In disaster movies, natural disasters, accidents, and terrorist actions provide the setting for daring escapes and incredible heroism. The films rely heavily on special effects to recreate on screen the violent consequences of earthquakes, plane...

A disaster film is a movie genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster (such as a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck or an asteroid collision) as its subject. These films typically feature large casts of well-known actors and multiple plotlines,...

Some films do master disaster By GEORGE M. THOMAS Knight Ridder Newspapers Tuesday, June 8, 2004 With "The Day After Tomorrow," director Roland Emmerich returns to the disaster film genre where he has enjoyed the most success. His "Independence Day" grossed...

ELIZABETH JENSEN, Los Angeles Times The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-30-2004 Riding the wave of a disaster film -- Environmentalists cite facts behind the fiction By ELIZABETH JENSEN, Los Angeles Times Date: 05-30-2004, Sunday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday The science...

As the architect Mies van der Rohe once famously observed, “God is in the details.” But thanks to a recent decision by the Motion Picture Association of America, it now appears that God is widening his focus and getting involved with movie ratings. No, this...

As the architect Mies van der Rohe once famously observed, “God is in the details.” But thanks to a recent decision by the Motion Picture Association of America, it now appears that God is widening his focus and getting involved with movie ratings. No,...