Philip Davis

Total Credits at Criticker: 34 (Actor), 2 (Director)
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After her last encounter, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor.
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. (imdb)
London, 1965: Like many other youths Jimmy's hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in mailing division... (imdb)
The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution (imdb)
"Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: Money, Fame, Success, Groupies, a Singer who died of drugs and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during an open-air. (imdb)
Based on the novel by Zoe Heller, this psychological thriller portrays two women caught up in a drama of need and betrayal. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband... (imdb)
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets where he becomes drawn into a web of passion, romance and violence.. (imdb)
Bleak House (2005) - TV Mini-Series
A web of deceit and mystery surrounds the chancery trial of Jarndyce and Jarndyce that draws a large group of disparate individuals together. But are they more closely related than they think? And what's the connection between the Jarndyce case and the orphan Esther Summerson?
When a group of people from different walks of life converge on a Romanian castle sealed for 500 years, they bring with them a werewolf which slowly begins to cut their numbers down. The movie is The Howling a la Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians. (imdb)
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. (imdb)
White Teeth (2002) - TV Series
In 1970's England, cultures start to mix and cross with different experiences. Archie is contemplating suicide until he meets Clara, who is fleeing an oppressive Jehovah's Witness mother. Meanwhile Samad has arrived in England to meet with his old war-friend Archie and to complete his arranged marriage. The two couples have different experiences of multi-cultural Britain and this differs from their children as the story follows the two generations across the years. (imdb)
A happily married, middle-aged couple are visited by a number of unhappy and lonely friends who use them as confidants. When an unmarried friend falls for their young son, they watch as events unfold. (tiff.net)
The Curse of Steptoe (2008) - TV Movie
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal. (imdb)
A year after the collapse of a low-budget British rom-com, documentary maker Andy Wiseman sets out to find out what went wrong. He speaks to the producer, Nicholas Johnson, an alcoholic whose office is a lap-dancing club, the writer, Flynn Beatty, living in a suburban semi, and the deluded 'visionary' director, Harlan Noble, dwelling in deserved obscurity. But as the cast and crew tell their tale, will Andy ever get to the bottom of the farrago that was 'Just for the Record'? (imdb)
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish. (imdb)
Collision (2009) - TV Mini-Series
At 5:57 on a Friday afternoon, a tragic accident took place on a major highway, leaving two dead, two others critically wounded, and the surviving victims profoundly changed, their lives forever entwined. (Amazon.com)
Hacks (2012) - TV Movie
Kate Loy is now the ruthless editor of scurrilous red top Sunday Comet,owned by Australian media magnate Stanhope Feast. The paper will stop at nothing including hacking into newsworthy people's phones though Kate gets off by helping the police wire-tap criminals. Feast and his wife and son arrive in England to offer the prime minister media support in exchange for an exclusive TV deal but the claims of hacking will not go away and they are summoned to a commons commission. (imdb)
BORROWED TIME tells the story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles.
The film is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth, and was a big hit with audiences during its Edinburgh Film Festival debut. (bbc.co.uk)
Fields of Gold (2002) - TV Movie
Anna Friel plays press photographer Lucia and Phil Davis the world weary journalist Lodge, who together find themselves investigating the sinister connections between government, big business and bio technology.
An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. (imdb)
A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye. (imdb)
Whitechapel (2009) - TV Series
A fast-tracked inspector, a hardened detective sergeant, and an expert in historical homicides investigate modern crimes with connections to the past in the Whitechapel district of London (imdb)
An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.
Ready When You Are Mr. McGill (2003) - TV Movie
An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos. (imdb)
An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home. (imdb)
Sunshine's Dark Moment (1929) - Short Film
Barney Hellum and Slim Summerville give policeman Kit Guard a rough time in this funny Barney Google short, which is based on the comic strip character.
Horsefeathers (1928) - Short Film
Barney Google is returning to Kokomo with his menage: race horse Spark Plug, trainer-jockey Sunshine, and ostrich Rudy. The people turn out to greet him -- the race horse, that is, and Sunshine. Feelings about Google are less kind, and soon the four of them are on a train headed elsewhere, causing havoc to passengers and crew.