Disaster Movie

We're running out of genres to spoof: This time it's disaster movies.

"...shame, a danger to our culture, a typhoon-sized natural disaster disguised as a filmmaking team, a Hollywood monster wreaking..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Don't Call Roland Emmerich the Master of Disaster

The director talks sneaking his epic sci fi past the studio

"...After Tomorrow. 2012. Roland Emmerich has become synonymous with disaster movies. Yet, even though his latest, Moonfall, sees yet..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Flirting With Disaster

"...that might even boggle Leo Tolstoy's mind, Flirting With Disaster is every son or daughter's nightmare… multiplied. Here, there..."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Disaster Artist

The making of one of the most inept films ever made

"...It’s called the Citizen Kane of bad movies. A WTF film experience like few others, the incomprehensible..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

AFF2012: Case Study: 'It’s a Disaster'

Todd Berger says some - but not too much! – about his doomsday rom-com

"...Berger, the less you know going into It’s a Disaster, the better. An air of mystery surrounded the panel..."

Oct. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Leah Churner

Unnatural Disaster

Harry Shearer gets serious about how bad engineering flooded Nola

"...to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster. If you ask New Orleanians, many blame the US..."

April 16, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sufjan Stevens’ Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant on Ice

Saturday night at Emo's East

"...sold-out “Surfjohn Stevens Christmas Sing-Along Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant on Ice featuring Sufjan Stevens” involved no ice,..."

Dec. 2, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

PAW Patrol: The Movie

Puppy power scampers to the big screen

"...reading now. There is nothing in PAW Patrol: The Movie for you whatsoever, none of the angst or over-the-heads-of-kids..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What Is This Miracle Called Movie Music?

Making movie-music magic 'Infamous'

"...if I could help with the music for a movie she'd just joined. Douglas McGrath was making a biopic..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Mark Rubin

On the Lege: A $156 Million Disaster

The Accenture scheme blows up in the state's face

"...up the whole Accenture deal as a "$156 million disaster" – referring to the amount the state has already..."

March 23, 2007 News Column

The Q&A Hole: Superhero Movie Redux

I knew that ol' Lazarus pit would come in handy one of these days …

"...the question was: Why Do We Need Anymore Superhero Movies?..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Movie Titles for 1996

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Jan. 10, 1997 Screens Feature

San Andreas

This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a guffaw

"...this newest entry in the perennial "California Gets It" disaster movie subgenre is a hoot. It’s also exactly what..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2012

Big. Dumb. Fun.

"...a scale never before seen, the characters in his disaster epics manage to reaffirm their broken loves, make amends..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twisters

Pale imitation of what made the original such an unexpected smash of a disaster movie

"...abuse of Javi (Ramos), the sole survivor of the disaster, she luckily runs into Tyler Owens (Powell), a YouTube..."

July 19, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Miss March

Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.

"...made it all the way to the end of Disaster Movie. And if you don’t think that’s an accomplishment..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Having a Plan for When Shit Hits the Fan: A Journey in Prepping

What disaster preparedness experts have to say about best-laid plans for worst-case scenarios

"...When we talk about preparedness, everyone has their own disaster movie that plays in their mind. What’s the scenario..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Speechless

"...perpetual thirtysomethings, having switched thematic course from his breakthrough disaster movie, Tremors. Keaton and Davis star as the rival..."

Dec. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Into the Storm

The tornado may be bad, but the movie is not.

"...Disaster movies over the last decade or so have evolved..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Fantastic Fest Review: The Quake

Sequel to The Wave goes insane with the tension

"...By the end of The Quake, sequel to Norwegian disaster marvel The Wave, geologist Kristian Eikjord would rightly be..."

Sept. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2015: The Wave

Norwegian disaster film is gripping and naturalistic

"...to guess which country might produce the next great disaster movie, you’d probably be guessing for a long time..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friends to the End (of the World)

Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler reunite in Greenland

"...to do something different to the big, tentpole action movie.” His then-manager slipped him the script to Greenland “and..."

Dec. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Super 8

This throwback to the monster movies of the Seventies evokes the early work of Steven Spielberg.

"...Alias, Lost, and Fringe). Super 8 is a monster movie that’s a throwback to the kind in which the..."

June 10, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

… And God Spoke (the making of …)

"...has not just been pulled but jerked from the movie, Jesus' birth has been shot in a cheap church..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Geostorm

It's not just a storm, it's a ...

"...falling.” I concur, to be sure, but this planet-in-peril disaster flick – and it is assuredly a flick in..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Impossible

The sound and fury of the Christmas tsunami is deeply harrowing as shown here through the microcosm of one family's experience.

"...The Impossible begins two days before the disaster, when a British family of five – Henry (McGregor),..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Sweet Hereafter

"...in British Columbia that has just experienced a gut-wrenching disaster in which 14 children perish and many others become..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Moonfall

Disaster flick + Dyson sphere = Roland Emmerich’s latest

"...a right and wrong way to make a bad movie. In the right hands, a bad movie – a..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Three Kings

This modern classic is a war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.

"...behave as an original outlaw or antihero in American movies these days. So it practically moves us to stand..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gods of Egypt

We already have a strong contender for the worst film of 2016

"...stories preserved centuries ago in funerary texts to mindless action-movie dynamics designed for attention spans taxed by anything with..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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