Directed by: Robert Siodmak Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Police Lt. Candella (Victor Mature) is torn when the oldest son of a family he has befriended kills a policeman then needs his help. Kitty Cameo: Late in the film a nurse named Frances Pruett (Betty […]
English Title: Burnt by the Sun Directed by: Nikita Mikhalkov Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov) is a hero of the Red Army who is living in an artist’s community with his family during Stalin’s Great Purge. Kitty Cameo: Near […]
Directed by: Walter Lang Synopsis: A suburban family is surprised when the live-in-babysitter they hire turns out to be the self-righteous and proper Mr. Belvedere (Clifton Webb). Purr Blurs: In one scene, Harry King (Robert Young), the father of the house, is pulling into his driveway. The camera pans along with the vehicle but Harry […]
Directed by: Ariel Vromen Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a pretty big spoiler for this film! Synopsis: The story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a cold-blooded mob killer known as “The Iceman.” Kitty Cameo: Near the end of the film, Kuklinski is preparing what appears to be egg salad sandwiches in […]
Directed by: Micah Gallo This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A private nurse named Kara (Elizabeth Roberts) moves into a house with her two children to care for a man with multiple sclerosis (Bruce Davison), unaware that an evil […]
Directed by: Tom Ford Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: English professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) finds his life in 1960’s Los Angeles difficult to bear after the loss of his love. Purr Blur: George lives next door to a typical but annoying nuclear family. As […]
Directed by: Edwin L. Marin Synopsis: Joan Kenwood (Jane Russell) is a World War II widow trying to adjust to life without the love of her life. Kitty Cameos: Joan returns to the family farm where she and her husband were happy. Before she arrives, Aunt Cissie (Connie Gilchrist) awakens Aunt Emeline (Cora Witherspoon) to […]
English Title: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Synopsis: Petra von Kant (Margit Carstensen) is a self-involved fashion designer who falls for a young model named Karin (Hanna Schygulla) and deals with the emotional ramifications of that affair. Kitty Cameos: At the beginning of the film a black cat […]
Directed by: John Huston This review contains a potential Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a MAJOR spoiler for this film! Synopsis: A missionary named Rose (Katharine Hepburn) and a riverboat captain named Charlie (Humphrey Bogart) become unlikely conspirators determined to destroy a German ship during World War I. […]
Directed by: Jacques Deray This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: François Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Roch Siffredi (Alain Delon) are two small time hoods in 1930’s Marseille who decide to team up to take down the big gangsters. Cat […]