Tag: Awake
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‘Awake’ Review: Netflix Thriller About a Sleep Deprivation Pandemic Has Opposite Effect
In director Mark Raso’s occasionally engaging but mostly frustrating sci-fi thriller, an unexplained event causes a massive electromagnetic pulse that fries most electronics and leaves nearly all of humanity incapable of sleep. From the mysterious incident onward, the characters slowly slide toward insanity as fatigue takes its toll, although it’s not clear how everyone on…
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Awake review – Netflix’s Bird Box-lite thriller is a real snooze
Gina Rodriguez can’t save a silly and unintentionally amusing apocalyptic tale about a mysterious affliction that means people are no longer able to sleepThere’s something so distractingly and, errr, sleepily half-assed about the inert new Netflix thriller Awake that watching it is almost as much of a bore as having to then write about it.…
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‘Awake’ Trailer: A Post-Apocalyptic Movie Where No One Can Fall Asleep
In A Quiet Place, people need to remain silent. In Birdbox, people need to keep their eyes shut. Now here comes Awake, where everyone somehow loses the ability to sleep. This latest post-apocalyptic thriller looks like a mishmash of Children of Men and The Last of Us video game series, with a little Bird Box…
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Gina Rodriguez’s Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Awake’ Rounds Out Cast (Exclusive)
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Pepper and “Game of Thrones” actor Finn Jones will join Gina Rodriguez in Netflix’s sci-fi thriller “Awake.”The newly announced cast also includes Ariana Greenblatt, Frances Fisher, Shamier Anderson, Lucius Hoyos and Gil Bellows.“Awake” is set after a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep,…
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Rupert Wyatt Exits Showtime’s ‘Halo’ Series as Director, Executive Producer
The bumpy road to a live-action Halo adaptation just got even bumpier. Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt is stepping down as a director and executive producer on Showtimes upcoming live-action Halo series from showrunner Kyle Killen (Awake). “Showtime’s adaptation of Halo is evolving beautifully with rich characters, compelling stories and…