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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WILD PALMS Is A One-Of-A-Kind Very Scary 4 1/2 Hour Science Fiction Mini-Series Ahead Of Its Time. It Is WELL REMEMBERED By Me For The Great Soundtrack And All Star Cast Including Myself As An Extra Actor In Which I Fortunately Got To Appear Within The First 25 Minutes. (I am in the House Party Scene 3x's). The DP Used Me In A Steadicam Shot As A Pivoting Point Between The Main Characters. I remember Spending The Day At That Modern House In Woodland Hills, California Hanging Out Between Takes And Eating Lunch With Ernie Hudson Who Is Very Funny In Real Life And James Belushi Who Wasn't Talking That Day As He Was Concentrating Deeply On His Role. [...] More Info About This DVD Director(s): Keith Gordon - Kathryn Bigelow - Peter Hewitt - Phil Joanou DVD Release Date: Released the 04 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This film, which again pairs Richard Gere and Kim Basinger (who starred in 1986's No Mercy), offers up elements of classic noir: a hapless man becomes intimately involved with a beautiful blonde who may or may not be who or what she appears to be. Dedicated psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Gere) reluctantly, and then more obsessively, becomes involved with Heather Evans (Basinger), the sister of his patient, Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman). Evans is unhappily married to a gangster (appropriately played by a muscular and menacing Eric Roberts in a trademark role). Gere and Basinger make a credible, if dangerous couple, and Thurman delivers a subtle, understated performance and demonstrates her range and potential.
When he emerged from film school in the mid-1980s, director Phil Joanou was touted as the next Steven Spielberg, perhaps because Spielberg took him on as a protégé briefly. Since then, it's been "Phil who?" thanks to a series of mediocre thrillers like this one. Based on one of a series of novels by James Lee Burke about a troubled ex-cop named Dave Robicheaux, this film sat on the shelf for a couple of years before finally being released in 1995. Alec Baldwin plays Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic who has put life on the New Orleans police department behind him--until a plane crashes in the lake next to his house. He rescues a young Central American girl from the wreck and adopts her--and winds up involved in a gumbo of drug running and dirty dealing involving an old pal... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Alec Baldwin - Kelly Lynch Director(s): Phil Joanou DVD Release Date: Released the 07 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When details first arose about its DVD release the speculation was it might be a bare bones release and that is exactly what it is, but despite this 'downer' the movie looks much better in this widescreen version than the formatted to fit your screen TV broadcast and video release we've been accostumed to seeing through the years.
The widescreen factor of this release almost entirely makes up for the sole 2 channel stereo audio track, the lack of secondary language and directors commentary tracks. With the Widescreen you see the real richness of the camera work done on this movie, from the beautiful panoramic view of surburban Ogden, to the rowdy pep rally scene done with a crane camera to the bald guy in the flannel shirt who turns back to watch the camera during the big... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Casey Siemaszko - Anne Ryan Director(s): Phil Joanou DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Overshadowed by GoodFellas when it was released in 1990, State of Grace gradually emerged as one of the best New York gangster films of its decade. It was also the first to feature the Irish American mob known as the Westies. Here, their territory west of Times Square is being gentrified by an unwelcome infusion of yuppie cash, squeezing them into a reluctant alliance with Mafia kingpins. Frankie (Ed Harris) is the boss; little brother Jackie (Gary Oldman) is his volatile muscle; their friend Terry (Sean Penn) has returned from an extended absence, harboring a dangerous secret while rekindling his love for Frankie and Jackie's sister Kathleen (Robin Wright, Penn's future wife). Giving one of his scariest, most violent performances, Oldman offers stark, brutal contrast to... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Sean Penn - Ed Harris - Gary Oldman Director(s): Phil Joanou DVD Release Date: Released the 03 December 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Rattle and Hum is not a film for anyone looking for an introduction to Irish band U2's career in the 1980s, but it is a vibrant portrait of an established group making its musical pilgrimage through the America it has always imagined through blues, gospel, and early rock 'n' roll. Filmmaker Phil Joanou (Heaven's Prisoners), a veteran music-video director and maker of the distractingly kinetic Three O'Clock High, finds a suitable outlet for his high energy in this juggernaut of a journey, which finds U2 collaborating with a black gospel choir and B.B. King, recording inside the legendary Sun Records studio, dropping by Graceland, and in a moment of fearlessness, performing the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" to exorcise Charles Manson's sick claim on the song. --Tom... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Bono - The Edge - Adam Clayton - Larry Mullen Jr. - B.B. King Director(s): Phil Joanou DVD Release Date: Released the 23 November 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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