Sentences with phrase «disaster flick»

If you're looking for the gold standard of disaster flicks, look no further.

All I can say is the German director has traded in disaster flicks for straightforward drama and takes to it like a duck to water.

The 2007 Season, the most glorious disaster flick of all.

The film is bound by studio convention and thus operates much more simply, but intelligently, as a grim summer disaster flick.

This indie disaster flick isn't bad, but as you can see in my review here, it's missing that extra bit that would result in a recommendation on my part.

It was nothing more than a crappy disaster flick.

Definitely don't go see this if you want to avoid a depressing disaster flick.

Apparently grad students are to disaster flicks what Security people are to away - teams.

Dwayne Johnson is about to light up our screens in new disaster flick SAN ANDREAS, and in the very near future the former wrestler...

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

Thanks to USA Today, we've got a couple of new images from director Brad Peyton's (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) upcoming disaster flick San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson (Hercules) alongside Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines)... «After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot -LSB-...]

If you were afraid to swim in the ocean after watching Jaws, you might be just as reluctant to visit San Francisco after seeing this spectacular disaster flick.

During an early screening of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end of the film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).

Probably the only film in recent months that has been even a little bit consciously political was the environmental disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow.

Curious zeitgeist we find ourselves in, this mad desire to erase the past (and note a recent run of disaster flicks as well) and start anew.

A new international trailer has arrived online for San Andreas, the upcoming disaster flick which reteams Dwayne Johnson with his Journey 2: The Mysterious Island director Brad Peyton.

In the advertising for Brad Peyton «s natural disaster flick San Andreas, there's an unspoken promise.

Actor Dwayne Johnson returns to the big screen with the newest disaster flick San Andreas, a film that will no doubt continue Johnson's string of high budget, low payoff films that have plagued his career Read More →

Also on the menu at MoMA is the restoration of Deluge, a spectacular RKO disaster flick from 1933, directed by Felix E. Feist and at one point believed to be lost.

The reality, however, is that this is still nothing more than a big - budget Hollywood studio disaster flick about gargantuan genetically mutated animals destroying Chicago, and trying to say the picture is more than that would just be a waste of breath.

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

They were cheapies, by and large, although with The Swarm director Irwin Allen tried to pull off the same broad settings and large aging - star cast he'd managed in his previous disaster flicks.

It's the end of the world, and we feel tipsy — this week on Alcohollywood, we watch the Roland Emmerich disaster flick 2012 and figure out just how worried we should be about the coming Mayan apocalypse (Hint: not at all).

The new movie Dante's Peak displays all the elements of the classic Hollywood disaster flick, circa 1975 Irwin Allen (with stomach - turning dialogue to match).

Four years after his last effort - 2000's The Patriot - director Roland Emmerich returns with a big - budget disaster flick.

Check it out if you want to see a CGI sword - and - sandal disaster flick, but perhaps skip it if you bemoan any scientific inaccuracies whatsoever in modern cinema.

Featuring an all - star cast (Paul Newman, Steve McQueen), the movie delivers the goods of a well - crafted disaster flick, but strangely, it was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

Overwought and thinly sketched disaster flick but buoyed by a cast that delivers better than decent performances.

Disaster flick crosscutting reveals that — what are the odds?

The Rock (Dwayne Johnson, Furious Seven, 2015) is on a roll and makes big moves in the 3 - D disaster flick, San Andreas.

Because it's Disney, and because of heavy promotion, people will flock to see this by - the - numbers disaster flick.

Entertainingly laughable 70s disaster flick full of hysterical women and gruff manly men trying to escape a capsized ship.

Sci - fi sequel Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, last week's top film, slipped to third place in its second week of release with $ 14m, for a total of $ 51.6 m. Disaster flick Everest opened in wide release at fourth place with $ 13m.

«Pompeii»: This Carrie - Ann Moss and Kit Harington disaster flick about ancient Rome feels like ancient history, but it actually hit theaters in Feb. 2014.

When: August 8th Why: It's been nearly 20 years since «Twister» was released in theaters and it still looks better than this CG - fueled disaster flick, which doesn't appear to be particularly interested in its human characters at all.

The Paramount motion picture, «Hercules» and the 2015 Warner Bros. disaster flick, San Andreas.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Disaster Flick Revisits Coast Guard 1952 Rescue off Cape Cod On February 18, 1952, one of the worst nor'easter s in history hit New England.

San Andreas: Jaskee: It's safe to say that you should be getting prepared for a loud, action packed disaster flick that will when you go see San Andreas.

The ten original numbers were composed by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, a team that had recently won Oscars for their collaborations on Irwin Allen disaster flicks The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.

It's just that, despite being based on fact, at times, the movie feels and plays like a formulaic disaster flick, with Banderas as the dynamic hero archetype.

That's because his performance helps elevate a film that is part transport disaster flick, part courtroom procedural - as the crash is investigated by sceptical authorities challenging the decision not to head to a nearby airport - into something better than the sum of its parts.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

An inconsistent but mostly interesting disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow demonstrates the usual strengths and weaknesses seen in the films of Roland Emmerich.

Baltasar Kormákur's EVEREST occupies a strange middle ground between insightful character study and over-the-top disaster flick, never quite succeeding at either.

Two decades after the 1996 alien disaster flick, «Independence Day: Resurgence» faces an ever bigger threat at hand - Pixar.

That's certainly the most powerful impression left by Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow, though not the only one, since this stolid disaster flick also comes saddled with an election year political message about the current administration's supposedly reckless mishandling of the environment.