by aditya | Oct 29, 2019 | Archive
Now we get to the 21st century, with a movie from just four years ago. You know I’m a wrestling fan but I’m not some Rock “mark”, as the industry would put it, who likes any film of his. I actually hated Skyscraper, as there was no dramatic tension (the only...
by aditya | Oct 29, 2019 | Archive
I just alluded to the 70s being the first golden age of disaster movies in Hollywood. The 90s were the second and most recent. The biggest movie from the genre during that time period was Twister but I didn’t like it when I watched it years ago. To be fair, a VHS copy...
by aditya | Oct 28, 2019 | Archive
Now we get to the good stuff. The 70s were the first golden age for disaster movies in Hollywood and I’d always wanted to watch the two most famous such films from that era: Earthquake and The Towering Inferno. Earthquake turned out to have been critically panned (in...
by aditya | Oct 28, 2019 | Archive
This has been a long time coming. I was hoping to have it done prior to the last month’s Emmys where Chernobyl did outstanding. However, as of this writing, the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver did make a couple of references to the titular...
by aditya | Oct 28, 2019 | Archive
To try and fill out the gap, I worked hard to find SOMETHING from the ‘50s. I found out about this film and, given that the notoriously bad Hercules in New York was supposed to be a parody of the Greek strongman films like this (but was referred to by this video guide...
by aditya | Oct 22, 2019 | Archive
When my friend Saurabh I’ve mentioned and I got to watch the unrestored version of this film (in other words, exactly what audiences saw in 1968) at an Arclight last year it was such an utter joy watching one of my favorite movies of all time in a theater. As many...
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