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     It’s mere coincidence George Clooney resembles Santa and dwells atop the North Pole while on a not-so-jolly journey to the ends of the Earth in “The Midnight Sky.” So don’t be fooled by the long gray beard and icebox setting for a dour end of the world mopefest in which it’s 2049 and climate change is killing off all the girls and boys, both naughty and nice. Father Christmas his oddly named Augustine is not. He’s actually a celebrated astronomer fed up with his fellow huma...

Staring into the void Staring into the void Actor-director George Clooney opens up about post-apocalyptic flick The Midnight Sky and the concept of family and mortality published : 15 Dec 2020 at 04:00 8 George Clooney is probably best-known to Hollywood fans as a true screen icon, Oscar-winning actor, and the heartthrob of every womans dreams. However, it may surprise some to learn that the man has also cultivated himself a directing career and that he has been behind the camera for nearl...

Chris Pine Hopeful For Star Trek Return With Quentin Tarantino ✖ Chris Pine is ready and hopeful to return to Star Trek, especially if Quentin Tarantinos plan of making an R-rated, intergalactic space saga comes to fruition. Pine currently gearing up for the release of Wonder Woman 1984, where he reprises his role as Steve Trevor following the debut in 2017s Wonder Woman movie. As DC fans get their wish of seeing more of Pine and Gal Gadot together, Star Trek fans have been left waiting for...

We haven’t seen much of George Clooney lately, and we’ve missed him. He last starred in 2016’s largely disappointing “Money Monster” and directed the following year’s similarly lackluster “Suburbicon.” However, Clooney has had plenty of winning efforts in front of and behind the camera. - Advertisement - “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” “Ocean’s Eleven.” “Good Night, and Good Luck.” “Up in the Air.” “Gravity.�...

We haven’t seen much of George Clooney lately, and we’ve missed him. He last starred in 2016’s largely disappointing “Money Monster” and directed the following year’s similarly lackluster “Suburbicon.” However, Clooney has had plenty of winning efforts in front of and behind the camera. - Advertisement - “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” “Ocean’s Eleven.” “Good Night, and Good Luck.” “Up in the Air.” “Gravity.�...

Chris Pine Hopes Quentin Tarantino Will Direct Star Trek 4 There hasn’t been a new Star Trek movie for four years now, though that’s not for a lack of trying. Paramount has been developing various different projects from a range of talented filmmakers, but so far, none of them have managed to reach the production stage. Originally, part of the delay was allegedly due to a contractual dispute with leading man Chris Pine. At this point, though, he sounds keen to return as Captain James Tiber...

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....

George Clooney and Alexandre Desplat on the score to Netflix's 'The Midnight Sky'.

George Clooney directs and stars in a maudlin science-fiction drama that should be eerily prescient for 2020, but misses the mark, writes Nicholas Barber.

The Midnight Sky is not without its strengths. George Clooney stars as an astronomer after earth has been devastated by a catastrophe.