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,…
Category: Reviews
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…
Titanic (1997) – Review
There have been so many cinematic retellings of the sinking of this legendary ship, dating back as far as the silent era, but one of the most well-regarded adaptations of the story would be the 1958 British film A Night to Remember, which is still widely considered to be the most historically accurate cinematic portrayal…