Geostorm
The new movie Geostorm is an excellent way to save you some time. Say you want to see a big dumb disaster movie, a political conspiracy movie, and a space-based sci-fi film and you just don’t have the time for … Continue reading
The new movie Geostorm is an excellent way to save you some time. Say you want to see a big dumb disaster movie, a political conspiracy movie, and a space-based sci-fi film and you just don’t have the time for … Continue reading
Checked out a Thursday showing of the new disaster movie Deepwater Horizon starring Mark Whalberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, and evil John Malkovich. This is the story of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in 2010, killing a number … Continue reading
The Wave is a new Norwegian disaster movie that I caught on streaming video tonight. Story-wise, this is a pretty by-the-numbers disaster movie – lone geologist knows there’s a problem but nobody believes him and they can’t alert the town … Continue reading
Checked out the new Coast Guard rescue film The Finest Hours starring Chris Pine, Kasey Affleck, and a well-cast Holliday Granger (who didn’t have much to do in the movie besides be the worried gal-on-land-waiting-for-her-sailor-to-come-home but what she does, she … Continue reading
So San Andreas is a disaster film. It doesn’t try to be much else and, in it’s lack of ambition, is just a forgettable generic disaster film with laughably generic and cliched dialog (the kind where I was weirdly able … Continue reading
When to see Noah, the biblical disaster movie about a homicidal, genocidal guy who builds an ark with the help of Transformers, defends it from an evil army of evil evil guys, and then gets depressed and hammered. Transformers? Yes, … Continue reading
So someone got the chocolate of Gladiator in my peanut butter of Titanic and out spilled Pompeii… a disaster flick with gladiators, a rich girl who falls in love with a poor boy (ok, a slave/gladiator) while her unwanted rich … Continue reading
Saw the new movie Gravity, the new Sandra Bullock / George Clooney disaster/survival in space movie and it’s fantastic. Best movie of the year (so far). Unbelievable shots and FX mix with great acting, terrifying and thrilling moments all based … Continue reading
Saw The Impossible – the apparently true story of a family on vacation when the 2004 tsunami hit – and how they survived and the human spirit and courage was exalted and such. Very good movie – very scary movie … Continue reading
Knowing stars Nicolas Cage as a guy who discovers a series of > numbers that foretell disasters and how he has to deal with this knowledge. It’s directed by Alex Proyas – the guy behind Dark City and I, Robot. … Continue reading