Wolfgang Petersen Archives

The Neverending Story (1984)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 9, 2002Fantasy Adventure Inside an Interactive Book

A popular fantasy film of the 80s that sits just between the imaginative, particularly when it comes to some its creature effects and design work, and the mawkish. It also comes with an intriguing level of meta-fiction that delivers some odd messages

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Actors: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Sydney Bromley, Moses Gunn, …

Category: Fantasy

9 January 200230 June 2021 by Roog

Enemy Mine (1985)

Rating: ★★

Sep 23, 2000Human-Alien Enemies Stranded on a Hostile Planet

SF film with Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr as human and alien who are enemies but are forced to cooperate to survive after crashlanding on a hostile alien planet

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr, Bumper Robinson, Brion James

Category: Science Fiction

23 September 200017 October 2025 by Roog

Outbreak (1995)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 11, 2000Plague Outbreak

Spectacular big-budget, all-star film about a plague outbreak on US soil - one that was loosely inspired by the Ebola outbreak

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 September 200021 May 2020 by Roog

Bicentennial Man (1999)

Rating: ★

Dec 21, 1999Robot Gains Self-Awareness/Isaac Asimov Adaptation

Isaac Asimov may not have been the best science-fiction writer ever but his stories buzzed with challenging ideas. In the hands of Chris Columbus, one of Asimov's robot stories is reduced to mawkish sentimentalism

Director: Chris Columbus

Actors: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 December 199927 November 2025 by Roog