Tag: Disaster Movie

Deep Water (2026) – Review

It’s strangely heartening that Renny Harlin is having something of a resurgence of late – it’s just a shame that it’s not particularly a good

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Into The Storm (2014) – Review

While movies shot in the first person aren’t exactly everyone’s cup of tea, it’s still weird that it took until 2014’s Into The Storm to

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Only The Brave (2017) – Review

You ever feel like sometimes knowing too much about a movie messes up your experience of watching it? I’m not talking about plot leaks, spoilers

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The Ice Road (2021) – Review

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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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