Modern audiences may be put off by the fact that The Towering Inferno doesn’t jump right into the disaster ... tragic ends during the fire. And the movie doesn’t show much sympathy for ...

A reporter, an L.A. native, has watched movies and TV destroy her hometown for years, but nothing can prepare someone for ...

Over the years, few genres have brought moviegoers to theaters and packed auditoriums quite like the disaster film. For pretty much the entire existence of cinema, movies like Airport ...

Paul Barron, from Teesville, has lived in LA for 12 years and had to evacuate his home on foot with his partner and two cats.

Disaster movies used to be all the rage. Back in the 1990s, movie theaters were chock full of one disaster epic after another. Armageddon was a sensation, Independence Day remains an annual watch ...

In the 1970s, disaster movies were the superhero cinema of their day. In other words, these were the films that brought movie fans into theaters, which led to blockbusters like Earthquake ...

The Towering Inferno takes the better part of an hour before the plot literally heats up, but the disaster was the prime attraction for this movie. People came to the theater to watch the building ...