'The Dog Stars' review: Ridley Scott’s love story set against disaster

'The Dog Stars' review: Ridley Scott’s love story set against disaster  AP News

Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin romp through a strangely brutal, folksy and weird world in fits and starts

The lovable dog in Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars isn’t actually the star of film, despite the title. Sadly, Jasper is only a supporting player in the first half hour of the movie. The real star here is Jacob Elordi, who is continuing to show genuine chops as a leading man. He does it again…

Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, Allison Janney and Benedict Wong also star in this adaptation of Peter Heller’s novel about survivors trying to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic future.

The Dog Stars review — Jacob Elordi shines in Ridley Scott’s zombie film  The Times

The famouse director has really lost it in the decade since “The Martian.”

It’s the end of the world as we know it in “The Dog Stars,” and everyone feels — well, not fine exactly, but, you know, fine? Alive, hanging in there, taking it one day at a time. Things could be better, which goes without saying in the aftermath of a flu pandemic that has wiped…