Poignant and occasionally heart-wrenching, The Midnight Sky vacillates between the melancholy and the uplifting to tell a story that isn’t particularly unique, but is telling of our concerns as a species. The ship’s crew believes it has simply lost contact with Earth, and so it falls upon our hero, isolated in a remote bunker in the Arctic, to tell them not to return home.ĭirected by and starring George Clooney, this humanistic view of “the end of the world” shows us a very flawed man who nonetheless finds himself plagued with regret, detachment, and perhaps most terribly, hope for the future. Our protagonist identifies a shuttle returning from Jupiter’s apparently habitable moon K-23, which he himself discovered. Taking a reclusive work-addicted scientist seeking out habitable planets for humanity should earth become uninhabitable as its central character, The Midnight Sky visits Earth’s very near future to show a planet on which an unspecified disaster has decimated the population.
Stars: Jun Shison, Riria, Alice Hirose, Mamoru Miyano, Yuki Kaji, Tasuku Hatanaka.
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It might not necessarily break new ground, but it’s a beautiful movie to take in nonetheless, and full of all the bleak overtones one might expect of any proper dystopian film. The central characters are charming, but this is a film that leans into the full action capabilities of parkour and anime combined to weave a gorgeous vision of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. As the bubbles become increasingly unstable and threaten all who reside within the city, Hibiki and Uta are forced to act.Īttack on Titan and Death Note creator Tetsurō Araki has created a number of influential anime series, but Bubble hits a decidedly more fanciful note. Despite the danger, a number of young people engage in high-stakes parkour tournaments, bouncing around the abandoned city with Tokyo Tower considered the ultimate, as of yet unreachable, goal.Ī teen named Hibiki is shocked to find a girl who appears to have little to no context for human interactions who he names Uta. In this sci-fi parallel to Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid, a number of reality-bending bubbles are isolated to the city of Tokyo after an explosion at Tokyo Tower, but they make the city uninhabitable for the general population.
Though it doesn’t always completely nail the pacing, its premise sets the bar high, and it raises plenty of questions and keeps the plot reveals flowing. The harrowing action sequences and gorgeous cinematography make for a film that is easy on the eyes. In the Shadow of the Moon is a grim thriller that pulls in enough seemingly disparate themes to keep it interesting even during its lulls. Though he finds a suspect in a mysterious woman in a hoodie, the case goes unsolved, but in nine years, the exact same circumstances repeat, and the cop finds himself at the heart of a time traveling crime thriller, attempting to uncover how the suspect seems to know so much about him.
In 1988, a Philly cop and his partner are entangled in a bizarre mystery in which four seemingly unrelated people die in various places across the city in the same uniquely gruesome way, united apparently by nothing except the way they died.
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