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Disaster Movies

April 27, 2020 by Jessica Berger and Tekela Fisher 1 Comment

Continuing on with our Quarantine activities, this week we bring you Disaster Movies! From zombies to natural disasters, and engineering failures to viruses, we have you covered on this list. While there is a good amount of movies on here to simply entertain you while you kill a couple hours, there are also some tearjerkers, comedies, and critically acclaimed movies. In no particular order, here are some of our favorites!

Zombie Movies

28 Days Later

Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

Streaming on Hulu

Train to Busan

While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

Streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime

Shaun of the Dead

A man’s uneventful life is disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.

Streaming on Hulu or Starz

Zombieland

A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.

Streaming on Hulu and Amazon Prime

Little Monsters

A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.

Streaming on Hulu


Natural Disaster Movies

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

Streaming on Hulu and Starz

Armageddon

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.

Streaming on Hulu and HBO

Day After Tomorrow

Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

Streaming on Hulu and HBO

Twister

Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.

Rent on Amazon Prime

The Impossible

The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Streaming on Hulu or Showtime


Engineering Disaster Movies

Titanic

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Available to rent on Amazon

Deepwater Horizon

A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.

Available to rent on Amazon

Finest Hours

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

Streaming on Disney+ to rent on Amazon

Towering Inferno

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Streaming on Hulu or Cinemax

Airplane!

A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.

Streaming on Tubi


Viral Disaster Movies

Outbreak

Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.

Streaming on Netflix

Contagion

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.

Streaming on Hulu or Cinemax

Blindness

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

Streaming on Hulu or Cinemax

Flu

Chaos ensues when a lethal, airborne virus infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers from Seoul.

Streaming on Amazon Prime

12 Monkeys

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

Streaming on Showtime, or to rent on Amazon


Hopefully you enjoy some of the movies on this list! We will be back next week with another great list to help you stay entertained at home. If you have something specific you’d like us to cover let us know! You can also check out all the other lists we have do so far Here. Have a great day!

Board Games

April 20, 2020 by Jessica Berger and Tekela Fisher 2 Comments

Social distancing doesn’t have to be boring, and it also doesn’t have to involve only screen time! Board games are a fantastic way to while away a few enjoyable hours with your family or friends and can be done in person with your household or over the internet. Board gaming has become a pretty prominent hobby in recent years, so go ahead and pitch your battered copy of Monopoly and pick up one of these (much more interesting) gems.

Family Fun

Dixit

A beautifully illustrated guessing game, similar to Apples to Apples but with surreal dream-like imagery.

Kingdomino

Draft domino-style tiles of different landscapes to build the most well-planned and valuable kingdom.

The Grimm Forest

Compete to build 3 houses of straw, wood, or brick with the help of your favorite fairy tale friends. Get it here.

Gizmos

Build gizmos and gadgets using energy marbles and building schematics. Layer the effects to be the science fair winner!

Good for Two

Code Names Duet

Try and get your partner to guess a variety of cards with a single word for a clue. Be careful to avoid the assassins!

Multiuniversum

Who can use the scientific tools at their disposal to close the most portals before aliens from a slew of weird dimensions take over the planet?!?!

7 Wonders Duel

Build the best civilization by carefully developing your science, military, culture, and commerce.

Cooperative Games

Unlock! Adventures

Basically an escape room in a box, you have an hour to solve a bunch of fun puzzles within different narrative themes. Rated 1-3 padlocks for difficulty.

Mysterium

Mysterium is like Clue, if Clue had psychics who were receiving surreal dream image communications from the ghost of the muder victim.

Forbidden Island

Try to reclaim the sacred treasures from a beautiful and mysterious island before the whole thing sinks into the ocean with you along for the ride.

Over the Interweb

Jackbox

Jackbox has a ton of different party packs with different styles of games. You all connect to one party room and then use your own mobile device to participate. Check it out here.

Just One

Help the guesser figure out a secret word by writing just one related word for them to see. Don’t be too obvious though, as any overlaps are erased!

Tabletopia

Play hundreds of different board games with friends using this very cool tabletop board game simulator on Steam. Check it out here.

There are so so so many amazing board games out there right now, and these are just a few. We definitely recommend that you support your local game store or the developers of these games directly when purchasing. A few of my favorite Portland game shops that are doing curbside pick-up right now are Guardian Games and Rainy Day Games, and you can order many of these great games from Powell’s as well!

Did we miss your favorite board game? Let us know in the comments!

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