Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a Danish film about a passing comet causing chaos and ...

Quickly swapping her Prada heels for frightened glances and an alien invasion in Disclosure Day , Emily Blunt may be confronting a sci-fi benchmark she quietly set years ago.