Patrick Wilson came from Broadway with two Tony nominations before film, and Angels in America gave him an early television lead.
Little Children brought his best dramatic work, and Hard Candy gives him a genuinely uncomfortable role.
The Conjuring and Insidious franchises made him a horror fixture, and Watchmen gave him Nite Owl, playing a superhero as an ageing man with a paunch, which the film treats seriously. He has directed one Insidious entry.
Amber HeardAquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The last film of a continuity that had already been cancelled, released into an audience that knew it, with a villain whose plan is to…
Donald SutherlandMoonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is the most…
Lili TaylorPatrick Wilson plays Ed Warren. The Conjuring is one of the most commercially successful contemporary supernatural horror productions and the foundational document of the Conjuring Universe franchise that has dominated mid-2010s through early-2020s horror cinema.
Barbara HersheyJames Wan's haunted house story where a comatose boy's spirit is trapped in a dimensional space called the Further. Patrick Wilson plays Josh Lambert.
Charlton HestonTwo substantial adaptations of the Battle of Midway. 1976 ensemble approach with Charlton Heston and Toshiro Mifune.
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