The New York Cat Film Festival for this year starts tomorrow. The dog version starts at the same time. Just to be fair ✔️. Although the cat film festival is a more recent innovation. Both were founded by Tracie Hotchner, … continue reading…
Bagpuss was a striped tabby moggy. In other words, a mackerel tabby random bred or mixed breed cat. He was not a purebred cat. It is rare for the creators of fictional cats to think of specific cat breeds. Bagpuss … continue reading…
It is nice to hear that Will Sharpe, the director of Benedict Cumberbatch’s new film, ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ did not use CGI for the cats. Apparently, all the cats in the film are the genuine article, the … continue reading…
Yes, Chomel, a cat, is the lead character in a film by filmmaker Jason Chong who is the man behind Malaysian Film Festival 29 winner Adiwiraku. Reading between the lines I sense that this film was motivated by the Covid … continue reading…
The lyrics of the Siamese cat song are not racist in my view but the part of the film that shows two Siamese cats singing the song has been deemed to be racist and I can understand that. The two … continue reading…
It’s all over the news, Andrew Lloyd Webber criticising the movie version of his “Cats” musical which is one of the longest running theatre shows ever. It was highly successful as a theatre show and apparently a complete disaster as … continue reading…
It’s been reported that the feud over big cats between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, the founder and owner of Big Cat Rescue (BCR), as documented by Netflix in their film “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” is the most … continue reading…
For the past few weeks or more, every time I searched for ‘cats’ in Bing News a good half of the search results are about Cats the movie and in everyone of those articles the bloody reporters are heavily critical … continue reading…
If you use Bing to search for ‘cats’ the results will be swamped by crazily critical and negative reviews of Cats the movie. Every journo is jumping on the bandwagon and slagging off the movie. It started with the trailers. … continue reading…
For months when I have searched for cat news on Bing (my preferred search engine) I have been presented with page after page of updates about the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. It was becoming frustrating because I … continue reading…
Cats (the movie) is going to be massive judging by this short introduction to it by the principle players. The cast is amazing and the CGI is going to be fantastic. It is an ‘event’ as Jennifer Hudson said. The … continue reading…
By Leah – with editing and additional work by Michael Kitty Softpaws is the girlfriend of Puss, in Puss in Boots. She is declawed. Why is this featured? Kitty Softpaws is a new character in the successful computer-animated film Puss … continue reading…
A Cat in Paris is a new French animated film. It has that typical quirky French flavor! You know how they produce their cars. Well it is the same for films. If you go to the cinema in Paris, you will probably … continue reading…
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