Love and Monsters, review: Netflix comes good with a monster-filled doomsday romp
Dylan O'Brien in Netflix's Love and Monsters Credit: Jasin Boland Dir: Michael Matthews. Cast: Dylan O’Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Ariana Greenblatt, Dan Ewing. 109 mins Milking doomsday for comedy sounds counterintuitive, but it isn’t – in fact, maniacal laughter, in something like Dr Strangelove, comes across as the only sane response. But there’s a related subgenre for filmmakers to dabble in: the end-of-the-world romcom. Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg got it together in Zombieland; the very title Pride and Prejudice and Zombies speaks for itself. The bromance of all t...