IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. As a geologist (Kristoffer Joner) is preparing to leave his job in the Norwegian mountains, he discovers worrying signs of an impending disaster… The movie that brought the director to Hollywood is an old-fashioned disaster flick inspired by earlier, real-life events where enormous landslides in Norway caused … Continue reading The Wave
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT. Former FBI agent Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) is hired to assess security for the world’s tallest skyscraper, The Pearl in Hong Kong… but a terrorist has his eyes set on the building. A huge American star and Chinese locations – big audiences in both markets were guaranteed. This 3D cross … Continue reading Skyscraper
WE NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN TO US. Sweden finds itself under attack from a foreign power; Alex (Christoffer Nordenrot) tries to make his way back to the place where he grew up, but his father (Jesper Barkselius) is already preparing for the worst. The first feature film to come out of the filmmaking collective … Continue reading The Unthinkable
MAKE AMERICA BAIT AGAIN! While visiting London, Fin and April (Ian Ziering, Tara Reid) are drawn into a struggle to save the world from sharknados breaking out everywhere – and their son is stuck inside one of them! Alright, it does have Fabio as the Pope. There’s also Margaret Cho yelling ”Eat me!” at a … Continue reading Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
BRAVE THE STORM. In the near future, a system of satellites controls the global climate; after several serious, catastrophic accidents, the system’s creator (Gerard Butler) is sent to the space station to investigate. A 3D throwback to the disaster movies of the 1990s, directed by one of the men behind Independence Day (1996), but the … Continue reading Geostorm
WE ALL LIVE OR WE ALL DIE. In 1952, Bernard Webber (Chris Pine) is one of the Coast Guard crewmen heading out into a nor’easter to save the crew of an oil tanker that’s been cut in half by the storm. A reality-based disaster movie in the same vein as The Perfect Storm (2000), which … Continue reading The Finest Hours
WHEN FACED WITH OUR DARKEST HOUR, HOPE IS NOT A TACTIC. In 2010, Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) and his crew end up fighting for their lives when an explosion blows through the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. Based on a New York Times article that chronicled the oil rig’s final … Continue reading Deepwater Horizon
Five years after the events in the last film, new technology uses radio waves to defuse tornados, but Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) learns during a visit to Las Vegas that it’s no guarantee against sharknados. This third sequel looks and feels like something that would come years after a phenomenon ended. Jumps from city to … Continue reading Sharknado: The Fourth Awakens
NOTHING ON EARTH COULD COME BETWEEN THEM. Twentieth Century Fox wasn’t sure about letting James Cameron make an epic movie about the 1912 sinking of Titanic – especially since the director wanted it to be a romance. In other words, there would be no box-office-friendly terminators or aliens on this voyage. Fox eventually agreed to … Continue reading Titanic: A Wreck Comes Alive
48 HOURS OF TERRIFIC SUSPENSE AS NATURE GOES ON A RELENTLESS RAMPAGE OF DESTRUCTION! At the same time as Father Doonan (Spencer Tracy) is being relieved of duty as head of the church at a Pacific island, and three convicts make a stop there, the island’s volcano is about to erupt. It’s been seen as … Continue reading The Devil at 4 O’Clock
WHERE WILL YOU BE? WHO WILL YOU BE WITH? When a series of devastating earthquakes hits California, LAFD rescue pilot Ray Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) team up with his ex-wife (Carla Gugino) to track down their daughter (Alexandra Daddario) in San Francisco. The star and the director of Journey 2 (2012) reunited for another boisterous 3D … Continue reading San Andreas
THERE IS NO CALM BEFORE THE STORM. A major storm is headed for the small town of Silverton, Oklahoma, and a local high-school vice principal (Richard Armitage) and his teen sons end up in the middle of it, along with veteran storm chasers. Twister (1996) had cool tornado effects, engaging characters and knew how to build … Continue reading Into the Storm
BEWARE THE FORCE OF NATURE… AND THE NATURE OF MAN. When a huge tsunami strikes the U.S. east coast, scientist John McAdams (Angus Macfadyen) realizes that it was man-made and his earlier research might have had a hand in it… This miniseries is a pointless remake and expansion of a TV movie, Tidal Wave: No … Continue reading Killer Wave
