earthquake – New York Film Critics Circle

‘San Andreas’: Rumble. Tumble. Yawn.

Marshall Fine May 27, 2015 May 27, 2015 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com “San Andreas”? I thought we critics drove a stake through this film’s heart when it came out 40 years ago under the title “Earthquake.” But each generation of special effects creates its own avalanche of disaster films: movies about disasters that are themselves disastrous. The latest iteration of cutting-edge …

‘Aftershock,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine May 10, 2013 May 10, 2013 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com Having made his name with the kind of horror films that inspired the term “torture-porn,” producer-writer Eli Roth tries to show that there are other tricks up his sleeve with “Aftershock.” Think of it as a 1970s’ disaster movie, spiked with 21st-century horror effects. Irwin Allen meets Robert Rodriguez. …