Jessica Brown-Findlay Archives

Labyrinth (2012)

Rating: ★★

Jan 20, 2014Cross-Historical Search for the Holy Grail

Christopher Smith is an underrated genre director but his first venture into tv is disappointing cross-historical quest for the Holy Grail story that reads like warmed over Da Vinci Code

Director: Christopher Smith

Actors: Vanessa Kirby, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Katie McGrath, John Hurt, …

Category: Fantasy

20 January 201419 June 2026 by Roog

Winter’s Tale (2014)

Rating: ★★

Feb 15, 2014Urban Fantasy/Romance/Fate and Miracles

Akiva Goldsman, a screenwriter who has laid a trail of devastation through the genre, attempts to film a classic fantasy novel that has aptly described as unfilmable, resulting in a curtailed story that works in individual scenes but is mostly a spawling patchwork of fantasy elements and a romance that never seems to spark

Director: Akiva Goldsman

Actors: Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown-Findlay, William Hurt, …

Category: Fantasy

15 February 201410 June 2025 by Roog

Victor Frankenstein (2015)

Rating: ★

Dec 5, 2015Frankenstein Adaptation

A ludicrously overwrought version of the Frankenstein story. How more nutzoid can you get than a version where Igor the hunchback (a completely miscast Daniel Radcliffe) is the main character?

Director: Paul McGuigan

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Andrew Scott, …

Category: Horror

5 December 201519 September 2026 by Roog

Brave New World (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 10, 2020Dystopian Future

TV mini-series adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s classic dystopian novel. Developed by Grant Morrison, this freely adapts the novel but does a strong and intelligent job of reimagining it in contemporary terms

Director: Andrij Parekh, Aoife McArdle, Craig Zisk, Ellen Kuras, Owen Harris

Actors: Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Demi Moore, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 October 202010 December 2025 by Roog

The Banishing (2020)

Rating: ★★

Jun 27, 2021Haunted House

Christopher Smith seemed one of the most promising genre directors of the 2000s with films like Triangle and Black Death. Here he returns with a venture into the English ghost story

Director: Christopher Smith

Actors: Jessica Brown-Findlay, John Lynch, Sean Harris, John Heffernan, …

Category: Horror

27 June 202112 July 2024 by Roog