Director/star George Clooney’s
The Midnight Sky, an alternately moving and exciting mediation on the apocalypse, is now available to stream on Netflix.
The year is 2049 and something in the air is killing everyone and everything on Earth. Whatever it is (we’re never told), it spreads like a radiation cloud (which it might be) and will soon consume the whole planet. It’s literally the End of the World, and after having come to terms with that fact, a scientific base in the Arctic is being evacuated so everyone can go and be with their families. Left behind is Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney), a scientist whose obsessive dedication to his work has ensured he has no one to go home to.