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âThe Midnight Skyâ (Netflix)
A lonely scientist. A mysterious global catastrophe. A group of astronauts stuck on another planet. George Clooney s âThe Midnight Skyâ boasts of visionary screenplay and top-notch cast. Based on Lily Brooks-Daltonâs acclaimed novel âGood Morning, Midnightâ, the post-apocalyptic film follows Augustine (Clooney) as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home.
The grandeur of the movie has caught many eyes, and if like us, you re wondering where the movie was filmed, here s all the scoop from behind-the-scene excerpts from the filmmakers provided to streaming giant Netflix. As sophisticated as some of the tools would be, the film was shot on the large-format Arri Alexa 65 camera with a significant amount of digital work - sometimes the solution to a problem is the most obvious one.
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Pascal enjoyed letting women do all the action in Wonder Woman 1984
Pedro Pascal, who plays evil entrepreneur Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984, said the role was delicious for him and he enjoyed that his character didn t need to fight anyone. PHOTO: WARNER BROS
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From gaining fame as hot-headed sexy beast Oberyn Martell in the HBO series Game Of Thrones to portraying the titular bounty hunter in the Star Wars Disney+ series The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal is usually in his comfort zone as the suave anti-hero with dangerous combat skills.
But fans will see a very different side of the 45-year-old Chilean-American actor in Wonder Woman 1984, which opens here on Dec 17.
Rude politicians We asked for recollections of the Royal Smithfield Show from the London years and we ve not been disappointed. Andrew Gilmour, who was on the show board for a few years and chairman for two years in the 1990s, recalled when The Queen Mother, in her capacity as show president, came to Earls Court every year. She was always the host at the show lunch and various eminent agriculturalists and politicians were asked to the lunch. Andrew said of one visitor: On his arrival, I was asked by the then Scottish Agriculture Minister, John Sewell – this was before devolution – what time the lunch would finish. I said that I didn’t know, but that it would be when Her Majesty decides to leave.
Reading List: John Sewell, “The Shape of the Suburbs”
When John Sewell’s book
The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl came out in 2009, I read it soon after publication, flagging passages with the intent to write about in for
Spacing. But life and work intervened, and it’s been sitting on my bookshelf, crammed with book darts, yellow sticky notes, and scribbles on scratch pad paper, for the past decade. Now I’ve finally found a moment and reason to go back to it (for another project). It’s still an interesting and relevant piece of work, so I’m sharing not so much a review as some of the insights it contains.