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Disaster Flicks

Ever have one of those days? Well chances are it never got as bad as it did for these people. Dodging meteors, tornados, floods, earthquakes, molten lava, deadly viruses and killer bees. Peaking in the 70s with the Irwin Allen school of filmmaking ("The Poseidon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno", "The Swarm", "When Time Ran Out...", "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"), the disaster movie still rears its head from time to time and made something of a strong comeback in the mid-90s ("Dante's Peak", "Volcano", "Daylight", "Twister", "Armageddon", "Deep Impact" and so on). Head for the hills...

Life of Pi ( Blu-ray ) (2012)

7.9/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Rafe Spall, Tabu , Irrfan Khan, Suraj Sharma, Adil Hussain

Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, director Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi' is a visually stunning adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the prec... Read more

Life of Pi ( Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D ) (2012)

7.9/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Rafe Spall, Tabu , Irrfan Khan, Suraj Sharma, Adil Hussain

Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, director Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi' is a visually stunning adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the prec... Read more

Meteor (1979)

5/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Henry Fonda, Martin Landau

A five mile wide meteor races towards Earth, as the world's governments race against time and each other's suspicions to find a way to avert planetary... Read more

Outbreak (1995)

6.6/10
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Patrick Dempsey, Do...

Dustin Hoffman is an Army medical expert who discovers that the virus that destroyed a small California town is the same one he found earlier in Afric... Read more

Pompeii (2014)

5.5/10
Director: Paul W S Anderson
Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinn...

Set in 79 A.D., "Pompeii" tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time t... Read more

Poseidon (2006)

5.6/10
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Jimmy Bennett, Mia...

"The Perfect Storm" Director Wolfgang Petersen rides an even bigger wave with this intense revamping of the '70s disaster epic. When a 150-foot-high r... Read more

Rampage (2018)

6.2/10
Director: Brad Peyton
Starring: Marley Shelton, Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerma...

Primatologist Davis (Dwayne Johnson) shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who has been in his car... Read more

Rampage (Blu-Ray) (2018)

6.2/10
Director: Brad Peyton
Starring: Marley Shelton, Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerma...

Primatologist Davis (Dwayne Johnson) shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who has been in his car... Read more

Right at Your Door (2006)

6.2/10
Director: Chris Gorak
Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane, Tony Perez, Max Kasch, Jon Huertas

A tense and topical drama that sees L.A. reeling in the wake of a 'dirty bomb' that sends a toxic cloud throughout the city. The event becomes tragica... Read more

Sharknado (2013)

3.3/10
Director: Anthony C Ferrante
Starring: John Heard, Tara Reid, Jaason Simmons, Cassie Scerbo, Ian Ziering

When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace, and nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and... Read more