Karen Holness Archives

Riverworld (2003)

Rating: ★

Nov 22, 2008All of Humanity Resurrected on an Alien Planet

The first adaptation of Philip Jose Farmer's series of novels where every person who ever lived is resurrected on an alien planet is given an abysmal treatment as a tv movie that ditches and rewrites major aspects of the books

Director: Kari Skogland

Actors: Brad Johnson, Cameron Daddo, Jonathan Cake, Emily Lloyd, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 November 200829 December 2025 by Roog

Twitches (2005)

Rating: ★

Dec 2, 2007Twin Sister Witches

Inane Disney Channel film with twin sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry as sisters who didn't know it who discover they are witches. A film that has zero interest in its fantasy elements and is entirely taken up by airhead teenage airhead natter

Director: Stuart Gillard

Actors: Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Pat Kelly, Kristen Wilson, …

Category: Fantasy

2 December 200722 November 2023 by Roog

Twitches Too (2007)

Rating: ★

Oct 19, 2000Twin Sister Witches

Having to sit through the Mowray twins airhead natter again in a sequel to their early Disney Channel film feels the equivalent of nails being scratched on a blackboard

Director: Stuart Gillard

Actors: Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Kristen Wilson, Pat Kelly, …

Category: Fantasy

19 October 20009 January 2024 by Roog

Swarm (2007)

Rating: ★

Mar 8, 2008Ants on a Plane

A blatant copy of Snakes on a Plane featuring mutated ants aboard a plane. Without the other film's tongue-in-cheek approach, this collapses into absurdity

Director: George Mendeluk

Actors: Jessalyn Gilsig, Antonio Sabato Jr, Serge Houde, Ryan McDonell, …

Category: Horror

8 March 20086 December 2021 by Roog

Dr Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)

Rating: ★½

Aug 13, 2009Teenager That Can Speak to Animals

The second of the video-released Dr Dolittle films featuring his teenage daughter Kyla Pratt. This is marginally better and less excruciating in its humour than its predecessor Dr. Dolittle 3 was

Director: Craig Shapiro

Actors: Kyla Pratt, Peter Coyote, Malcolm Stewart, Niall Matter, …

Category: Fantasy

13 August 200914 October 2025 by Roog

Donovan’s Echo (2011)

Rating: ★★

Oct 21, 2011Precognition

Film about clairvoyance and predestination that owes much to Don't Look Now. Unfortunately, this reduces everything to the prosaic level of a tv movie thriller

Director: Jim Cliffe

Actors: Danny Glover, Bruce Greenwood, Natasha Calis, Sonja Bennett, …

Category: Fantasy

21 October 201120 January 2026 by Roog