The '70s disaster-movie canon kicked off proper with The Poseidon Adventure—the first and certainly the best, in spite of a piss-poor sequel, innumerable Shelley Winters parodies and Wolfgang Petersen's equally starry yet wholly unnecessary upcoming remake. We've got old Wolfie's redux to thank, however, for a spate of classic disaster movies being rereleased this week: Universal's kicking out a new disc of inferior Heston-starrer Earthquake, while Fox special-editions the original Poseidon as well as 1974's all-star Irwin Allen scorcher The Towering Inferno—itself probably impending fodder for a remake should the Petersen film do well, which is all the more reason to... More >>>