Writer-director Charlie Polinger makes his feature debut with ‘The Plague,’ mixing ‘Lord of the Flies’ savagery with unsettling physical manifestations. Arriving literally at the tail end of 2025 (and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adolescence, and especially at an all-boys summer water polo camp, is hell in Charlie Polinger’s memorably disturbing first ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As buzz builds around The Plague (a movie that’s scheduled for a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on December 24, so Merry ...
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'The Plague' review: An unflinching and haunting look at what it's like to be a 12-year-old boy
For most men, there was never a more terrifying time than their junior high years. While, of course, we’ve seen movies like Diary of a Wimpy Kid jokingly call this time the worst years of your life, ...
“The Plague” filmmaker Charlie Polinger simply wanted to make a film that actually reflected his adolescent experiences. “I see a lot of movies about 12 year old boys that are often either a little ...
Anybody who’s attended elementary school in the last 100 years knows the concept of “cooties,” a fictional affliction that is typically caught when touched by a member of the opposite sex. A more ...
Foreboding title aside, one could reasonably begin watching Charlie Polinger’s “The Plague” and assume that it is a Y.A. coming of age drama— a modern-day “The 400 Blows” or a male “Welcome to the ...
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