This striking disaster thriller is currently one of the most-streamed series on Netflix. Check out what fans are raving about here.

But images — and disaster movies and very special episodes — never prepare us for real devastation. There is no resolution at the end of the hour, no bittersweet song to play over a credit ...

Even though the actual event would make us very cross, we sure love movies about the end of the world. It lets us imagine ...

As the story progresses, it's clear the film is less concerned with being a disaster movie than it is making an eerie point about humanity's dumbfounded, helpless attitude toward impending disaster.

Rather than let the 50th anniversary of The Towering Inferno pass unnoticed, it’s time to share the reasons why it came to define the disaster genre ... And the movie doesn’t show much ...

The Towering Inferno takes the better part of an hour before the plot literally heats up, but the disaster was the prime attraction for this movie. People came to the theater to watch the building ...

A movie star also played a part in his heroism ... where he was awarded a Bravery Medal for his courageous act during the Tasman Bridge disaster. Picture: Supplied “He said he turned back ...