The long-running partnership of director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin practically invented its own sub-genre of wildly destructive, crowd-pleasing, and terribly written global disaster movies. After making the likes of Independence Day, Stargate, and Godzilla, that partnership split. Emmerich continued to hone … Continue reading REVIEW: Geostorm (2017)
Timeline, a Richard Donner film adapted from the Michael Crichton novel, was a critical and commercial failure upon release. I have never been entirely certain as to why. Certainly the film is no masterpiece but it tells a reasonably smart … Continue reading REVIEW: Timeline (2003)
Ric Roman Waugh’s Greenland emerges as 2021’s first major surprise: yet another large-scale disaster movie, it leaps head-and-shoulders above its genre to become the strongest film of its type since Michael Bay’s Armageddon back in 1998. On the same day that it becomes … Continue reading REVIEW: Greenland (2020)
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