Unstoppable
After Randy from My Name Is Earl (Ethan Suplee) loses control of an unmanned freight train full of toxic chemicals, it is up to veteran railroad engineer Frank (Denzel Washington) […]
Tag Archives: disaster
The Day After Tomorrow
Donald Trump enthusiast Dennis Quaid stars in this 2004 climate change disaster movie they should have called Cloudy with a Chance of Meatheads. In hindsight it is ironic that Quaid […]
Moonfall
Not a sequel to Skyfall, Moonfall is a Roland Emmerich flick about NASA rejects stopping the moon from colliding with Earth after discovering it is made of cheese. Only joking! […]
Twisters
The Hollywood remake machine picks up and spits out Twister, the twist being that this time a woman (Daisy Edgar-Jones) gets to be the weather whisperer. Not really disaster movies […]
Twister
Ahead of the new Twister reboot, we revisit the 1996 disaster movie about a woman (Helen Hunt) left understandably traumatised after watching her dad get sucked off in a tornado. […]
Skyscraper
More a one-man movie industry than an actor, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has wrestled the disaster flick from Roland Emmerich’s clammy hands. Barely has the dust settled on his last […]
Pompeii
We continue our masochistic foray into the world of Paul W. S. Anderson with Pompeii, his 2014 action spectacular that can best be described as a malodorous eruption. More disaster than movie, […]
Godzilla (1998)
1998 was not a great year for films. Top at the box office was Armageddon, a film so bad Michael Bay apologised for it. Elsewhere in the top ten are […]
Geostorm
It was announced today that Cabinet minister Michael Fallon would be replaced by former whip Gavin Williamson, a man best known for using a pet tarantula called Cronus to intimidate MPs […]
Armageddon
Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler star in 1998’s Armageddon, as in “Armageddon a massive headache.” This disaster (of a) movie opens with an explanation of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, delivered […]
