All posts tagged: midnight

‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: Parisian Midlife Crisis Flick

‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: Parisian Midlife Crisis Flick

Published by Daniella Wilson

Léo (Melvil Poupaud), a former journalist turned untenured college professor, is not exactly what you’d call a success story, although he’s far from being a failure. Thoughtful, fairly seductive, still handsome despite some visible hair loss, the 49-year-old single dad seems to have led a relatively good life, so why does he seem so down on himself? Those who seek out French director Nicolas Pariser’s latest feature shouldn’t expect a definitive answer to that inquiry, or any answers at all, really. One Minute to Midnight (Un peu avant minuit) is very much a film about a guy asking lots of questions — both of himself and of the coterie of old friends and lovers he runs into during a brief stay in Paris — wondering aloud who he once was and who, for better or worse, he’s become. One Minute to Midnight The Bottom Line He’ll always have Paris. Venue: Venice Film Festival (Competition)Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Anaïs Demoustier, Golshifteh Farahani, Léonie Simaga, Clara Pacini, Micha LescotDirector, screenwriter: Nicolas Pariser 1 hour 51 minutes …

Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas

Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas

Published by Jenni Sidey

An emergency alert goes out to every phone on one side of a Florida town. Severe summer storms, high winds, curfew in effect from midnight until six, running through October. It reads like weather. It is not weather. Somebody with money has worked out that a community whose people clean hotel rooms at dawn and close bars at two cannot survive a rule that makes it illegal to be outside at night, and he has written that rule specifically to trap one man. Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas hangs an entire novel on that single piece of paperwork, and it is the most efficient thing she has built in years. How Midnight Curfew Is Built The architecture is worth describing, because it does most of the work. Two narrators alternate, both in first person present tense. Dallas Jaeger is twenty-five, teaches philosophy at the private academy on the rich side of the tracks, and belongs to a family that has held its land for five hundred years by refusing to be moved. Callum Ames is …

How ‘The Midnight Boys’ Became Your Favorite Nerd’s Favorite Podcast

How ‘The Midnight Boys’ Became Your Favorite Nerd’s Favorite Podcast

Published by Sam Flores

Initially, the plan was for Lathan and The Ringer’s Mallory Rubin to host the show together: “The original thing was, Mallory was going to do her thing; I was gonna do some stuff. But the reality of it was that we were covering stuff with a rotating cast of people,” Lathan says. “I’m not trying to diss nobody, but it wasn’t really, at least on my side, something that seemed like it was gonna be recreatable.” So the plan shifted. At the time, Holmes was primarily working on music-related content for the website—but he’d already worked with Lathan on a podcast covering WandaVision. The higher-ups proposed Holmes as a permanent cohost, while Rubin went off to cohost another Ringer show, House of R. In the beginning, the unnamed Lathan-Holmes show was intended to fill a specific vacuum, providing instant reactions to things like the latest superhero-movie trailer or the newest episode of The Mandalorian, which often dropped at midnight. That mandate is what inspired the podcast’s name. Over time, though, its scope expanded. The Midnight Boys …

GTA 6 Confirms Price Tag, Ultimate Edition, Midnight Preorders and More

GTA 6 Confirms $80 Price Tag, Ultimate Edition, Midnight Preorders and More

Published by skeptic

Grand Theft Auto 6 preorders started at midnight your local time after publisher Rockstar Games finally confirmed the new installment’s price. The likely Game of the Year winner for 2026 will cost $80 when it releases on Nov. 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles, according to a statement from Rockstar.  Along with the standard edition, Rockstar is also offering an Ultimate Edition of the game that comes with more content, including exclusive vehicles and cosmetics, for $100. Calling GTA 6 a highly anticipated game doesn’t do it justice. It’s been more than a decade since the release of GTA 5, and after multiple delays, the latest entry in the GTA franchise is finally on its way. Will GTA 6 be the greatest game ever created? Who knows, but the excitement has already hit a fever pitch with three months left before launch. What is the release date for GTA 6? GTA 6 is currently slated to be released on Nov. 19, 2026. The game was initially scheduled for a 2025 release, but was …

West Channel Rd. Designer Tatiana Dieteman on Her Knitwear Line Made for Morning to Midnight

West Channel Rd. Designer Tatiana Dieteman on Her Knitwear Line Made for Morning to Midnight

Published by Daniella Wilson

If your ideal outfit is something you can throw on in the morning and still wear at midnight, Tatiana Dieteman gets it. The West Channel Rd. founder built her brand around that exact energy, filled with knitwear that looks chic without asking you to try too hard. Dieteman, a former model, launched the line in 2022 after teaching herself to crochet in 2020, initially creating pieces for herself before word (and demand) spread. Tatiana Dieteman/Instagram “Knitting started as something very personal for me. It felt meditative, tactile, and grounding,” she tells ET. “I began making pieces for myself, and quickly friends and family started asking for them as well.” After years in front of the camera, Dieteman developed a sharp instinct for how clothes should fit and she brought that into her own designs. “Modeling expanded my understanding of personal style in a very hands-on way. I was constantly stepping into different designers’ worlds, learning how clothing can shift depending on how it’s worn, styled, and carried,” she explains. Tatiana Dieteman/Instagram “It made me deeply …

Journey into the midnight sun: my solo road trip to the top of Norway | Road trips

Journey into the midnight sun: my solo road trip to the top of Norway | Road trips

Published by Sam Flores

It’s midnight, in June. Powder pink and dark grey clouds drift across a pallid sky, the palette reflecting in the motionless water of Lake Inari. Islets of pine and just-budding birch create pools of distorted shade close to the horizon of this 420 sq mile (1,080 sq km) lake in Lapland, northern Finland. There is not a sound. It’s so silent, I barely breathe to avoid disturbance. Only me, the lake and a moonbeam-coloured moth, whose wingbeat is inaudible. I am sat beside my car-sized campervan, with mesmerised reverence for the rose-tinged panorama. I do not wish to go to bed and miss this moment. And I am loving the wild freedom and deliciousness of being entirely alone, with nobody in the world knowing my exact whereabouts. Ordinarily, I would be long asleep by midnight, exhausted after a day of work and family life. But I have left my husband and (adult) children at home in England for an eight-week solo camping adventure through Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, with the singular aim of reaching …

Paramount to Buy ‘The Midnight Sun’ With Florence Pugh, Garth Davis

Paramount to Buy ‘The Midnight Sun’ With Florence Pugh, Garth Davis

Published by Daniella Wilson

Paramount is closing in on acquiring hot Cannes film market titles The Midnight Sun, to be directed by Garth Davis and to star Florence Pugh, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Paramount is paying more than $30 million for the rights to the film. StudioCanal, which is backing the feature project, will distribute the film in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, with Paramount distributing in the rest of the world. The adaptation of the book by Matt Haig is likely the biggest deal out of the Cannes film market. The story centers on Nora Seed, who finds herself in a magical library between life and death, filled with books that offer her to see the many outcomes of lives not lived. Pugh is slated to play Seed. The Midnight Sun won’t be Davis and Pugh’s first collaboration, as the two worked together on the upcoming limited Netflix series East of Eden. Davis has also helmed the Oscar-nominated Lion, the Elizabeth Moss-starring Top of the Lake and Foe (2023). …

Netflix viewers ‘up at midnight’ to binge-watch returning 8-part drama The Four Seasons

Netflix viewers ‘up at midnight’ to binge-watch returning 8-part drama The Four Seasons

Published by Daniella Wilson

Netflix viewers have been staying up until midnight to binge-watch the new season of The Four Seasons. Created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, the comedy-drama first landed on Netflix in May 2025 and followed three middle-aged couples who vacation together once every season. With a cast packed full of comedy royalty, including Steve Carell and Tina Fey, the series quickly became a fan favourite. © Courtesy of NetflixTina Fey as Kate and Colman Domingo as Danny After earning a 78 per cent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes for its debut season, the new instalment follows the group as they grapple with the aftermath of Nick’s sudden death. As someone who binge-watched the first season when it premiered, I can’t wait to tune in and see how the close-knit group navigate life without their friend. With Tina Fey leading the charge both on screen and behind the scenes, viewers are bound to be laughing one minute and crying the next.  WATCH: The Four Seasons Trailer What are viewers saying about The Four Seasons …

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is a particular kind of book that makes you want to stop, look up from the page, and ring someone you have not spoken to in too long. The Midnight Train by Matt Haig is one of those books. It arrives nearly six years after The Midnight Library, and rather than offering a tidy sequel, it builds a companion piece. The two novels now sit on the shelf like siblings politely arguing about how a life ought to be lived. What You Are Stepping Into The Premise in Brief Wilbur Budd is eighty-one, wealthy, a celebrated bookseller, and quite alone in a large Bedfordshire house. After a phone call from someone he has not heard from in decades, he finds himself, very politely and very inconveniently, dead. From there, his life flashes by exactly as the cliché promises, only the flashing happens through the windows of an old steam engine. His guide is a ghost named Agnes Bagdale, who knew him as a coin-less child loitering in her Sheffield bookshop. Together they ride through …