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Granger on Film: The Midnight Sky is part space odyssey, part Arctic survival story Susan Granger FacebookTwitterEmail This image released by Netflix shows Caoilinn Springall, right, and George Clooney in a scene from "The Midnight Sky." (Philippe Antonello/Netflix via AP)Philippe Antonello/AP Part outer-space epic/part bleak Arctic survival story, George Clooney’s “The Midnight Sky” on Netflix follows a lonely astrophysicist as he races to stop American astronauts from returning to Earth...

The world has pretty much already ended at the beginning of director and star George Clooney’s mournful new survival drama, The Midnight Sky (Netflix, December 23). Something—a gas? Nuclear radiation? A chemical plague?—has swiftly wiped out most of Earth’s population, clouds of death expanding across the planet on their way toward the poles. In the icy far north, scientist Augustine (Clooney)—bearded and solitary like a lonely Santa Claus—awaits his inevitable e...

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...

‘Midnight Sky’ shines bright for George Clooney, young co-star By Mark Greczmiel | December 21, 2020 at 11:25 AM EST - Updated December 21 at 1:24 PM George Clooney is no stranger to movies that have an outer space theme: He starred in 2002′s “Solaris” and had a much smaller -- although highly-important -- role in Sandra Bullock’s 2013 hit, “Gravity.” The 59-year old actor-filmmaker now returns to that genre with the seventh movie hes chosen to direct...

More R-Rated Star Trek Movies Reportedly In The Works At Paramount Trying to keep an eye on what’s going on with the feature-length Star Trek franchise is becoming increasingly difficult even if things are looking pretty rosy on the small screen, with Discovery recently acknowledging J.J. Abrams’ Kelvin timeline for the very first time, while executive producer Alex Kurtzman no doubt has much bigger plans in mind given that he’s mapped out the future on television until 2027. Trek movie...

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...

The Associated Press This image released by Netflix shows Caoilinn Springall, right, and George Clooney in a scene from "The Midnight Sky." (Philippe Antonello/Netflix via AP) Netflix is on a roll this year, with “Mank,”“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,”“Da 5 Bloods” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” all garnering Oscar buzz. Well, hold onto your spacesuits for the latest — “The Midnight Sky.” George Clooney directs and stars in this feature film adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton...

With no movie theaters open on Cape Cod, people who usually add seeing the latest releases into their holiday plans will have to do that from the couch. But studios have made that easy, by releasing top titles on streaming services or on demand — some at the same time as in those theaters still open in other parts of the state and country. Some recent and upcoming choices as described, and sometimes reviewed by Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: ► “Ma Raineys Black Bottom" (just out Fr...

The apocalypse is predictable in George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky Clooney plays an ailing astronomer staring down the end of the world in this terminally flawed Netflix drama by Norman Wilner on December 17th, 2020 at 3:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 The Midnight Sky  The most frustrating thing about The Midnight Sky is that you can see a way for it to work. Or at least I could; just a couple of minor tweaks—move this revelation up here, tweak that casting choice, fix this tonal decision—an...

A man alone, with a quarantine beard, sits and eats a plateful of whatever he probably ate the day before. He shuffles back to his computer screens, monitoring red-zone hot spots. He wonders if his old life is gone for good. He’s longing for human contact. He wonders where it all went wrong. And he’s fatally ill, as we learn in the opening minutes of “The Midnight Sky,” director and star George Clooney’s grandly executed Netflix film streaming Dec. 23. Just what I need. Some peppy esc...