sarah (Edna May Oliver) crazy with his kooky get rich quick schemes, the latest of which is investing in an oil venture. Kitty Cameo: […]
English Title: O.K. Nero Directed by: Mario Soldati This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Two American sailors named Fiorello (Walter Chiari) and Jimmy (Carlo Campanini) get hit on the head outside the Colosseum and wake up in the […]