Disaster

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Review: The Wandering Earth seeks to save the planet but rings hollow

Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 31st May 2019

Think of the most outlandish thing you can think of. Now imagine it bigger. No, bigger than that. Think the Wright Brothers diving into the Trench Run. Bigger. Think Nikola Tesla wielding Mjolnir in a duel with Edison. Bigger! Elon Musk smoking weed on Mars in a mech. Bigger still, dammit! Ok, now take whatever mental image you've arrived at and multiply it by ten, then run into a wall to give yourself a concussion. Congratulations you are now somewhere close to the wild, inspirational, childish ambition of The Wandering Earth.

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Oh, hi Mark! How does James Franco sync up with Tommy Wiseau?

Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 19th July 2017

Hmm, it's not perfect. Gah, YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, JAMES FRANCO!

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San Andreas

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 27th May 2015

The modern disaster movie is at an impasse, and no amount of hurling Dwayne Johnson at it will succeed. There isn't a disaster you can think of - whether it's from the pit of the Earth or the darkest realms of outer space - that can't be rendered by a room-full of under-fed, under-paid GFX nerds in California. The only limit, therefore, is imagination, and sadly, San Andreas is a movie that's barely capable of coherent or rational thought. Director Brad Peyton borrows a series of second-hand set-pieces from the Roland Emmerich playbook; with buildings collapsing left, right and centre, San Andreas doesn't so much evoke powerful 9/11 imagery as it recalls entire sequences from other, better movies.

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Pompeii

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 23rd April 2014

"But every Paul WS Anderson movie is a disaster movie!" I hear you cry. How very droll. Pompeii is indeed the first movie by director Anderson that's supposed to be a catastrophe - a further step away from sci-fi trash towards period drama following 2011's re-stab at The Three Musketeers. Titanic is the obvious template (love across a class divide against a backdrop of massive loss of human life), but Pompeii has more in common with your BBC1 Saturday afternoon adventure mini-series: it's a curiously bloodless affair, with pretty faces, mild peril, swords, sandals and really rather fetching costumes. Look at that image above and tell me you can't imagine the continuity guy announcing that the next thrilling episode of Pompeii is coming up after Final Score with Gabby and Garth. This is basically my way of telling you that it isn't very good.

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Sex And The City 2 postOH MY GOD

Movie News | Ali | 3rd May 2010

Get your first look at the new poster for Sex And The City 2: Dubai Or Not Dubai. Warning: once seen cannot be unseen.

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2012

Movie Review | Ali | 12th November 2009

Take a look at this week's release schedule: the distinctions between the choices couldn't be more clear. If I want to go and see a film, I'll go and see Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon. If I want to go and see a movie, I'll go and see Roland Emmerich's 2012.

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2012 to get miniseries sequel, 2013

Movie News | Ali | 6th November 2009

That's right, John. In what could perhaps be considered a major spoiler for a film about the end of the world, 2012 will live on in 2013, a televised miniseries about life after disaster. It's a disafter movie. But on TV.

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New 2012 clip will rock your world

Movie Trailer | Ali | 4th October 2009

Five minutes of 2012, you say? Right this way for front row seats to the end of the world. Warning: highly ludicrous.

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Awesome new 2012 posters

Movie News | Ali | 29th August 2009

Want to see shit get fucked up on a scale even bigger than Transformers 2? You've come to the right year, my friend.

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Watchmen

Movie Review | Ali | 26th February 2009

Dear Alan Moore, Hi. How are you? We hope Northampton is nice this time of year. I mean, obviously it's not, but unlike Zack Snyder, at least we're aware that it isn't in London. In fact, that Snyder fellow is the reason we're writing to you. We're sure you're aware his adaptation of your timeless graphic novel Watchmen is ab...

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