I've been an avid moviegoer all my life, and in the 2000s, much of my time was spent with my butt in the seat at some of the most iconic movie premieres. Case in point: M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs," ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...