Why are audiences so fascinated with mass destruction on the big screen? While we never want to experience world-ending threats, city-wide destruction, and natural catastrophes in reality, that ...

SOMETIMES we feel as if we’ve seen it all. L.A. has been attacked by aliens and zombies in the movies but none of that compares to the real-life destruction we saw in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

In 1996, Roland Emmerich redefined the summer blockbuster with Independence Day, which cemented the German filmmaker as Hollywood's landmark-destroying resident master of disaster. The now-iconic ...

A powerful explosion in the restaurant area of Plaza Altabrisa mall in Villahermosa, Tabasco, triggered a fire and forced a full evacuation. Firefighters battle a scene of destruction as smoke and ...