Mother Nature throws some pretty mean left hooks when it comes to disasters, from hurricanes to earthquakes she can be bloody terrifying, but there is something both regal and terrifying about an erupting volcano and in 1997 Hollywood gave us not one but two films with this spectacular geological event as its centrepiece. The first…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Dante’s Peak (1997) – Review
Today, we’ll be diving into the fiery depths of Dante’s Peak, a disaster movie that’s hotter than a jalapeño pepper on a summer’s day and pits James Bond and Sarah Conner against one of Earth’s mightiest creations, of course, the film’s biggest foe wasn’t Mother Nature but the other volcano movie staring Tommy Lee Jones,…
Independence Day (1996) – Review
Alien invasion films have been a staple of science fiction movies for decades with such classics as George Pal’s War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers bringing alien destruction to the big screen, but in 1996 Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich took that standard sci-fi element and blended it with…
Tornado! (1996) – Review
When a major studio has a high-profile project in the pipeline it’s not unusual for smaller production houses to try and piggyback their own similar-themed films to capitalize on these bigger releases, especially if that larger film is getting a lot of good buzz, such was the case in 1996 when Hallmark Entertainment made-for-television tornado…
Twister (1996) – Review
Ever since seeing The Wizard of Oz as a child, I’ve been fascinated by tornadoes but when it comes to their depictions in cinema they have been fairly scarce as the effects needed to create these rather unique examples of Mother Nature’s fury aren’t as easy to pull off, or at least not as easy…