Hello, Review-Verse audience! Poster of ‘The Dog Stars.’ Courtesy of 20th Century Studios. Today’s subject: Ridley Scott ’s The Dog Stars, based on the novel by Peter Heller. Jacob Elordi as Hig and Josh Brolin as Bangley from ‘The Dog Stars.’ Courtesy of 20th Century Studios. The film took place in 2035. Jacob Elordi from Wuthering Heights starred as mechanic Hig, a survivor of a flu pandemic living with his dog Jasper and former Marine Bangley, played by Josh Brolin of Avengers: Endgame . Despite flying from their base in Erie, CO to Denver for supplies and reflections on his deceased wife, Hig longed to fly to a rumored safe haven in Grand Junction, CO, against Bangley’s protests given the hopelessness since the pandemic. Jasper the dog and Jacob Elordi as Hig from ‘The Dog Stars.’ Courtesy of 20th Century Studios. When Hig decided to finally make his dream a reality, he flew off with Bangley staying behind to defend their base from savages called Reapers. However, his plane ...
Hello, Review-Verse readers. ‘By Any Mean’ official release poster. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures and IMDb.com. Today, I’m going to be discussing By Any Means starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg . At first, I thought it was a buddy cop comedy starring the two, but it’s actually a historical crime drama taking place in 1966 Mississippi. Mark Wahlberg as Gregory Scarpa and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as FBI Special Agent Wayne Strider in ‘By Any Means.’ Courtesy of Paramount Pictures and IMDb.com. Abdul-Mateen, who you may recognize as Marvel’s Wonder Man or Black Manta from DC’s Aquaman , played Wayne Strider , an FBI Special Agent in Jackson, Mississippi assigned to the file room. Wahlberg played Gregory Scarpa , a hitman and enforcer for the Colombo crime family assigned to work with Strider to solve NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer ’s, played by Giancarlo Esposito , murder by white supremacists firebombing his house. FBI Special Agent Wayne Strider, played by Yahya Abd...