Stephen Davis Movies

Produced for Australian television, the live-action fantasy series Pirate Islands combined traditional swashbuckling with state-of-the-art computer graphics. While playing their favorite computer game, 15-year-old Kate Redding (Brooke Harmon) and her two younger siblings, Nicholas (Nicholas Donaldson) and Sarah (Eliza Taylor-Cotter), were sucked into the game itself, emerging on a remote archipelago in the 18th century. Here the three youthful protagonists constructed a Swiss Family Robinson-style tree house and frequently skirmished with the villainous Captain Blackheart (Colin Moody) and his buccaneers. Also making life difficult for Kate and Company were a group of ragtag youngsters, the Castaway Children. All three factions competed with one another to unearth a fabulous buried treasure. Filmed on location in Port Douglas and Melbourne, and debuting in Australia in 2002, Pirate Islands joined the Saturday-morning lineup of America's Fox Network on March 8, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

As the BBC forensics drama Waking the Dead enters into its second series, the Cold Case team attempts to capture a frightening copycat serial killer, delves deep into the dangerous London criminal underworld, attempt to solve the murder of a prominent Home Officer Advisor while being audited by the Home Office, and makes a series of unfortunate mistakes while attempting to finally bring closure to an unsolved murder case. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

A serial killer with a flair for art is on the loose and it is up to ace policewoman Kelly Wheatstone and her partner Frank Yankovitch to investigate in this Australian thriller. All of the serial killer's victims are women whose nude corpses he poses to look like the subjects of a well-known painter, Knowles. Naturally the artist is a prime suspect. Frank is quite distracted from the case by the possible philandering of his new wife Helena. He is correct and when her lover turns up dead, naturally, he is the prime suspect. It is up to the two cops to solve both murders and keep the innocent Frank out of jail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel (Aden Young) is traveling with his friend Max (Dennis Miller) on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts (David Field), a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man (Norman Kaye) who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium. Angel gets involved with other citizens of the town, and gets to know what became of the woman Max was coming back to. Just being a fresh face is enough to stir things up, but Angel brings things to a boil by bringing up memories of the past. The pot boils over, though, when Tatt comes into town and begins playing his games. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

David Keith both directs and stars in this Sri Lanka-filmed adventure spoof. Taking equal portions of "Indiana Jones," King Solomon's Mines and The Macomber Affair, the film finds Keith playing Buck Malone, a mercenary hunter, headquartered in Borneo. Hired to guide a cotton-witted married couple through the wilderness, Malone falls in love with the wife (former Playboy foldout Kathy Shower) while hubby (Brant van Hoffman) walks around in a perpetual daze. The film ventures into John & Bo Derek territory when the intrepid trio cross the path of erotically-inclined cannibals. Further Adventures of Tennesse Buck isn't exactly rocket science, but it's immensely enjoyable on a low-comedy level. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide