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Popcorn Culture - Supercut: Disaster Movies

Michael Cheang, Pop Culture Writer, The Star

10-Feb-22 19:30

Popcorn Culture - Supercut: Disaster Movies

There's just something about watching monuments and skyscrapers fall, and forests and cities burn.... at least on-screen, or at least so the box office would suggest. But what is actually so appealing when it comes to disaster movies? What makes them tick? In this episode of Supercut, we get into it.

Produced by: Arvindh Yuvaraj, Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan


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Tags:  disaster films,  the road,  popcorn culture,  evening edition,  supercut,  independence day,  interstellar,  armageddon,  contagion, 


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