Browsing the archives for the disaster tag

New York Goes Down in Pixels

It is well documented here that I love a good disaster movie, especially one that rips up New York City. I caught this today and it’s now on the best of list along with Cloverfield, The Day After Tomorrow, I Am Legend and Escape from New York. Please enjoy this 8-bit terror from the TV. [...]

Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King

I admit, I haven’t read a Stephen King book in years. Novels like The Stand (both the original and the newer uncut edition) and It are among my favorite stories of all time. Right around Dolores Claiborne in 1994, however, I got burned out. When Under the Dome: A Novel came out last November, my [...]

2012

2012 satiated my disaster movie fix very nicely. Roland Emmerich has not always pulled that off successfully. The Day After Tomorrow was quite good, but Independence Day and Godzilla were both unsatisfying (with Godzilla being one of the worst movies I’ve ever sat through). With 2012 Emmerich destroyed the world, kept his characters from being [...]