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

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

Director: Max Winkler

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

Category: Horror

25 October 202512 September 2026 by Roog