Roland Emmerich should be called Hollywood’s Disaster King. In the 1990s, he gave us Independence Day. In the 2000s, he laid down The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. In the 2010s, he gifted us with Independence Day: Resurgence. Now that it’s a new decade, Emmerich officially stamps the 2020s with his latest disaster epic Moonfall, …
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Music Break: Independence Day (1996) patriotic score by David Arnold
Happy Fourth of July, everyone!! Hope you're all enjoying your weekend, wherever you are. I went up north for a couple of days for a quick weekend getaway and went kayaking around Apostle Islands near Bayfield, WI. On the drive back we listened to the Art of the Score, one of my favorite music podcasts …
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FlixChatter Review – MIDWAY (2019)
Directed by: Roland Emmerich Written by: Wes Tooke Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 has inspired many films over the years, most of which center around fictional characters and cheesy love stories. The 1976 Midway is no exception so it was with guarded anticipation I awaited the release of Roland Emmerich's Midway. …
New Releases Double Reviews: World War Z & White House Down
WORLD WAR Z Based on a popular novel by Max Brooks, this big budgeted film was plagued with troubled production and ran well over its original budget, reportedly somewhere around $170-200 mil (the original budget was set around $150 mil). The film was scheduled to open last December but because of rewrites and reshoots of …
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The Flix List: 80s & 90s action flicks that are so bad they’re good
Well, just yesterday SONY announced the Roland Emmerich's version of the White House action flick, currently titled White House Down, from November 2 to June 28, 2013. Now, instead of the Snow White movie battles we saw this year, it's battles on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Of course you already know I'd rather watch Olympus Has …
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