The Dog Stars (2026)
Directed by Ridley Scott
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.
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All fine questions for first year philosophy students or someone watching “The Walking Dead” for the first time (back in 2010).
…the ruined cities and dangerous landscapes recalling everything from The Walking Dead to Civil War to 28 Years Later…
If the Grand Junction sequence dives into the more outré aspects of 'The Walking Dead'…
In a world of seven Walking Dead shows, the beats are now far too familiar…
A romantic subplot with Cima tries to imbue some emotion into the movie, yet ends up just resembling the much-derided farm arc of The Walking Dead's second season.
In fact, it’s a strange hybrid of elements from I Am Legend, the new 28 Years Later movies, and tidbits from various seasons of The Walking Dead.
…after watching Brolin go full commando on feral invaders straight out of a Max Max casting call, it’s hard to disagree.
Meanwhile, the Reapers — ever-more feral gangs (and huge Mad Max fans from their attire and tattoos) — are rumoured to be roaming the countryside…
…from any number of zombie flicks to George Miller’s gonzo Mad Max action operas…
There is also a terrific, Mad Max-adjacent chase when Hig’s plane takes off while men on horseback try to overtake him.
…his Omega Man western that’s a not-so-mad Mad Max…
There’s the loyal dog of I Am Legend, the manic berserkers of Mad Max (though without their wit or characterisation) and even the bonkers future-nostalgia of Fallout at one point.
…while that era’s biggest hits, like 2012, I Am Legend and The Day After Tomorrow offered sweeping, action-packed visions of Earth in the end times…
The Dog Stars may disappoint viewers wanting an explosive action-horror comparable to I Am Legend, The Last Of Us or 28 Years Later.
…tiene elementos de «Soy Leyenda» la saga de «Exterminio», entre otros…
Will someone write in if “I Am Legend” (2007) inspired Heller’s book?
There’s the loyal dog of I Am Legend, the manic berserkers of Mad Max (though without their wit or characterisation) and even the bonkers future-nostalgia of Fallout at one point.
THE DOG STARS is a movie that immediately reminded me of I Am Legend when I watched the trailer.
…the ruined cities and dangerous landscapes recalling everything from The Walking Dead to Civil War to 28 Years Later…
The Dog Stars may disappoint viewers wanting an explosive action-horror comparable to I Am Legend, The Last Of Us or 28 Years Later.
Danny Boyle did it better in 28 Years Later, as did Bong Joon-ho in Snowpiercer.
…territory that belongs to a more surreal strain of post-apocalyptic fiction like Fallout or 28 Years Later…
Post-apocalypse horror and sci-fi survival thrillers continue to be all the rage currently, whether it’s The Last of Us, Fallout and Silo on TV or 28 Years Later, its sequel The Bone Temple and The End of Oak Street on the big screen.
…the most recent crop of post-apocalyptic dramas, like The Last of Us and the 28 Years Later franchise, use the collapse of society as a jumping-off point to tell intimate, small-scale stories about human emotion…
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…while The Last of Us got there first…
Contrast this with The Last of Us and Station Eleven, post-apocalyptic stories that use the “rebuilding society” framework to make shrewd observations about morality and culture.
“The Dog Stars” feels dubiously in the vein of “The Last of Us.” But here, there are no brain-infected fungus monsters — only lugubrious, depressed people fighting over the scraps of a lonely planet.
Post-apocalypse horror and sci-fi survival thrillers continue to be all the rage currently, whether it’s The Last of Us, Fallout and Silo on TV or 28 Years Later, its sequel The Bone Temple and The End of Oak Street on the big screen.
Denver – actually Italy standing in for Colorado – looks like it could just be from The Last of Us…
…the most recent crop of post-apocalyptic dramas, like The Last of Us and the 28 Years Later franchise, use the collapse of society as a jumping-off point to tell intimate, small-scale stories about human emotion…
In a year where the excellent 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple expands on the already rich universe set forth by Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (2002) nearly a quarter century ago, this vision barely registers.
…tiene elementos de «Soy Leyenda» la saga de «Exterminio», entre otros…
Working against this gentle narrative are three key action sequences, each overbuilt and heavily reminiscent of similar films, from 28 Days Later to A Boy and His Dog.
…the final act throws in a sequence that's essentially 28 Days Later meets Fallout…
And even when the threat is realized and the film starts looking like a pastiche of 28 Days Later, The Last of Us, and The Road Warrior, Scott and editors Sam Restivo and Claire Simpson are so committed to the bit that they rarely push things into thrill-ride territory.
…it’s interesting to see Scott do what is essentially his version of The Shining…
…it almost has a "The Shining" Gold Room/ballroom vibe…
…kept in full glasses of grain alcohol by the barkeep straight out of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.”
There’s the loyal dog of I Am Legend, the manic berserkers of Mad Max (though without their wit or characterisation) and even the bonkers future-nostalgia of Fallout at one point.
…territory that belongs to a more surreal strain of post-apocalyptic fiction like Fallout or 28 Years Later…
Post-apocalypse horror and sci-fi survival thrillers continue to be all the rage currently, whether it’s The Last of Us, Fallout and Silo on TV or 28 Years Later, its sequel The Bone Temple and The End of Oak Street on the big screen.
…the final act throws in a sequence that's essentially 28 Days Later meets Fallout…
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Case in point, World War Z, the Percy Jackson films, the 1984 Dune movie, etc.
…who are a heartbeat away from all the tropes of fast zombies right out of World War Z…
I was reminded of World War Z (2013), in which Brad Pitt’s character visits places that have been impervious to zombie attacks until he visits.
…which, in those naive, pre-COVID times, was received as a rosier take on Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.”
(Think The Road, but not nearly as good.)
It’s tough to watch The Dog Stars without thinking of The Road, another film about trying to hold on to your love and humanity as the world collapses…
It certainly never quite achieves the same level of depression and isolation that The Road (2007) reaches.