“Cats” isn’t quite the unmitigated disaster that some feared – or perversely hoped – but it’s not good, delivering a mostly incoherent adaptation of the long-running musical. An eclectic roster of ...

When Andrew Lloyd Webber read the screenplay for “Cats,” he knew something was missing: a song for Victoria, an abandoned cat who wasn’t in his stage musical. “She had no voice at all,” Lloyd Webber ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Type “Cats horror movie” into the YouTube search bar, and you’ll find half a dozen trailers that have been re-edited to spooky music and demonic lighting. It’s a fun ...

For the vocal coach of “Cats” — the new film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony-winning musical, opening Friday — getting the actors to actually sing like felines was hardly the purr-fect result ...

Aside from learning a beginner arrangement of “Memory” for piano when I was 15, I walked into Tom Hooper’s 2019 film adaptation of Cats with little knowledge of the hit Broadway musical it adapts. I ...

Cats (2019), which purports to be a “musical film,” is confusing and distressing from the first song all the way to the last surreal dance sequence of this nightmarish fever dream. Even now, the face ...

When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” arrived in 1981, it was a new kind of stage musical, one that became a cultural and box-office phenomenon on a global scale, running 21 years in London’s West End and ...

A Method Grizabella, a disappointing Macavity and a lot of kitty nuzzling — it’s not a satisfying adaptation, but was that even possible? By Louis Bayard “Did they freak you out?” That’s what a friend ...

After its official trailer debuted in November, many were equal parts horrified and enraged by the litany of humanoid cats preparing for the Jellicle ball and Jellicle sacrifice in “Cats.” Based on ...

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There is a strange scene — OK, there are many strange scenes — near the end of “Cats,” the flailing feline phantasmagoria coming soon to a movie theater and/or shroom party near you. A bright new ...