Back in the late seventies/early eighties, the loveable, opportunistic movie studio known as Cannon would apparently just have a stack of scripts for creaky thrillers
Tag: Disaster Movie
The Lost Bus (2025) – Review
Once upon a time, disaster movies were lavish affairs that saw an all-star cast either fighting or running from some unimaginable act of destructive carnage,
Unstoppable (2010) – Review
From the gothic/new romantic/vampire trappings of The Hunger to the overblown Americana of Top Gun, Tony Scott never really did things by half, but I
Last Breath (2025) – Review
There are a handful of potentially lethal jobs out there that require nerves of purest iron to negotiate, but just narrowly edging out bomb diffusing
The Concorde… Airport ’79 (1979) – Review
As something of a forgotten staple of the disaster film, the Airport franchise went out of its way for a decade to disprove the fact
Airport ’77 (1977) – Review
Flying may be the safest way to travel statistically speaking, but the Airport franchise pretty much did everything it could to disprove that theory over
Airport 1975 (1974) – Review
Even before the team of Zucker Abrahams Zucker took down the entirety of a genre with a single movie with Airplane!, there was always something
Airport (1970) – Review
While The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are rightly considered the mack daddies of the disaster movie genre, essentially creating the building blocks of
Vertical Limit (2000) – Review
Martin Campbell has something of an impressive record when it comes to bringing back faded actioners to their former glories. After all, not only did
Twisters (2024) – Review
Ok, before we take this movie for a spin, can I take a quick poll? Was there actually a call for a legacy sequel to
Dante’s Peak (1997) – Review
In hindsight it all becomes staggeringly obvious. Of course you’d send a James Bond actor to tackle a monstrous volcano – after all, don’t most
No Way Up (2024) – Review
Low budget killer shark movies seem to descend onto streaming services these days with the swarming ferocity of a feeding frenzy as each cash-strapped title
The Towering Inferno (1974) – Review
In the world of disaster movies, where meteorites fall, cities crumble and luxury ocean liners roll over easier than a puppy wanting its belly scratched,
Earthquake (1974) – Review
The very second the that ill-fated cruise liner did half a barrel roll in The Poseidon Adventure, the race was on to copy and paste
Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) – Review
You’d think that having a disparate group of survivors fight to escape the upside-down hellscape of an upturned ocean liner would be drama enough, but
Titanic (1996) – Review
After legendary stories of ballooning costs, technical issues and the fact that someone spiked the catering with LSD, movie pundits back in 1997 famously predicted
Mars Attacks! (1996) – Review
Sometimes satire ages like wine, waiting patiently for our tastes and perceptions to catch up so we’ll eventually savour its matured taste. Mature is hardly
Pompeii (2014) – Review
I guess we can’t blame Paul W.S. Anderson for wanting to multitask; after all this is a man who once thought it was a good
The Core (2003) – Review
Listen, if you were to line up all the distaster movies made in the wake of their resurgence in the 90’s and cast an objective
Moonfall (2022) – Review
When news of the latest kaboom-fest from Roland Emmerich was due to land, I genuinely had mixed emotions. Emmerich had been semi-regularly bombarding our multiplexes
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