Of all the cinematic trash I have a soft spot for, few genres are closer to my heart than the save-the-world disaster movie. Give me your Armageddons, your Day After Tomorrows, your Cores; I cherish them all. I suspect that’s because the genre is one that so readily lends itself to corniness; how can one be expected to tackle a premise as melodramatic as saving the world without, well, melodrama? Continue reading
You’d have to be naïve, stupid, or both to go into Geostorm expecting a good movie. But as I’ve written before, a bad movie isn’t necessarily an unenjoyable one, and I’m happy to say that Geostorm is a dreadful good time. Continue reading
San Andreas enjoyed an excellent opening weekend, and it’s easy to see why. The only wide-release movie it went up against was Aloha, a critical failure on its way to becoming a commercial one. Plus, San Andreas is one of the summer’s first big-scale, big-budget movies, a straightforward disaster flick with a likeable cast and visual spectacle in spades. The movie has no problem delivering on these fronts, but the story is shaky at best. Continue reading