Directed by: Don Siegel Synopsis: A social worker (James Whitmore) tries to get through to hoodlum kids running amok in the streets. Purr Blur: Near the end of the film, Frankie (John Cassavetes), Angelo (Sal Mineo) and Lou (Mark Rydell) crouch in an alley in anxious anticipation of an impending event. After a moment of […]
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: After a group of teenagers gain access to a department store at night, they become targeted by a disgruntled police officer who blames them for his troubles. Kitty Cameo: […]
Directed by: Robert Bresson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A teenaged girl named Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) suffers indignity at the hands of her family and neighbors. Kitty Cameo: Near the end of the movie, Mouchette is called into the home of an elderly, death-obsessed rich […]
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino Synopsis: A group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers plot to murder Hitler at the same time a young Jewish refugee is planning a similar attack against the Nazis. Purr Blur: The leader of the soldiers, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) is captured and taken from the theater in a truck. As the […]
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a traumatized war veteran who gets caught up in a complicated situation when asked to rescue the daughter of a politician from a sex ring. Kitty Cameo: After things go awry, Joe […]
Original Title: Gycklarnas afton Directed by: Ingmar Bergman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Albert Johansson (Åke Grönberg) is tired of circus life and tries to reconcile with his successful wife much to the dismay of his lover and fellow circus performer Anne (Harriet Andersson). Cat […]
Directed by: Nigel Cole Synopsis: Based on a true story. The members of a British Woman’s Club decide to pose in tastefully nude photographs for a charity calendar. Purr Blur: During a montage sequence showing the photo shoots for the calendar, a longhair grey cat is sitting on a table with its back to the […]
Directed by: Harry Hope, Lee Sholem This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Synopsis: A Doomsday Machine threatens the Earth while a manned space mission to Venus goes awry. Kitty Cameo: At the beginning of the film a female spy (Chia Essie Lin) is carrying a cat outside the walls of a guarded building. She […]
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: Sam Wood Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Maggie (Marie Dressler) and Lizzie (Polly Moran) are friends turned rival mothers-in-law when Lizzie accidentally starts a run on Maggie’s family bank. Purr Blur: After taking all of her money out of the bank, Lizzie is […]