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Dante’s Peak **** (1997, Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Jamie Renée Smith) – Classic Movie Review 11,065

Pierce Brosnan takes time out from playing James Bond and finds good work as a vulcanologist called Dr Harry Dalton, who arrives at the ‘most desirable’ fictional American countryside town of Dante’s Peak only to […]

Mar, 31

The Crowded Sky ** (1960, Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, John Kerr, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Troy Donahue) – Classic Movie Review 10,574

‘The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s efficient 1960 melodrama The Crowded Sky is a busy all-star disaster movie, which is quite fun as hokum. […]

Nov, 21

When Time Ran Out… (1980, Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 9800

Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine head an extraordinary cast all at a loss in director James Goldstone’s rotten 1980 disaster movie When Time Ran Out… about a volcano erupting on a […]

May, 21

Meteor ** (1979, Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 9750

Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]

May, 11

The Captain [Zhong guo ji zhang] *** (2019, Hanyu Zhang, Hao Ou, Jiang Du) – Movie Review

Director Andrew Lau’s excellent, well-staged 2019 Chinese blockbuster real-life disaster movie The Captain [Zhong guo ji zhang] is based on a terrifying incident in May 2018 when a Sichuan Airlines flight cockpit’s windshield cracked and […]

Oct, 17

Skyjacked *** (1972, Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Walter Pidgeon, Susan Dey) – Classic Movie Review 8241

Director John Guillermin bids you welcome to captain Charlton Heston’s Boeing 707 supposedly bound for Minneapolis but unfortunately for the passengers it is hijacked by a crazed Vietnam vet bomber, who demands to be taken […]

Mar, 13

Five Came Back **** (1939, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 7845

Director John Farrow’s admired 1939 adventure melodrama Five Came Back stars Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins and C Aubrey Smith, and is suspenseful and entertaining. Based on the story by […]

Nov, 27

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