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…
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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,…
Meteor (1979) – Review
For cinephiles, the 70s was the heyday of the disaster movie beginning in 1972 with Irwin Allen’s excellent film The Poseidon Adventure and ending with today’s feature, the less-than-stellar outing from American International Picture in an attempt to blend the Cold War political thriller with the elements of your standard disaster movie, and for that,…
Deep Impact (1998) – Review
In 1998 we were treated to two big disaster movies, both involving a comet heading for Earth, and while many people took great joy in poking fun at Michael Bay’s Armageddon, I’d be the first to agree that it was utterly stupid if fun film, but as dumb as it was it never took itself…