It's the season, it would seem, of the disaster movie. Maybe it is to coincide with the release of Twister, from the producers of Jurassic Park and the director of Speed - a preview of which can be seen tonight, The Making Of Twister (Pearl, 11.25pm) - or perhaps it is to do with the inclement weather at this time of year, a preview of which you can see, as I write, through any window.
This week alone, we have Avalanche (Pearl, 9.30pm), Hurricane, and Fire And Rain, but you only have to flick through a film guide to see there's been a movie made about every potentially catastrophic environmental condition.
The genre was at its most popular in the 1970s. Sadly, viewed against this decade's special effects, most of those movies look like they were made on a kitchen table.
Avalanche may have been made in the 90s but that doesn't save it. The script is flimsy and the acting wooden.
A father and his two children struggle to escape certain death after an avalanche entombs them in their remote mountain cabin.
A plane crash higher up in the mountains caused the avalanche which sweeps a lone survivor up against one of the buried cabins' windows.
