Take the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, add a dash of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and a lot more rum. Shake well and you'll have something resembling Dead Man's Chest, a bombastic sequel that's enjoyable as long as you don't think too hard about it. The film opens with the interrupted wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), both of whom are arrested for aiding in the escape of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the first film. Their freedom can only be obtained by getting Captain Jack's compass, which is linked to a key that's linked to a chest belonging to Davy Jones, an undead pirate with a tentacle face and in possession of a lot of people's souls. If you're already confused, don't worry--plot is definitely not the... Learn More
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I read the book many years ago, but had to wait over 30 years to see this movie. Two culprits can be blamed for that long exile: Texas and Michael Jackson. The Michael Jackson angle has to do with some Beatles music being used in part of the soundtrack and the high rate of royalties necessary to liberate their use (hopefully, the DVD will have this). The Texas angle comes from the Brits portraying Texans as some square-dancing, KKK-style, Bible-belt wackos. I live in Texas and as a spymovie fanatic in the Sixties, I could not understand how I missed this movie. Viewing revealed all. If this movie was shown anywhere in Texas back then, it would have been boycotted like a post-Lennon diatribe Beatles record. The Russians (make that commie b*st*rds) seem to be the only ones competent, while... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Michael Caine - Karl Malden Director(s): Ken Russell DVD Release Date: Released the 04 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It's easy to understand why the late, great screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky removed his name from the credits of Altered States and substituted the pseudonym Sidney Aaron. After all, Chayefsky was a revered dramatist whose original source novel was intended as a serious exploration of altered consciousness, inspired by the immersion-tank experiments of Dr. John Lilly in the 1970s. In the hands of maverick director Ken Russell, however, Altered States became a full-on sensory assault, using symbolic imagery and mind- blowing special effects to depict one man's physical and hallucinatory journey through the entire history of human evolution. It's a brazenly silly film redeemed by its intellectual ambition--a dazzling extravaganza that's in love with science and scientists, and... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): William Hurt Director(s): Ken Russell DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This is an accurate account of the famous (infamous, more likely) Dreyfus affair, a scandal that nearly drove France to civil war at the turn of the century. And it could have been a good movie too, if director Ken Rusell hadn't overdone it miserably by pretending "the whole thing was a comedy"!
The film manages to get its facts right (a rare acomplishment for a Hollywood movie), features an elaborate production, with fine costumes and sets (although its 'Paris' resembles London), and boasts a great cast led by Richard Dreyfuss, who gives an above-his-usual performance as the officer trying against all odds to save Dreyfus, while disliking him personally for being a Jew.
Why, then, spoil it with all those cartoonish "comic" details that serve no... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Ken Russell DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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I'm a fan of both Ken Russell and Edgar Allen Poe and looked forward, in anticipation, of Ken Russell's reworking of Poe's horror stories. Well I was definately schocked: not in horror, but by the fact I wasted money on such a bad film. Calling the film amateurish would give it a redeaming value. All the performances were appalling: what's with all the BAD accents? Actors with teeth that bad should never show them, much less get a close up (and no it wasn't makeup)! Now I know why I couldn't find this film to rent first--it's that bad. ... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Ken Russell DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships within 2 to 3 days
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Wittily updated from one of Dracula author Bram Stoker's lesser-known horror novels, The Lair of the White Worm is a camp classic that only Ken Russell could have delivered. It's got all the perversity one expects from the bombastic director of Tommy and Altered States: sensible plotting, intelligent dialogue laced with double entendre, graphic imagery with Boschian intensity, and a mischievous disregard for good taste and decorum. In other words, it's heretically hilarious, especially when skeptical Lord D'Ampton (fresh-faced Hugh Grant, in one of his earliest films) begins to suspect that seductive neighbor Sylvia (Amanda Donohoe, game for anything) is connected to the local legend of a monstrous serpent that feeds on sacrificial virgins. Evidence mounts with... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Amanda Donohoe - Hugh Grant Director(s): Ken Russell DVD Release Date: Released the 19 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Those who believe British miniseries to be too proper and corseted may want to make an exception for Ken Russell's 1992, four-hour BBC adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's scandalous novel. Between the full frontal female nudity and empowering shed-rocking sex scenes, this is something for everyone to have a randy good time. To save you the bother of fast-forwarding, episodes two and three contain the very naughtiest bits involving the illicit affair between "loyal wife, good companion" Constance Chatterly (Joely Richardson) and Oliver Mellors (Sean Bean), gamekeeper to Constance's embittered, paralyzed husband (James Wilby). When he insists his wife take a lover and produce an heir to his fortune, he didn't have the lowly "wild man of the woods" in mind. Neither did Constance, but soon enough... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Ken Russell DVD Release Date: Released the 24 June 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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