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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...

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion (2003)

6.7/10
Director: Bruce Pittman
Starring: Vincent Walsh, Shauna Macdonald, Tamara Hope, Zachary Bennett, Ted Dykstra, Clar...

In 1917, a French freighter loaded with explosives collided with a Belgian reef ship in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia. Nearly 2000 lives were claimed i... Read more

Sinking of Japan (2006)

Director: Shinji Higuchi
Starring: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kou Shibasaki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Mao Daichi, Mitsuhiro Oikawa...

In the wake of a massive earthquake it is feared Japan will sink beneath the sea; estimates are it could happen within 40 years, but one scientist bel... Read more

Skyscraper (2018)

6/10
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring: Chin Han, Neve Campbell, Noah Taylor, Dwayne Johnson, Byron Mann, Roland Moller,...

Will Sawyer is a former FBI agent and U.S. war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers. While he's on assignment in China, the world's talle... Read more

Skyscraper (Blu-Ray) (2018)

6/10
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring: Chin Han, Neve Campbell, Noah Taylor, Dwayne Johnson, Byron Mann, Roland Moller,...

Will Sawyer is a former FBI agent and U.S. war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers. While he's on assignment in China, the world's talle... Read more

Terror Peak (2003)

4.6/10
Director: Dale G Bradley
Starring: Lynda Carter, Parker Stevenson, Emily Barclay, Antony Starr

Ever wanted to see TV's Wonder Woman battle a New Zealand volcano? Well, this film is as close as you'll get! The legendary Lynda Carter stars as an A... Read more

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

7.2/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid

A tense science-fiction thriller, this film focuses on a team of scientists attempting to isolate a deadly virus while racing against time and the pos... Read more

The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

6.4/10
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Starring: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O J Simpson, Lionel Stander, Ann Tur...

An all-star spectacular telling of a terrorist infected with a deadly virus who boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express exposing all aboard to the dise... Read more

The China Syndrome (1979)

7.4/10
Director: James Bridges
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas

The title infers a total atomic meltdown that would bore a hole through the Earth all the way to China. Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and Jack Lemmon st... Read more

The Core (2003)

5.5/10
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D J Qualls, Richard Je...

Academy Award winner Hilary Swank ("Boys Don't Cry") leads an all-star cast in this electrifying journey that puts you in the middle of the most spect... Read more

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

6.4/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum

From writer/director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day") comes this engaging man vs. nature thriller starring Dennis Quaid as a scientist whose predi... Read more