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‘Toy Story 5’ and the ‘Toy Story’ Movie Rankings. Plus: ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ and the Top Five Robin Hoods.

June 19, 2026/ 91 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins open with movie news, review Michael Sarnoski's 'The Death of Robin Hood' and run through the cinematic Robin Hoods, then review Pixar's 'Toy Story 5' and rank all five 'Toy Story' movies.

22 films across 5 segments.

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Movie newsthe week's headlines

Artificial 2026

Luca Guadagnino's Social Network-style Sam Altman biopic, with Andrew Garfield as Altman. Amazon MGM is offloading it, seemingly over an OpenAI partnership.

After the Hunt 2025

Guadagnino's recent one, cited as the fiasco that soured Amazon on working with him again.

The Social Reckoning 2026

Sony's Social Network follow-up, raised as already occupying the same anti-tech lane as Artificial.

The Parlay

Daniel Kaluuya reteams with Judas and the Black Messiah director Shaka King on a crime thriller for Amazon MGM; Teyana Taylor circling.

Together 2025

Michael Shanks's Alison Brie/Dave Franco horror, name-checked because Shanks is directing Kaluuya's 'Hotel' film next.

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 2024

The six-hour horror doc Sean is slowly chipping away at.

‘The Death of Robin Hood’the new release

The Death of Robin Hood 2025

Michael Sarnoski directs Hugh Jackman as a dying, regretful Robin Hood, with Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe. Both hosts were let down: a gnarly, violent first 30 minutes gives way to a long slow downshift, and the film ends up meaning to distrust the myth without ever engaging it. Jackman doing the anguished thing he already did better in Logan and Prisoners.

The cinematic Robin Hoodsthe adaptations they ran through

Robin Hood (Fairbanks) 1922

Allan Dwan's silent, with Douglas Fairbanks. Sean watched it on Tubi; he credits it with establishing the cinematic Robin Hood tropes.

The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938

Michael Curtiz and Errol Flynn, the Technicolor swashbuckler and Claude Rains's Prince John. Curtiz's last before Casablanca; the version everything downstream riffs on.

Robin Hood (Disney) 1973

The animated fox that codified Robin Hood for a couple of moviegoing generations.

Robin and Marian 1976

Richard Lester's late-life version with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn.

Robin Hood (Bergin) 1991

Patrick Bergin's version, released the same year as Prince of Thieves.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1991

Kevin Costner, home of what Sean calls the worst accent in the history of movies, but an entertaining-enough blockbuster.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights 1993

Mel Brooks's parody, clearly riffing on Prince of Thieves; the bookend to the 1938-to-1993 stretch that fixed the idea of Robin Hood.

Robin Hood (Ridley Scott) 2010

Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's grim, black-leather take, which Sean pitches as Robin Hood: Gladiator.

Robin Hood (Egerton) 2018

Taron Egerton's, which Sean found very unsuccessful.

‘Toy Story 5’the new release

Toy Story 5 2026

Andrew Stanton co-writes and directs. Really Jessie's movie: Bonnie, now eight, gets a frog-tablet called LilyPad (Greta Lee) and the toys are sidelined by screens. Sean was moved to tears by its take on kids and friendship; Amanda admired it but flagged the rickety plotting and the craven 'bad tech equals bad people' shortcut, capped by a climax that hinges on an iOS update.

The ‘Toy Story’ movie rankingsSean's ranking, best first