April 22: Earth Day Ends Here — Instead of celebrating a holiday created by a murderer, share an end of the world disaster movie with us. You can also take care of the planet while you’re writing.

Los Angeles has finally had the “Big One,” but it’s not the San Andreas Fault. It’s a series of dirty bombs that have turned the city of angels into a gray, ashen purgatory. Brad (Rory Cochrane) is a struggling musician who stays home while his wife Lexi (Mary McCormack) heads to work. When the clouds of toxic dust start rolling through the suburbs, Brad does exactly what the radio tells him to do: seal the house.

When Lexi returns covered in the very dust that the radio says will kill everyone, the movie stops being a thriller and becomes a gut-wrenching moral play. Do you open the door for the person you love if it means you both die?
Without spoiling the ending for the uninitiated, let’s just say Gorak pulls the rug out from under you in a way that feels like a punch to the solar plexus. Brad thinks he’s saving himself, but the very safety he’s built becomes a petri dish for something much worse.

Directed by Chris Gorak (who spent years as an art director for guys like Fincher and the Gilliam brothers), this flick takes the post-9/11 duct-tape-and-plastic-sheeting paranoia and turns it into a nihilistic nightmare. This was a good movie, but not a fun watch.

You can watch this on Tubi.