Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...

Exclusive: Charlie Polinger's first feature premiered at Cannes and stars Joel Edgerton as the head of a water polo camp made up of boys wreaking havoc upon each other. Adolescence, and especially at ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Independent Film Company releases “The Plague” in select theaters on December 24. The experience of engaging ...

The Plague, a world premiere today in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, may be fiction, but it brought back vivid, not-so-pleasant memories of my days in elementary school and ...

In this episode of the No Film School Podcast, host GG Hawkins sits down with filmmaker Charlie Polinger to unpack the making of his debut feature, The Plague. Polinger discusses his transition from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlie Polinger achieves a lot with relatively little with his feature directorial debut, "The Plague." Getting a wide release ...

Puberty is one of the scariest times in our lives. That period where our body experiences changes, each one bringing with it a certain paranoid terror. Remember going ...

“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 ...

THE PLAGUE is one of those horror films that taps into familiar childhood, in this case, early adolescence and the bullying that frequently comes with that, and uses this familiarity to create the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The experience of engaging with a film can give you a reference for expressing a personal idea that you didn’t previously have the ...