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 […]
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 […]
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