Hollywood disaster films tend to center around one particular type of disaster, whether it be a tornado, an earthquake or a mid-air collision it’s usually only one particular issue, but with The Day After Tomorrow, Roland Emmerich took the Global Weather Crisis head-on and gave us a movie filled to the brim with all kinds…
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Earthquake (1974) – Review
Back in 1970, Universal Pictures released their star-studded disaster film Airport, a film based on Arthur Hailey’s popular novel that arguably kicked off the 70s’ disaster boom by pulling in $100 million dollars. Then, in 1972, good ol’ 20th Century Fox released their disaster epic The Poseidon Adventure, which amped the carnage up and earned…
Flood (1976) – Review
Movies such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure marked Irwin as “The Master of Disaster” with these big-budgeted disaster theatrical releases, but he also brought some of his movie mayhem to the small screen, case in point, his 1976 made-for-television movie Flood. Of course, the problem with taking the disaster genre to the…
Noah (2014) – Review
There have been several adaptations of the Genesis flood myth and as religious pictures tend to make for good box office dollars I’m sure we will see more, but this latest version by Darren Aronofsky is easily the grimmest yet. I’m not a biblical scholar so I certainly won’t rain on this movie’s bona fides by…