If one genre was to stand out in the 70s that would have to be the disaster genre with films like Airport (1970), The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), Avalanche (1978), Damnation Alley (1979), The Swarm (1978) and Meteor (1979) populating the theatres throughout the 70s, but…
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Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) – Review
There aren’t many good video game adaptations out there, and even those few good ones aren’t really all that good when compared to your average straight-out action or horror movies.
City Beneath the Sea (1971) – Review
Writer, producer, and director Irwin Allen is probably most known as the “Master of Disaster” because of his successes with such films as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but in the 1960s he was most notably a producer of high adventure science fiction television shows. Programs such as Lost in Space, Voyage to…