Let’s face it: when the original Twister blew into theatres in 1996, we got a very unique disaster movie. It gave us flying cows, exploding tractors, and Bill Paxton’s intense weather-channel eyes. Fast forward nearly 30 years, and 2024’s Twisters spun its way onto the screen with a bigger budget, smarter storms, and a level…
Tag: Tornado
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – Review
Hollywood disaster films tend to centre 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…
Tornado! (1996) – Review
When a major studio has a high-profile project in the pipeline, it’s not unusual for smaller production houses to try and piggyback their own similar-themed films to capitalize on these bigger releases, especially if that larger film is getting a lot of good buzz, such was the case in 1996 when Hallmark Entertainment’s made-for-television tornado…
Twister (1996) – Review
Ever since seeing The Wizard of Oz as a child, I’ve been fascinated by tornadoes but when it comes to their depictions in cinema they have been fairly scarce as the effects needed to create these rather unique examples of Mother Nature’s fury aren’t as easy to pull off, or at least not as easy…
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. Now…