Who Is 'The Dog Stars' For?
The adaptation follows Hig and Bangley as they endure a deadly flu pandemic that wiped out more than half the global population.
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‘The Dog Stars’ review: A slow burn about loss, survival and hope
Content warning: Contains plot details from “The Dog Stars” Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars” is a slow-burning post-apocalyptic thriller set in a world devastated by a deadly flu that has wiped out more than half of the global population. It explores loss, survival and finding something to hold on to in an almost hopeless world. […] The post ‘The Dog Stars’ review: A slow burn about loss, survival and hope appeared first on Interaksyon.
New Release Review - "The Dog Stars"
If 28 Years Later played like two episodes of The Walking Dead stitched together, Ridley Scott's new addition to the overcrowded post-apocalyptic sub-genre goes one step further. The Dog Stars plays like three episodes of The Walking Dead stitched together. There are no zombies here but Scott's film, adapted from a novel by Peter Heller, gives us zombie surrogates in the form of "ferals," survivors who behave like the maniacal lunatics who roam …
The Dog Stars: Not Exactly Shining Bright
Ridley Scott returns to future-set speculative fiction to disappointing results. Set in a largely unexplained and uninteresting post-apocalyptic world and featuring an underwhelming cast, it nonetheless has notable high points and hints at what could have been a much more exciting film.
Hello everyone, today I recommend to your attention the post-apocalyptic sci-fi film The Dog Stars, directed by Ridley Scott, the director of Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and The Winged Bounty Hunter, which is currently available in Romanian arthouse and plaza cinemas. The Dog Stars takes place in 2035, in America, where a devastating superflu epidemic has decimated the population. The survivors, isolated from each other, go into the wilderness…
Despite his current age of 88, Ridley Scott (director of films such as Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator) does not shy away from regularly taking on major film productions. His latest feature film "The Dog Stars" tells the story of a young man's struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world.
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