Robin Weigert Archives

Angels in America (2003)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jan 6, 2005Surreal AIDS Drama/Angelic Visitations

Stunning tv mini-series adaptation of Tony Kushner's award-winning play about the impact of the AIDS crisis on gay culture in the 1980s, which becomes a surreal fantasy filled with appearances of angels and ghosts

Director: Mike Nichols

Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Justin Kirk, …

Category: Fantasy

6 January 200518 November 2025 by Roog

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 4, 2009Meta-Fiction and Surrealism

Mind-bending Charlie Kaufman meta-fiction in which Philip Seymour Hoffman creates a vast theatre project that drags on for years and starts to merge into his own life

Director: Charlie Kaufman

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, …

Category: Fantasy

4 April 200911 September 2020 by Roog

Smile (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 26, 2022Viral Curse

Horror film about a viral curse that bends the victim's sense of reality and illusion, this settles in with some undeniably creepy effect

Director: Parker Finn

Actors: Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Jessie T. Usher, Robin Weigert, …

Category: Horror

26 November 202230 July 2026 by Roog

Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 25, 2025True-Life Body Snatcher and Necrophile

An eight-episode tv mini-series based on true-life necrophile/grave robber Ed Gein. This expands the story out and considerably embellishes the facts but is one of the most outrageously out there pieces of tv watching you will ever come across

Director: Max Winkler

Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Suzanna Son, Laurie Metcalf, Lesley Manville, …

Category: Horror

25 October 202524 April 2026 by Roog