This article contains spoilers for The Midnight SkyIn The Midnight Sky, the new Netflix film starring and directed by George Clooney, life on a post-apocalyptic planet looks every bit as miserable as life on a planet weathering a pandemic.
Clooney plays Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist attempting to travel through the Arctic Circle with a wide-eyed young girl at his side, all in order to stop a spaceship returning to earth after a global catastrophe.
There are turbulent sequences through blizzards, shiny spaceship doors swooshing open and unappetising space meals of brown mush and peas.
There is also, as has become almost a pre-requisite for sci-fi movies, a lot of forlorn gazing into space (quite literally) for a lost love.
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