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War of the Worlds (2025) Director: Rich Lee Cast: Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Andrea Savage, Henry Hunter Hall, Iman Benson, Devon Bostick, and Michael O'Neill. Synopsis: Will Radford is a top cyber-security analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats to national security through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from the rest of the world.

Charles Melton in Warfare War movies usually aren’t my thing. I think that a lot of them do end up having the same message of “war is bad,” but there are certainly ones that I respect a lot. The big modern ones like Saving Private Ryan , Dunkirk , and The Hurt Locker are all great stuff, but I’d never go back to them personally. I’ve seen the recent remake of All Quiet on the Western Front , mainly because it was a big Oscar contender that year, but even then, war movies still aren’t my cup of tea. Alex Garland, however, has been someone I’ve at least admired. Even though Men is probably one of the worst movies of the decade so far, he’s got a really good track record as both a writer and a director. He’s directed Ex Machina , Annihilation , and the FX series Devs , as well as being a writer on Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later , who he’s reuniting with this summer for 28 Years Later . Garland’s last movie, Civil War , ended up stirring a lot of controversy with its depiction of a civil wa...

Still from The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim It’s interesting to see how fast this movie came and went. Yeah, an animated fantasy movie aimed at adults isn’t exactly a wide audience in America, but just look at the title of this post. A new Lord of the Rings movie, the first ever since the Hobbit movies, hit theaters last December. Granted, I didn’t see it until now, maybe that proves just how well this ended up going. I’ve never been too into Lord of the Rings and all that, but I’ve enjoyed what I remember of those movies. I guess this is a reminder that I have to watch those again at some point. Either way, this isn’t just an animated movie: it’s anime, honest-to-god anime. When The War of the Rohirrim was first announced, I thought it would be anime-inspired, like elements of the Spider-Verse movies. I really didn’t think it’d just be anime, but once I saw that Kenji Kamiyama, the director of this, created the Ghost in the Shell series, Stand Alone Complex , that’...