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...
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
Hard Rain (1997)
5.8/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid
This routine, effects-soaked thriller about a bank heist complicated by massive flooding (the aborted pre-release title was 'The Flood') stars Christi... Read more
Us (Blu-Ray) (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
Volcano (1997)
5.4/10
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Keith David
Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano pushes to the surface, raining a... 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
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
The Swarm (1978)
4.4/10
Director: Irwin Allen
Starring: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de H...
This cliche-ridden effort is about an unstoppable swarm of killer bees invading the USA from South America and stinging all and sundry. The talented a... 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
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
The Day After Tomorrow ( Blu-ray ) (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