Derek Winnert

The Teahouse of the August Moon *** (1956, Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 9,472

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 […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

Teen Wolf Too * (1987, Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand) – Classic Movie Review 9471

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 […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

Teen Wolf ** (1985, Michael J Fox, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti) – Classic Movie Review 9470

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 […]

Mar, 06

Full Moon High *** (1981, Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon) – Classic Movie Review 9469

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 […]

Mar, 06

Full Moon in Blue Water ** (1988, Gene Hackman, Teri Garr, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 9468

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 […]

Mar, 06

Escape from Pretoria **** (2020, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page) – Movie Review 

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 […]

Mar, 06

Captain Boycott *** (1947, Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 9467

Irish farmers break off the yoke of the wicked English landlords, in co-writer/ co-producer/ director Frank Launder’s fair Victorian historical drama, Captain Boycott (1947), set in 1880. It is strongly cast, though Stewart Granger (as […]

Mar, 06

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