Your Voice (1949)

Your Voice (1949)

Synopsis: An Encyclopedia Britannica educational short about the human voice and how it works. Kitty Cameo: Several different animal voices are presented at the beginning of the film. While most of the film footage and sounds are unexceptional, the quick shot of a tabby kitten trying to climb a window screen, accompanied by the shortest, […]

Curiosity Killed a Cat (1944)

Curiosity Killed a Cat (1944)

Synopsis: A military training film about the dangers of collecting unexploded and potentially booby-trapped ordinance as souvenirs. Kitty Cameo: The short begins with footage of a tabby cat gingerly approaching a dog house. The cat enters the seemingly empty house. Only to be chased out again by a bulldog. Final Mewsings: Cats should know better […]

Saturnin, le poète (1954)

Saturnin, le poète (1954)

English Title: Sebastian the Scatterbrain Directed by: Jean Tourane Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A group of animals live peacefully in the woods until a family of ducks camp in the area and a duckling named Saturnin gets lost. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Included among […]

For My Cat Mieze (2018)

For My Cat Mieze (2018)

Original Title: Para minha gata Mieze Directed by: Wesley Gondim This review contains an implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Veterinarian Francisco (João Campos) finds himself the target of vicious hate crimes but finds a way to get revenge on his tormentors. […]

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 […]

Not So Dumb (1940)

Not So Dumb (1940)

Directed by: Robert C. Bruce Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Narrated by Frank Crumit, this short film takes a look at how animals are intelligent creatures. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): The opening scene shows a tabby cat watching a man milking a cow. Crumit explains […]

Eva (2005)

Eva (2005)

Directed by: Gaspar Noé Synopsis: This experimental short film features model Eva Herzigova in a surreal series of sexually suggestive sequences. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Jump past the strobe lights and the swimming pool scene to the four minute mark when a calico kitten steals this short. For the rest of the film, Eva is […]

The Cat Who Drank and Used Too Much (1987)

The Cat Who Drank and Used Too Much (1987)

Also Known As: Pat the Cat Directed by: Timothy Armstrong Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Pat the cat struggles with substance addiction. Featured Feline: According to the narrator, actress Julie Harris, Pat is a brown tabby cat who lives down the street and is different. […]

Tigeris Nau Nau (1967)

Tigeris Nau Nau (1967)

English Title: Tiger the Cat Directed by: Arnolds Burovs Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this Latvian short film a naughty little boy is shrunk in size and becomes threatened by the very cat he teased in a clever combination of live action footage and […]

A Winter Straw Ride (1906)

A Winter Straw Ride (1906)

Directed by: Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter Synopsis: A group of women take a sleigh ride, are pelted by boys throwing snowballs, get stuck in a rut and then chase after men through the snow in this early Edison short. Purr Blur: As the sleighs are approaching a river, a black cat runs across […]