Stephen Davies Movies
- 2002
Infected with the virus unleashed by Irina's successor Sark (David Anders), Vaughn (Michael Vartan) has but a few days to live. In order to find an antidote for the virus, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is forced to place her trust in the highly unreliable Irina (Lena Olin). Ultimately, Syd finds herself at the deserted Paldinski nuclear-sub training base in Estonia, where she is confronted by Sark. With surprising expansiveness, Sark offers to spare Sydney and give her the antidote -- but only if Sloane (Ron Rifkin) is delivered into the hands of assassins. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1997
An artificial man's attempts to become a better person could turn him into a walking weapon in this episode of the sci-fi television series Star Trek: Voyager. Holographic physician The Doctor (Robert Picardo) has decided he could stand an upgrade in both his personality and his level of efficiency, and be begins developing a series of sub-programs based on the thought patterns of several great men of medicine and good will. However, Lieutenant Torres (Roxann Dawson) warns him that the sub-programs could have unexpected side effects, and it turns out she's right -- The Doctor begins behaving in an unpredictable and violent manner, and it becomes imperative to purge him of the new data before disaster strikes. Meanwhile, when the Mikhals, a band of interstellar gypsies, cross the path of the Vopyager, Kes (Jennifer Lien) becomes infatuated with Zahir (David Lee Smith), one of the nomadic pilots, and she begins to wonder if she should run away with him. Star Trek: Voyager 161: Darkling first aired on February 19, 1997. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Roxann Dawson
- 1995
Bashir and O'Brien are captured by a renegade band of Jem'Hadar. Desirous of breaking free from the Dominion, the rebels force Bahir to help them. To do this, the doctor must wean them from their addiction to a powerful, mind-controlling drug, even though he strongly suspects that the Jem'Hadar intend to kill him whether he cures them or not. Scott MacDonald guest stars as rebel leader Goran'Agar. Originally broadcast October 20, 1995, "The Hippocratic Oath" was written by Nicholas Corea and Lisa Klink. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1994
The silly spirit of Revenge of the Nerds lives on in this made-for-television sequel. Curtis Armstrong returns as Booger, and this time around the nerds are gathering for his wedding to a wealthy upper-class girl. As the nerds plan a wild bachelor party, the girl's father is busy hiring an investigator to look into Booger's past and hopefully stop the wedding. ~ Bernadette McCallion, Rovi
- 1993
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began its seven-season run with this two hour episode. The episode harked back to the classic 1990 Next Generation season-ender "Best of Both Worlds," wherein the insidious Borg took over the mind and shape of Captain Jean-Luc Picard to launch an attack on the Federation. Three years later, Benjamin Sisko, survivor of the Borg attack, is assigned as commander of Deep Space Nine, a run-down former Cardassian space station in Bajoran territory. Sisko's first assignment is to oversee repairs of Deep Space Nine, but as the story progresses, he finds that he has been predestined to repair the tattered remnants of Bajor's ruined economy. Patrick Stewart guest stars in his familiar role of Captain Picard, who the embittered Sisko holds responsible for his own wife's death. Written by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, "Emissary" was originally telecast on January 2, 1993. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1991
The Berlin Conspiracy, an interesting and surprisingly still timely espionage thriller directed by Terence Winkless, is the story of cooperation between two competing world forces to save the world from biological weapons. As the Berlin Wall Crumbles, four canisters containing biological weapons are stolen by European terrorists. The East and West must work together to stop the terrorists from selling the weapons to the highest bidder. It is up to CIA agent Harry Spangler (Marc Singer) and Klaus Heinlein (Stephen Davies) an East German Agent to overcome their own difference and get the weapons back. The Berlin Conspiracy is a fast action, interesting thriller, with a timeless theme. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi
- 1983
From the opening notes of John Cameron's bluesy musical score, we know we're in for an authentic recreation of the 1940s milieu inhabited by Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe. Powers Boothe stars as Marlowe in "The Pencil," the first of five hour-long mysteries produced for the HBO cable service. The detective must fend off a steady stream of syndicate hit men to protect a racketeer "pencilled" for extinction by the mob. William Kearns plays the marked man, evocatively nicknamed "Violets." Also on hand is Kathryn Leigh Scott as the requisite Mysterious Lady. Though the first Marlowe installment to be filmed, "The Pencil" was the third to be telecast; it debuted on April 30, 1983. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1980
Scott Baio plays the son of ex-hockey star Don Murray, who has reacted to the loss of his career with a steadily increasing reliance upon liquor. Baio begins to excel athletically in school, but when the inevitable disappointments set in, he begins to imitate his father's booze intake. Lance Kerwin plays Baio's best friend, who picks up on the early warning signs and tries to keep Baio from descending into alcoholism. Made for television, Boy Who Drank Too Much was intended as a "breakthrough" role for teen idol Scott Baio, who is in fact better than usual here. Based on a novel by Shep Greene, the film was cluttered up with too many superfluous subplots, including the pregnancy of one of Baio's teachers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1977
The "heavy" in this episode is a crooked federal narcotics agent. Enjoying a brisk sideline of peddling dope during his off-hours, the agent commits murder when one of his customers discovers his true identity. Meanwhile, undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) tries to root out the rotten apple in the law-enforcement barrel. Originally slated to air on January 5, 1977, "Don't Kill the Sparrow" was bumped forward to January 12. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Blake, Edward Grover, (more)
- 2005
- R
- Add Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis to Queue Add Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis to top of Queue
A pair of orphaned teens experience an unexpected reunion with their parents in this fourth installment of the long-running Return of the Living Dead franchise. After a traffic accident kills his folks, high-school senior Julian (John Keefe) leads a more or less typical suburban life. Sure, he's a little depressed, and sure, his brother, Jake (Alexandru Geoana), has a problem with matches. But otherwise everything is business as usual. All of that changes when their friend Zeke (Elvin Dandel) is injured in a dirt-bike accident and rushed to the hospital. Although the authorities claim Zeke is dead, he's actually carted off to a secret laboratory by the evil Hybratech corporation, whose scientists plan to experiment on him with a chemical that can reanimate the dead. Unfortunately for Julian and Jake, their uncle Charles (Peter Coyote) is one of the bad guys -- and he's not above using members of his own family as test subjects. With a group of friends in tow, the boys must infiltrate Hybratech's lab, find Zeke, and fend off a horde of angry zombies. Filmed back to back in Romania and Ukraine with Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave, Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis premiered on the SciFi Channel cable network before receiving a DVD release. Both films were directed by Ellory Elkayem, who previously helmed Eight Legged Freaks. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
- Starring:
- Aimee Lynn Chadwick, Cory C. Hardrict, (more)
- 1995
- R
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham) gives the real Dillinger (Martin Sheen) an offer he can't refuse: rob millions from a secluded vault or watch his wife and child get whacked. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- 1993
- R
Star Wars saga costar Billy Dee Williams once more takes to the Great Beyond in Alien Intruder. The film is set in the future and the plot concerns a malevolent extraterrestrial virus which insinuates itself upon the Earth. Cleverly, the virus takes the shape of voluptuous Tracy Scoggins. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Billy Dee Williams, Melinda Armstrong, (more)
In Rage and Honor, Cynthia Rothrock is featured as a full-time high-school teacher/part-time karate instructor who's out to protect one of her students who innocently witnesses and films a mob drug transaction. He's caught and beaten but keeps the film from the bad guys. Finding and helping him is an Australian foreign-exchange cop who also gets involved in the fracas when he's set up for a murder by some cop cohorts who've gone bad. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, (more)
Two business rivals, a domineering careerwoman (Mary Crosby) and her rival (Peter Scolari), make life hard for each other while scratching their way to the top. ~ John Bush, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Scolari, Mary Crosby, (more)
A science project goes awry and the world is threatened by giant cockroaches in this horror outing. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, (more)
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention camp. He assumes command after Cathcart (Lawrence Pressman) is dragged off to be tortured. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey Jones, (more)
In this comedy, a relocation to Florida throws lowlife New Yorkers Barney (Paul Rodriguez) and Jake (Michael O'Keefe) into a dilemma when Jake falls for a beautiful schoolteacher, Olivia Farragut (Lucinda Jenney), who is struggling to find enough money to keep her school open. However, when they discover that Olivia stands to inherit a fortune, if only she will marry a true gentlemen, Jake decides to transform himself into the epitome of good breeding. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, (more)
- 1980
- R
John Byrum wrote and directed this loosely based biographical tale of Beat author Jack Kerouac and Neal and Carolyn Cassady. John Heard stars as Jack Kerouac, and the film chronicles the Beat lifestyle that shaped the literary and social forces brewing and overflowing in Kerouac's imagination, resulting in the publication of Kerouac's seminal novel On the Road. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek play the Cassadys, enmeshed in a love-hate relationship that forms the backbone of the film. Kerouac drifts in and out of their lives as the Cassadys take up residence in San Francisco. Ray Sharkey is also on hand as the manic Ira, a thinly veiled character based on Alan Ginsberg. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, (more)
John Mackenzie's masterfully directed British crime drama features a star-making performance by Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand, a successful London gangster whose world falls apart over the course of one weekend. Shand controls the London docks and is planning a big real estate deal, financed by money from the American mob and given the okay by the London organization. His world is sweet -- he lives in a fancy penthouse, he owns a yacht, and has a sensitive and intelligent mistress. But suddenly a bomb explodes inside his Rolls Royce, another bomb destroys a pub he owns, and a third is found inside his casino. Shand can't understand who would suddenly want him dead, particularly over the Easter weekend, when representatives from the American mafia are coming into town to discuss investing in Shands's real estate project. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, (more)
- 1989
- PG13
An alien breed attacks the crew members of an ocean-floor seabase in this Roger Corman sci-fi thriller production. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bradford Dillman, Priscilla Barnes, (more)
In this Bill Murray-driven remake of the 1946 Tyrone Power film, Murray plays the lead, Larry Darrel, a World War I survivor who takes off on a foreign trek to discover the meaning of his life. Apparently Murray said he'd film Ghostbusters only if Columbia would let him do Razor's Edge. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, (more)
- 1998
- NR
This low-budget sci-fi horror film from the Roger Corman stable stars Athena Massey as an alien vampire jellyfish who takes over the body of an Earth woman. Operating from a dead fortune-teller's house, Massey proceeds to kill a lot of people, hanging them upside-down and draining their blood before zapping them with pink electric bolts from her eyes. Steven Bauer is the doctor who falls in love with Massey, and there's an alien biker cop who comes after her with murder on his mind. The effects are pretty silly, but Massey and Bauer are engaging leads, and fans of the genre should be mildly amused. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
- Starring:
- Steven Bauer, Athena Massey, (more)
Writer/director John Byrum filmed this bizarre and controversial period picture on one massive set. It takes place in the 1930s, and stars Richard Dreyfuss as Boy Wonder, a once-great Hollywood director, who spends all of his time in decrepitude in his rococo mansion (which will soon be leveled and replaced by a major highway), half-soused, unshaven and clad in his bathrobe and pajamas. Instead of shooting major Hollywood pictures, this impotent has-been is now reduced to shooting pornographic films with a coke-addled actress, Harlene (Veronica Cartwright) and a moronic leading man, Rex (Stephen Davies). Rex's employer, the financier Big Mac (Bob Hoskins) turns up, bringing along his shy and dim-bulb fiancee, Cathy Cake (Jessica Harper), whom he treats condescendingly but hopes to launch to megastardom as a movie actress. When Harlene overdoses, Rex and Big Mac haggle over her body. Mac then leaves Cathy with Boy Wonder, who tells the burned-out director that her one dream in life is to appear in movies, and asks if she could pose for insert shots for his next stag film. By shooting the inserts, Boy Wonder manages to regain his potency, but he is completely put off by Cathy, who suddenly realizes, after the fact, that the camera wasn't running. At that point, Big Mac returns and catches them in the filmmaking process. Although he is not really sure what went on, Big Mac vamooses with Boy Wonder's camera and paraphernalia and takes Cathy with him. Meanwhile, an aspiring thesp named Clark Gable turns up at the door, wanting Boy Wonder to direct him to stardom. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, (more)
Rating Systems
Blockbuster
BLOCKBUSTER name, design and related marks are trademarks of Blockbuster L.L.C.
2013 Blockbuster L.L.C. All rights reserved.
Portions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation. 2013 Rovi Corporation.