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,…
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Into the Storm (2014) – Review
This does seem to be another year of disaster movie mania. Earlier in the year we got Pompeii which was basically Gladiator meets Titanic on the slopes of Dante’s Peak, and then we had Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, which was about the world’s first disaster story and was kind of dreadful in its own right, but…
Snowpiercer (2013) – Review
There have been many post-apocalyptic movies dealing with civilization crumbling due to a variety of catastrophes, from man-made to Mother Nature striking back, and Joon-ho Bong, director of The Host (the monster one not the drippy Stephenie Meyer’s one), has now certainly made one of the better installments in this particular genre. Think The Road Warrior only…
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…