A few days ago, while searching for something interesting to watch on Netflix I stumbled across a movie I had managed to have never heard of. This, despite the fact that it has several actors I know and like and is definitely the kind of story that I like. Last Night is the debut film by the Canadian writer/director/actor Don McKellar, and is set during the last six hours before the literal end of the world. An unspecified disaster, which has apparently been known about for at least several months, is going to kill every last human being on the planet at the stroke of midnight (Eastern time). The story follows a small group of characters whose stories interweave over the course of their final half-dozen hours of existence.



The cast includes Sandra Oh, Sarah Polley (she was the little girl in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, but you would probably...