I’ll make no bones about disaster films being a genre I’m particularly fond of — something about national landmarks exploding or massive tidal waves engulfing whole cities being a great backdrop for both action and drama — and Hollywood has done much to fulfill audiences’ desire to see such massive catastrophes in all their glory….
Tag: disaster film
When Time Ran Out (1980) – Review
The 1970s were the golden age of disaster films and producer Irwin Allen is the undisputed “Master of Disaster” with The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure still being the gold standard of the genre. But when the 80s rolled around, the well had just about dried up on disaster films; thus, when Irwin Allen’s…
Rollercoaster (1977) – Review
With such films as Two Minute Warning and Black Sunday populating the theatres in the late 70s it’s a wonder people ever went out in public, it seemed that being killed by a mad sniper or similarly armed terrorist was almost a forgone conclusion, and if it wasn’t terrorists it was a Great White Shark…
These Final Hours (2013) – Review
“Life is stronger than death,” states one of the characters from writer/director Zak Hilditch’s end of the world movie These Final Hours, but as a meteor has hit the Earth, and all life will be soon extinguished, that may be a nice sentiment but not all that accurate.
The Finest Hours (2016) – Review
When you see “Based on a True Story” on a movie poster or trailer one must take such a statement with a grain of salt. Despite what the movies tell us William Wallace of Braveheart fame did not have an affair with Isabelle of France (she was only nine years old at the time) nor…