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Tue Dec 22, 2020 at 1:59pm ET George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall in The Midnight Sky.  Pic credit: Netflix George Clooney learned a lot about stories set in outer space with Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity and Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris. Now, with Netflix’s The Midnight Sky , he directs and stars in the post-apocalyptic story based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight, that plays out on both Earth – in the Arctic — and in space. As the story opens, there has been...

USA TODAY There are worse people to be stuck with in the Arctic Circle, at the end of the world, in a galactically ambitious film, than George Clooney. Brandishing a bushy beard and plenty of gravitas – though this is no “Gravity” – Clooney stars in as well as directs “The Midnight Sky” (★★½ out of four; rated PG-13; in select theaters, streaming Dec. 23 on Netflix), an apocalyptic film that works well as a meditation on mortality and exploration of human connection. For much...

TV Editor Despite the times were in, George Clooney remains a man of hope. Here, John Byrne catches up with The Midnight Sky director/lead actor and co-star Felicity Jones as the post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie lands on Netflix It might seem a bit inappropriate that Hollywood is producing dystopian movies at this time, given that we’re in a pandemic. It’s a bit of a buzz-kill when a bit of cheering-up might be what’s required at Christmastime. But it’s also giving us a bit of perspective...

Directed by George Clooney. Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall, Kyle Chandler, Demian Bichir, Tiffany Boone, Sophie Rundle and Ethan Peck. SYNOPSIS: One isolated scientist (George Clooney) remains behind at a research station in the Arctic. His only responsibility to ensure that a group of astronauts are dissuaded from returning to an inhospitable planet Earth. It is rare that an Oscar winning actor director manages to make mediocrity, but George Clooney ...

The New Paper Movie review: The Midnight Sky In his latest passion project, actor-director George Clooney plays a cancer-stricken scientist trying to save a group of astronauts from returning to a desolate Earth. PHOTO: NETFLIX 0 Engagements After Suburbicon (2017) and Catch-22 (2019), George Clooneys latest passion project that he stars in, directed and produced is not exactly the movie experience one might expect. For an apocalyptic sci-fi drama, The Midnight Sky - which premieres on Netflix ...

CST_ Netflix presents a film directed by George Clooney and written by Mark L. Smith, based on the novel “Good Morning, Midnight” by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Rated PG-13 (for some bloody images and brief strong language). Running time: 118 minutes. Available Wednesday on Netflix. In the upcoming “Wonder Woman 1984,” the world has been thrown into chaos and we’re on the brink of nuclear war. In “Songbird,” an advanced strain of COVID has a mortality rate of 56% and virtu...

SHARE George Clooney has been in two of the great Hollywood sci-fi films of the 21st century. Steven Soderbergh’s daring remake of Solaris came in 2002, followed by 2013s brilliant Gravity, a film that truly blasts viewers into space with its stomach-flipping camera work. As David Oyelowo, Clooney’s co-star in his new Netflix-backed post-apocalyptic film, The Midnight Sky, claims: “George is basically to space movies what De Niro is to gangster movies.” However, after two trips beyo...

Bridgerton  Regency London. Beautiful debutante Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and the devilishly handsome but rakish Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) are faking a romance – an arrangement that suits them both.  A cast that seems to consist of at least half of the actors in Britain (including Ben Miller, Bessie Carter, Polly Walker and Golda Rosheuvel (above)) But what if they develop real feelings for each other? And what if Lady Whistledown (Julie Andrews), the anonymous author of ...

TV guide: 44 of the best shows to watch this week From carols to cooking, children’s animation, documentaries and streaming dramas Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 06:00 Sunday, TG4, 9.30pm A concert of traditional music from St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church in the heart of Galway city, presented by Cormac Begley. During the 1990’s, the duet Begley and Steve Cooney reached national acclaim and were regarded as one of the foremost performers of Irish music. Cooney pioneered a new approach to traditional...

Follow Dec. 20, 2020 We can only assume the executives at Netflix stopped listening after the first few words of the original film pitch – “There’s this old guy with a white beard, working in the Arctic Circle…” – when they decided to release “The Midnight Sky” just in time for Christmas. Either that or they’re trying really hard to position themselves as the “anti-Hallmark” with this sci-fi drama, which is set in the year 2049 after an unseen cataclysmic event destroys mo...