For their 169th episode, two volcanic film critics, two ash-covered dads, and two pyroclastic school teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, welcome back film critic and “And The Winner Was…” podcast host Joel Winstead for his second consecutive guest spot. Turning back the clock to 1997, the trio dove into the hot lava that was the double feature of Dante's Peak and Volcano. Cheese melts as hot as magma!
Read MoreThe first-rate visual effects are what folks are paying to see, and they look sharp and incredible with a quarter-century’s advancements in digital capacity. Even greater, the audio mix is what really pins you back, nailing the personified growl and howl given to these fingers of God. Taken together, the swagger and bluster of Twisters returns us back to that sense of stamina and vigor for enduring all things windy. The exhilaration is there if you can take it.
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