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  1. War of the Worlds. Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.

    • (18K)
    • 2020-02-16
    • Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
    • 49
    • Synopsis
    • Picture 9/10
    • Audio 8/10
    • Extras 8/10
    • Closing

    A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop ...

    Byron Haskin’s classic science fiction film The War of the Worldsfinally comes to Blu-ray through The Criterion Collection. Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1 on a dual-layer disc, the 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from an all new 4K restoration conducted by Paramount, scanned from the original three-strip Technicolor ...

    Criterion includes two audio tracks: the film’s original monaural track presented in lossless PCM, and then a new 5.1 remix created by sound designer Ben Burtt, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio. The remix is interesting as, according to the restoration feature on the disc, it was almost created entirely anew (Burtt had access to a number of the ind...

    Criterion’s special edition packs on some great material, but they inexplicably leave out material from the previous Paramount DVD, which also appears on another Blu-ray edition released in Australia. Paramount’s 2005 Special Edition DVD featured two audio commentaries but only one of those commentarytracks has been moved over here, the one featuri...

    The supplements are good (even if everything from the Paramount DVD hasn’t been carried over), but this is solely worth picking up just for the presentation alone. It looks exceptional and has never looked anywhere near like what it does here. BUY AT:

  2. The War of the Worlds: With Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Robert Carlyle, Rupert Graves. In London during the Edwardian era, George and Amy's attempt to start a life together is interrupted by a Martian invasion of Earth.

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    • 41 sec
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  4. Dec 2, 2022 · Paramount Pictures. One of the most interesting things about "War of the Worlds" is how much of a departure it is from Spielberg's previous films, especially his previous films about...

  5. An eight-episode second season premiered in France in May 2021. War of the Worlds was renewed for a third and final 8 episodes season in July 2021, which aired in September 2022. Premise [ edit] The series takes place in contemporary Britain and France, but it serves as a re-imagining of the classic H. G. Wells novel. [1]

  6. Feb 6, 2018 · It`s A Classic 90`s TV Show based on the 1953 Movie War Of The Worlds. Aliens invade the earth, common bacteria beats them, The get resurrected and try and continue on from the 1950`s Movie where it finished but in modern day earth. It contains both seasons which is split over 11 DVD`s.

  7. War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action-thriller film [b] directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on H. G. Wells ' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds. Tom Cruise stars in the main role alongside Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman.

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