Jon Favreau Archives

Deep Impact (1998)

Rating: ★★

May 31, 1999Asteroid Collision/Disaster Movie

Big serious attempt at creating an asteroid collides with Earth film, this came out the same year as Armageddon. Despite arraying much acting talent and effects artistry, this disappears into a melodramatic blandness

Director: Mimi Leder

Actors: Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 May 199910 October 2025 by Roog

Daredevil (2003)

Rating: ★★

Apr 12, 2003Blind Comic-Book Superhero

One of the early efforts among the surge of Marvel Comics adaptations on the big screen in the early 2000s. A disappointing adaptation that feels more like a series of posed comic-book panels than it ever does a movie

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, …

Category: Fantasy

12 April 200325 April 2025 by Roog

Open Season (2006)

Rating: ★★

Feb 11, 2007Animation/Talking Animals

Passable animated film from Sony Pictures Animation, although the story arcs too closely resemble every other animated film for it to have much in the way of notability

Director: Anthony Stacchi, Jill Culton, Roger Allers

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Debra Messing, Gary Sinise, …

Category: Fantasy

11 February 200727 January 2025 by Roog

Iron Man (2008)

Rating: ★★★½

May 6, 2008Comic-Book Superhero

This where the MCU began after a spate of high-profile Marvel Comics adaptations in the early 2000s. Jon Favreau conducts a highly enjoyable adaptation of the comic-book with Robert Downey Jr shining as Tony Stark

Director: Jon Favreau

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Terrence Howard, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 May 200830 July 2026 by Roog

G-Force (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 20, 2009Talking Guinea Pig Secret Agents

Imagine a Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible spy caper played out with talking guinea pigs. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, no less, this offers appealingly energetic silliness

Director: Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr.

Actors: Zach Galifianakis, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Kelli Garner, …

Category: Fantasy

20 October 200911 July 2026 by Roog

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Rating: ★★½

May 21, 2010Comic-Book Superhero

Iron Man was very enjoyable. True to typical superhero sequel form, this complicates the original by introducing so many new villains and characters that it becomes an overcrowded narrative juggling act

Director: Jon Favreau

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 May 201030 July 2026 by Roog

Zookeeper (2011)

Rating: ★

Jul 24, 2011Talking Zoo Animals Offer Romantic Advice Comedy

Animals in a zoo offer schmuck zoo keeper Kevin James romantic advice based on their mating behaviours. The premise runs out of steam soon in, the rest is an irritating smartass CGI talking animals comedy

Director: Frank Coraci

Actors: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Donnie Wahlberg, …

Category: Fantasy

24 July 201113 August 2021 by Roog

Iron Man Three (2013)

Rating: ★★

May 3, 2013Comic-Book Superhero

A major disappointment. Stripping the superhero of the show of his suit makes for no more than a regular action hero, while the film's reduction of Iron Man's No 1 villain to a cardboard threat ranks down alongside a Batsuit with nipples

Director: Shane Black

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Ben Kingsley, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 May 201323 April 2026 by Roog

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 7, 2017Comic-Book Superhero

Sony's reboot of the Spider-Man franchise bursts with a freshness and creative energy. This is also a Spider-Man that has integrated with the MCU with the script kowtowing to Marvel at every point

Director: Jon Watts

Actors: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 October 201723 May 2026 by Roog

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Rating: ★★

Dec 8, 2018Star Wars Spinoff Film

The second of the Stars Wars spinoff films tells a Han Solo origin story. After a change of directors, it emerges in the hands of Ron Howard who has spent four decades being the world's most ploddingly sedate director

Director: Ron Howard

Actors: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Joonas Suotamo, Emilia Clarke, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 December 201831 July 2026 by Roog

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Rating: ★★

Aug 10, 2019Marvel Comics Superhero Team-Up

Marvel conclude the cliffhanger they left Avengers: Infinity War on and offer up a bigger-than-big line-up, overspilling with just about every MCU character to ever appear on screen up to that point

Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 August 201921 November 2025 by Roog

Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 28, 2019Comic-Book Superhero

Spider-Man: Homecoming was Sony's Spider-Man reboot where the elements came together with winning regard and Tom Holland's politely eager nervousness made for a fantastic Spider-Man. This was the first sequel.

Director: Jon Watts

Actors: Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 September 201923 May 2026 by Roog

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 19, 2022Comic-Book Superhero

Sony’s Spider-Man franchise ingeniously competes with Marvel’s shared universe by bringing all their previous incarnations of Spider-Man together

Director: Jon Watts

Actors: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 March 20229 October 2024 by Roog

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 12, 2024Comic-Book Superheroes/Crossover

In his third cinematic outing, Deadpool gets into the multiverse game, creating a hilarious team-up with Wolverine and a crossover with an assortment of other cancelled Marvel franchises

Director: Shawn Levy

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Matthew McFadyen, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 October 202421 July 2026 by Roog