Robin Wright Archives

The Princess Bride (1987)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 6, 2002Fairytale Romance/Swashbuckler

Swashbuckling fairytale that treads a fine line between deconstruction and parody, while reveling in a script where the dialogue positively dances. Perfectly cast - a film that few do not come out enjoying its ebullient fantasy

Director: Rob Reiner

Actors: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 20026 September 2020 by Roog

Toys (1992)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 18, 2002Toy-Maker Wars/Gonzo Fantasy

Genuinely eccentric Barry Levinson film that plays out as a post-Reaganite version of Willy Wonka and features some of the most amazing sets ever designed for a film.

Director: Barry Levinson

Actors: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, …

Category: Fantasy

18 February 20026 May 2025 by Roog

Unbreakable (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 26, 2000Ordinary Superhero

M. Night Shyamalan's immediate follow-up to the huge hit of The Sixth Sense. This similarly builds a big conceptual mystery before arriving at the rather hokey notion that Bruce Willis is really a superhero

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark, Robin Wright, …

Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

26 November 200022 October 2020 by Roog

The Pledge (2001)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 19, 2001Psycho-Thriller

Slow and subtle Sean Penn directed thriller where Jack Nicholson plays a retired detective haunted by a child murder case

Director: Sean Penn

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Aaron Eckhart, Sam Shepard, …

Category: Horror

19 January 200126 March 2024 by Roog

The Singing Detective (2003)

Rating: ★

Nov 8, 2005Detective Story Daydreams

Disastrous Hollywood version of Dennis Potter's classic tv mini-series where a hospitalised Robert Downey jr fantasises a dream world of 1940s film noir

Director: Keith Gordon

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Katie Holmes, …

Category: Fantasy

8 November 200522 October 2020 by Roog

Beowulf (2007)

Rating: ★★★½

Dec 2, 2007Epic Legend/Animation

After the success of the motion captured animated The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis turned his attentions to the classic legend. Armed with a Neil Gaiman script and a host of name actors in the mocap suits, the result is a soaring fantasy

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Actors: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright, …

Category: Fantasy

2 December 20078 September 2025 by Roog

A Christmas Carol (2009)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 14, 2009Miser's Redemption/Animation

Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. The tale has gone through so many adaptations, it fee;s an uphill battle to find anything new in the story no matter the technical quality of the film

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Actors: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, …

Category: Fantasy

14 November 200928 December 2025 by Roog

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 20, 2011Serial Killer Thriller

David Fincher's English-language remake of the Swedish film is capably made but a lesser shadow of something that worked perfectly the first time. In particular, Rooney Mara is no substitute for Noomi Rapace

Director: David Fincher

Actors: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, …

Category: Horror

20 December 201128 October 2025 by Roog

The Congress (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 9, 2013Virtual Actress/Future Shared Drug Hallucination

Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman adapts a work by Stanislaw Lem into a conceptually challenging part-animated film concerning a virtual actress and a future where the populace lives inside a drug-induced mass hallucination

Director: Ari Folman

Actors: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston, Kodi Smit-McPhee, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 October 201314 January 2026 by Roog

Wonder Woman (2017)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 8, 2017Comic-Book Superheroine

After three films of mixed success, DC Comics finally get their Cinematic Universe right. Director Patty Jenkins blows all of the others away with a series of exhilarating action sequences that have an entire audience cheering

Director: Patty Jenkins

Actors: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Huston, Connie Nielsen, …

Category: Fantasy

8 July 201727 February 2026 by Roog

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Rating: ★★★★½

Jan 6, 2018Cyberpunk Future/Androids

Blade Runner is a landmark classic but this is well worthwhile sequel from Denis Villeneuve that recreates the fascinating Cyberpunk world in more detail and expands out on the themes laid down in the original. Made with impeccably beautiful detail

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Actors: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks, Jared Leto, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 January 201815 July 2025 by Roog

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Rating: ★★

Jan 2, 2021Comic-Book Superheroine

The much-anticipated sequel to the Gal Gadot starring Wonder Woman is a highly divided success, partly due to an inane plot centred around a magic wishing stone

Director: Patty Jenkins

Actors: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, …

Category: Fantasy

2 January 202127 February 2026 by Roog

Damsel (2024)

Rating: ★½

Mar 22, 2024Dragon Fantasy

A dragon fantasy where Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown plays the damsel who sets out to save herself. A fantasy film made for people who don’t like fantasy films

Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Actors: Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright, …

Category: Fantasy

22 March 202414 November 2025 by Roog

Here (2024)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 7, 2024One Room Across Multiple Eras of Time

A unique experimental film from Robert Zemeckis where the camera sits in a single spot in a room and tells is story, covers across history from the dinosaurs to the present day. Based on an acclaimed graphic novel

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, …

Category: Fantasy

7 December 202413 November 2025 by Roog