Hollywood disaster films tend to center around one particular type of disaster, whether it be a tornado, an earthquake or a mid-air collision it’s usually only one particular issue, but with The Day After Tomorrow, Roland Emmerich took the Global Weather Crisis head-on and gave us a movie filled to the brim with all kinds…
Category: Reviews
The Core (2003) – Review
A group travelling to the centre of the Earth is certainly nothing new, Jules Verne tackled such a topic back in 1864 and we’ve seen film adaptations of his novel ever since, but director Jon Amiel took such a well-worn premise into the disaster movie genre in a film that’s about as scientifically accurate as…
Hard Rain (1998) – Review
Get ready to dive into a flood of excitement with the Christian Slater/Morgan Freeman flick Hard Rain, an action-packed gem that might not be a cinematic masterpiece but it sure knows how to make a splash and keep you on the edge of your seat. Just keep your rubbers handy.
Armageddon (1998) – Review
It’s not unusual for two studios to launch similarly themed movies at roughly the same time, back in 1997 we had the Tommy Lee Jones film Volcano up against Dante’s Peak starring Pierce Brosnan duking it out in cinemas, and then a year later the Meteor disaster film Deep Impact opened, which was then quickly…
Volcano (1997) – Review
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…