It's rarely felt quite as heavy as it did in 1998's other comet movie Deep Impact. It unfolds with the frightening urgency of a serious-minded political thriller, as Tea Leoni's ambitious journalist realises her big scoop is far bigger than she had initially thought, a misunderstood acronym leading her to realise the world might be coming to an end.
There's something about the phrase black-market water that will always be deeply unsettling. In Val Guest's grimly realistic disaster movie from 1961, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, we watch the apocalypse creeping into view from the perspective of a Fleet Street newsroom.
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