Felicity Jones Archives

The Tempest (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 10, 2011Shakespeare Adaptation

Version of the Shakespeare play that gives us a female Prospero (Helen Mirren) but is otherwise surprisingly faithful. Director Julie Taymor opens the play up with considerable visual extravagance

Director: Julie Taymor

Actors: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, …

Category: Fantasy

10 July 20119 April 2025 by Roog

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Rating: ★★★★

May 3, 2014Comic-Book Superhero

One of the best among the modern Marvel Comics screen adaptations. All involved are at the absolute peak of their game and the balance of superheroic action, humour and tragedy makes you cheer at how well they get it right

Director: Marc Webb

Actors: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 May 201430 October 2025 by Roog

Inferno (2016)

Rating: ★

Dec 3, 2016Dan Brown Adaptation/Trail of Clues to a Deadly Virus

The third film based on Dan Brown's Robert Langdon books. This is essentially the same plot as The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks following clues to a deadly virus hidden in classic artworks around Europe

Director: Ron Howard

Actors: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 December 201617 April 2026 by Roog

Rogue One (2016)

Rating: ★★

Jan 7, 2017Star Wars Prequel

Disney are now doing what Lucasfilm did with their novels in the 80s and spinning adventures off from even minor background characters. This is a grittier Dirty Dozen adventure but still recycles the same basic elements

Director: Gareth Edwards

Actors: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 January 201730 July 2026 by Roog

A Monster Calls (2016)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 28, 2017Boy Befriends Giant Monster

The story of the relationship between a giant monster and a boy whose mother is dying of cancer, this is perhaps the darkest children's film ever made. Adapted from an award-winning illustrated book

Director: J.A. Bayona

Actors: Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, …

Category: Fantasy

28 January 20179 July 2026 by Roog

The Midnight Sky (2020)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 8, 2021Last Man on Earth Tries to Communicate with a Space Mission

George Clooney starred in Gravity and now directs/stars in his own scientifically grounded space film about the last man trying to communicate with a surviving space mission following a catastrophe event on Earth

Director: George Clooney

Actors: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 January 202124 August 2024 by Roog