NEW YORK (OSV News) – Back in the early days of the Ford administration, disaster movies were all the rage. A capsized cruise ship, a skyscraper aflame, airplanes imperiled -- the genre ran the gamut of mishaps before fading away at the end of the 1970s. Two decades later, advances in computer capabilities led to something of a revival, one product of which was 1996's "Twister." Director Jan de Bont's film had separated spouses Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton working through their marital tensions while trying to make a breakthrough in early storm warning. Flash forward nearly 30 years and a standalone sequel, "Twisters" (Universal), looms on the horizon. While moviegoers need not take shelter from this long-distance follow-up --…