Director Otto Preminger tugs determinedly at the heartstrings, and, despite the odd slip into sentimentality and plot contrivance, gets through to the target in his beguilingly sweet and sensitive 1970 drama Tell Me That You […]
Marlon Brando stars in the awkward 1956 comedy drama film The Teahouse of the August Moon about US troops confronting Oriental culture in Okinawa. Brando shows a rare comic touch, but it is very uncomfortable […]
The 18-year-old Jason Bateman takes over from Michael J Fox as his character Scott Howard’s college boxing werewolf cousin Todd Howard, a struggling teenager who turns into a wolf, in director Christopher Leitch’s 1987 Teen […]
Director Rod Daniel’s 1985 comedy Teen Wolf stars Eighties teen idol Michael J Fox, who is reasonably winsome as Scott Howard, the hairy hero of this surprisingly big-hit comedy about a high school student who […]
Writer-producer-director Larry Cohen’s goofy, lively and engaging 1981 horror spoof Full Moon High has a similar plot to the later Teen Wolf (1985) in its story about a school kid (Adam Arkin) who turns into […]
Director Peter Masterson’s shaky 1988 romantic comedy drama Full Moon in Blue Water is a stagey, wordy character drama with Gene Hackman appearing unhappy and ill at ease as Floyd, a beleaguered hero whose wife […]
Co-writer/ director Francis Annan’s real-life thriller Escape from Pretoria is a good old-fashioned prison escape story, with a commendably intense and non-starry performance by Daniel Radcliffe as a Seventies jailed ANC activist who makes a huge […]
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