Paul Gallico was on board the RMS "Queen Mary" when it almost capsized in 1937. The haunting experience shaped his ...

A genre surpassed by its parodies, the star-studded, special-effectsy, formulaic wrecktaculars known as 1970s "disaster movies" are appreciated today primarily as camp. Stage a film festival of such ...

For this reason, one of the better New Year’s Eve watches will always be Irwin Allen’s 1972 chestnut The Poseidon Adventure ...

The updated version of The Poseidon Adventure is to receive its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Poseidon, directed by Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, The Perfect Storm), has a star cast ...

These films center on survival and the struggles of passengers facing catastrophic events aboard a sea vessel. The consistent theme is antagonists, whether nature, adversaries, or internal tensions, ...

Wolfgang Petersen’s big-budget remake of “The Poseidon Adventure” — one of Warner Bros.’ major tentpoles for summer 2006 — is getting some competition from an unexpected source: NBC. In an unusual ...

These films center on survival and the struggles of passengers facing catastrophic events aboard a sea vessel. The consistent theme is antagonists, whether nature, adversaries, or internal tensions, ...

Now, he’s back on the open seas — this time literally — with Black Demon, a killer-shark movie that plays with Jaws-style horror as much as it does the thrill of Poseidon. But that isn’t where the ...