By 1977 Irwin Allen had already secured the moniker of “Master of Disaster” as his big screen epics The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno had become huge hits, but this didn’t make Mister Allen abandon his television roots so he took his love of mass destruction to the small screen in the form of…
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972) – Review
In 1970 Hollywood kicked off the “all-star” modern disaster film with Airport, an adaptation of Arthur Hailey’s bestselling novel where a mad bomber threatened the lives of all those on board a fateful Boeing 707, but it was with the release of The Poseidon Adventure that the 70s disaster boom was properly launched, and today…
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…
The Black Hole (1979) – Review
What do you get when you cross Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with Shakespeare’s The Tempest? Well in 1979 Walt Disney Studios kind of answered that question with the release of their first PG-rated film called The Black Hole, unfortunately, that answer was something audiences of the late 70s were not particularly interested in…
Future Cop: The Complete Series (1976-77) – Review
A decade before Robocop was patrolling the streets of Old Detroit ABC was trying to get their own robot cop to the masses, without much success. In May of 1976, ABC released a pilot movie called Future Cop; it was about a grizzled veteran street cop who finds himself partnered with an android.