
1313: Giant Killer Bees (2010)
Movie
A young college student inadvertently unleashes a global biological disaster in the form of giant,...
Bad movie horror bees

The Incredible Exploding Man
Book
When Alex Dolan is hired by multibillionaire Stanislaw Clayton to write a book about the Sioux...

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May 27, 2022

Rugby: The Art of Scrummaging: A History, a Manual and a Law Dissertation on the Rugby Scrum
Book
Rugby: The Art of Scrummaging is an authoritative work on scrummaging, covering every conceivable...

David McK (3557 KP) rated Moonfall (2022) in Movies
Aug 16, 2022
Arthur C Clarke, 'Rendezvous with Rama'
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Any number of Roland Emmerich's own disaster movies.
It might seem odd talking about all those, bit throw them in a blender and the result might be something like this!
I was expecting a traditional end of the world disaster movie - like 2012, say, or Deep Impact, or something along that vein - which the movie does start as, with the moon mysteriously knocked out of it orbit and hence causing all kinds of chaos on good old planet Earth. Roughly about 2/3rds of the way in, though, it completely changes tack, becoming more of a sci-fi spectacle than anything, and closer - perhaps - to one of Emmerich's own most successful films of the mid 90s ...

Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire
Book
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. On May 11 1985, fifty-six people...

Learning and Calamities: Practices, Interpretations, Patterns
Heike Egner, Maren Schorch and Martin Voss
Book
It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies,...
