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...
Alive (1993)
7.1/10
Director: Frank Marshall
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton
Stirring true-life adventure saga about the horrific 1972 plane crash in the Andes Mountains where, after struggling against the elements and on the v... Read more
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
6.4/10
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: B D Wong, Geraldine Chaplin, James Cromwell, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Jason, Ted Lev...
Three years after the destruction of the Jurassic World theme park, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing return to the island of Isla Nublar to save the rema... Read more
2012 ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Danny Glover, John Cusack, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson, Amanda...
Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich ("The Day After Tomorrow") crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following the prophecy stated by the ancient M... Read more
Titanic ( Blu-ray ) (1997)
7.8/10
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Bernard Hill, Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, David Warner, Frances Fisher, Kate Winsle...
Director James Cameron's epic blockbuster, at the time the most expensive movie ever, won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and... Read more
Into Thin Air: Death On Everest (1997)
5.7/10
Director: Robert Markowitz
Starring: Peter Horton, Nat Parker, Richard Jenkins
In May 1996, Writer John Krakauer joined a party of experienced and amateur climbers - led by Everest veterans, American Scott Fisher and New Zealande... 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
Us (2019)
7.1/10
Director: Jordan Peele
Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heideck...
Accompanied by her husband, son and daughter, Adelaide Wilson returns to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic expe... Read more
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
7.1/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Gene Hackman, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters, Car...
A massive ocean liner is at sea on New Year's Eve when just after midnight a freak wave smacks into her side, flipping her upside down in the freezing... Read more
White Squall (1996)
6.6/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, Scott Wolf
In 1960, thirteen young men were admitted as students in the Ocean Academy to study while spending a year at sea as a crew of the brigantine 'Albatros... Read more
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