Warwick Davis Archives

The Ewok Adventure (1984)

Rating: ★★

Dec 21, 2002Children's Planetary Adventure/Star Wars Spinoff

Crass attempt by George Lucas to further milk the Star Wars phenomenon with a tv movie (released to theatres outside the US) given over the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi

Director: John Korty

Actors: Aubree Miller, Warwick Davis, Eric Walker, Debbie Carrington, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 December 200227 September 2023 by Roog

Ewoks and the Marauders of Endor (1986)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 20, 2002Children's Planetary Adventure/Star Wars Spinoff

Follow-up to The Ewok Adventure, a tv movie released to theatres internationally. This is a better film than its predecessor that even captures something of the Star Wars spirit on occasions

Director: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat

Actors: Aubree Miller, Warwick Davis, Wilford Brimley, Sian Phillips, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 June 200231 January 2026 by Roog

Outside of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, not much else that George Lucas has made has been a success. This Ron Howard-directed epic fantasy proved to be a big flop where Howard's lightweight touch fails to make a one-dimensional plot fly

Director: Ron Howard

Actors: Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, …

Category: Fantasy

9 November 200323 January 2025 by Roog

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 19, 2005Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld

This was the third of the four BBC tv adaptations of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books. The tv versions treats the books with quite reasonable faithfulness but suffer from extremely cheap looking effects

Director: Alex Kirby

Actors: Sophie Wilcox, Jonathan R. Scott, David Thwaites, Samuel West, …

Category: Fantasy

19 June 200514 January 2026 by Roog

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (1989)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 3, 2005Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld

The second of the BBC's tv adaptations of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, the slightest of the works where the story is reduced to two half-hour episode

Director: Alex Kirby

Actors: Richard Dempsey, Sophie Wilcox, Jonathan R. Scott, Sophie Cook, …

Category: Fantasy

3 June 20056 October 2025 by Roog

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (1990)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 2, 2005Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld

This was the fourth and final, as well as the best of the BBC's tv adaptations of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, which works well enough despite the impoverished production values

Director: Alex Kirby

Actors: David Thwaites, Tom Baker, Camilla Power, Barbara Kellerman, …

Category: Fantasy

2 July 200514 January 2026 by Roog

Leprechaun (1993)

Rating: ★★

Sep 9, 1999Malevolent Leprechaun

The first in the popular series of films starring Warwick Davis as a malevolent leprechaun. Fairly cheesy and silly, mostly known today for featuring a pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston

Director: Mark Jones

Actors: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton, …

Category: Horror

9 September 199923 June 2026 by Roog

Leprechaun 2 (1994)

Rating: ★

Nov 3, 2008Malevolent Leprechaun

The second in the Leprechaun series with Warwick Davis delivering a series of extremely silly novelty deaths accompanied by excruciating one-liners

Director: Rodman Flender

Actors: Warwick Davis, Shevonne Durkin, Sandy Baron, Adam Biesk

Category: Horror

3 November 200813 July 2022 by Roog

Leprechaun 3 (1995)

Rating: ★

Apr 19, 1999Malevolent Leprechaun

Third in the series takes Warwick Davis's Leprechaun to Las Vegas for a series of novelty deaths that have silliness that frequently defies belief

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith

Actors: Warwick Davis, John Gatins, Lee Armstrong, Caroline Williams, …

Category: Horror

19 April 199927 December 2024 by Roog

Prince Valiant (1997)

Rating: ★

Apr 27, 2003Sword and Sorcery/Comic-Strip Adaptation

The classic comic-strip receives a disastrous film adaption where director Anthony Hickox plays everything for campy silliness

Director: Anthony Hickox

Actors: Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Joanna Lumley, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Fantasy

27 April 200316 June 2022 by Roog

The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)

Rating: ½

Jan 8, 2011Living Puppet Boy

Sequel to the 1996 CGI The Adventures of Pinocchio, this is a shabby and drearily made piece of filler that unimaginatively shuffles around the basic elements of the first film without making an effort at all

Director: Michael Anderson

Actors: Martin Landau, Udo Kier, Sarah Alexander, Simon Schatzberger, …

Category: Fantasy

8 January 20119 June 2020 by Roog

Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 19, 2000Rappers Meet the Leprechaun

Fifth film in the series starring Warwick Davis as a malevolent leprechaun dispatching bizarre novelty deaths. In a bizarre novelty twist, this sets the leprechaun loose in the world of rap

Director: Rob Spera

Actors: Warwick Davis, Ice-T, Lobo Sebastian, Dan Martin

Category: Horror

19 April 200023 June 2026 by Roog

The 10th Kingdom (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 26, 2014Fairytale Parody Mini-Series

Hallmark mini-series set in a world 200 years after the classic fairytales have occurred, this wittily deflates or contrasts classic story elements with the present-day

Director: David Carson, Herbert Wise

Actors: Kimberly Williams, John Larroquette, Dianne Wiest, Ed O'Neill, …

Category: Fantasy

26 December 201412 July 2026 by Roog

Snow White (2001)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 29, 2008Fairy-Tale

Caroline Thompson, a regular Tim Burton scriptwriter, directs a uniquely revisionist version of the fairytale in which she digs in to explain the origins of many of the familiar aspects of the story

Director: Caroline Thompson

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Kristin Kreuk, Clancy Brown, Michael J. Anderson, …

Category: Fantasy

29 June 20085 October 2024 by Roog

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Rating: ★

May 2, 2005Gonzo SF

The big-budget film version of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide phenomenon is a disaster that fumbles Douglas Adams’s absurdist wit and blows everything up with big-budget effects and a pitch to American audiences

Director: Garth Jennings

Actors: Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Mos Def, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 May 200529 December 2023 by Roog

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 26, 2005Young Wizard

Fourth of the Harry Potter films and one that feels much more seamless and sure of itself as a story. The problem is the absurd contrivation of J.K. Rowling's weak story that wheels out every sports movie cliche in the book

Director: Mike Newell

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, …

Category: Fantasy

26 November 200510 December 2024 by Roog

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Rating: ★★

Jun 29, 2008Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld

The second of the Narnia films. Director Andrew Adamson seems so intent on copying Peter Jackson that the film becomes all epic fantasy flourishes and battle scenes to the exclusion of all else - even much of C.S. Lewis's book

Director: Andrew Adamson

Actors: Georgie Henley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, …

Category: Fantasy

29 June 200813 January 2026 by Roog

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 15, 2011Young Wizard

I've never been a huge fan of the Harry Potter series but the final chapter rounds out the boy wizard saga in rousing style, mounting an epic-sized battle and finding characters depths that hold some of the best writing of the series

Director: David Yates

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, …

Category: Fantasy

15 July 20111 July 2021 by Roog

The Unbroken (2012)

Rating: ★★

Aug 28, 2014Ghost Story

Film about a woman who moves into a new apartment and is haunted by a little ghost boy. Follows the plotting for the ghost story genre to a completely tried and true formula and with wholly unremarkable results

Director: Jason M. Murphy

Actors: Aurelia Rose, Daniel Baldwin, Warwick Davis

Category: Horror

28 August 201414 May 2025 by Roog

Maleficent, Mistress of Evil (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 11, 2020Sleeping Beauty Continuation

Nobody much liked Maleficent but did make a reasonable amount of money, hence a sequel. The surprise is that in the hands of Norwegian director Joachim Rønning, it is far better than one expected

Director: Joachim Rønning

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Harris Dickinson, …

Category: Fantasy

11 January 20204 August 2026 by Roog