cat people movie – Michael Broad

Cats the Movie is a modern tale of inclusion and redemption

August 4, 2019August 4, 2019 by Michael Broad

Tom Hooper working on rehersals of the Cats movie

A lot of observers of the trailer of Cats the Movie are bemused by it. They don’t know what it is about. The original stage version was somewhat mystifying. But the general commentary on Cats the Movie is that it is weird and incomprehensible. They wonder why Tom Hooper decided to direct it. Well, …

What cat breed will feature in the new James Bond movie: SPECTRE?

December 6, 2014December 6, 2014 by Michael Broad

One of the most enduring movie images from the James Bond franchise is of Donald Pleasence as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the supervillian head of SPECTRE sitting in a large, black leather, swivel desk chair stroking, sinisterly a glamorous, Chinchilla, Traditional Persian cat. The actual chair is currently up for auction and will fetch thousands …