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Ice Cube Named Worst Actor of the Year While His Film 'War Of The Worlds' Takes Worst Picture at Razzie Awards

Ice Cube's 'War of the Worlds' (2025) takes home multiple Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor.

International Business Times UK

War of the Worlds review – HG Wells recast as a fever dream of fear and xenophobia

A visually arresting adaptation trades Martian menace for Enoch Powell-era paranoia – technically dazzling, politically pointed, yet also confusing

The Guardian - UK

The worst of the worst: ‘War Of The Worlds’ and ‘Snow White’ lead Razzies 2026 nominations

The Razzies have announced their nominations for 2026 – and love or loathe them, it’s hard to argue with their picks. Here's the lowdown.

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Letter: Robert Wilson obituary

Richard Lee writes: Time, light, sound and structure conspired together to result in a startling journey

The Guardian - UK

Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

The Guardian - UK

Stephen King Explains Why He's Not Worried About Being Replaced By A.I. (Yet), And Naturally Uses A Classic Novel To Make His Point

Stephen King calls out a classic when talking about the potential future of A.I.

Cinemablend

The 10 Most Terrifying Villains In Sci-Fi Books

Aliens. AI. Evil corporations. The future is out to get us.

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65 Years Ago, One Iconic Sci-Fi Movie Defined A Genre Forever

Adventures in the 4th dimension were never the same after this. Here's the one reason why the 1960 'Time Machine' endures.

Inverse

As Prime Video's War of the Worlds alienates fans and critics, its 2005 Tom Cruise-led namesake is getting a new lease of life – but I'd recommend a different version

Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds movie is enjoying a streaming renaissance thanks to its terribly-rated Prime Video namesake.

TechRadar

Amazon's cringey War of the Worlds makes me scared for the future of movies

Does it have no shame?

Creative Bloq

I Like What Prime Video's War Of The Worlds Was Going For, Even If It Fails Miserably

The new War of the Worlds is an homage to the greatest version of the story.

Cinemablend

'Worst film EVER!' Why War of The Worlds is being hated on with ZERO per cent rating

Prime Video’s ‘dreadful’ new HG Wells reboot stars Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, and is being dragged through the mud

Evening Standard

How did a new War of the Worlds movie get a 0% critical rating?

A cursed Covid-made version of the HG Wells classic, starring Ice Cube, has emerged after five-year delay – perhaps it should have stayed buried

The Guardian - US

I’m not surprised Prime Video’s War of the Worlds got slammed with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes – here’s where you can stream a far better version of the classic sci-fi tale for free

If you’ve had the misfortune of watching the 0% Rotten Tomatoes rated War of the Worlds on Prime Video, I’m sorry. But if you want to see the story done right, stream this for free.

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Total Film

Amazon's new War of the Worlds adaptation, which stars Ice Cube and is filmed entirely on a computer screen, debuts to 0% on Rotten Tomatoes

War of the Worlds is one of fewer than 50 movies to hold a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score

Tom’s Guide

Prime Video's remake of 'War of the Worlds' is in the top 10 list, even though it has 0% on Rotten Tomatoes

In Prime Video's critically planned remake of "War of the Worlds," Ice Cube plays a computer security analyst dealing with an alien attack

WhatToWatch

I watched Prime Video's new movie with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and it's the most fun I've had with a film this year

Could it be a so bad it's good classic?

The Mary Sue

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books About Time Travel (For When You’re Bored of Today)

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The new Prime Video trailer for War of the Worlds is already a Gen Z disaster waiting to happen

Out of nowhere, Prime Video has decided to adapt the epic sci-fi soap opera War of the Worlds. The new trailer has dropped, and frankly we should all hang our heads in shame.

The Independent UK

How War of the Worlds became one of Spielberg’s most controversial movies: ‘He lost his sense of decency’

FLASHBACKS: Arriving four years after the attack on the Twin Towers, Spielberg’s loose adaptation of the HG Wells classic – which turned 20 this week – utilised 9/11 imagery and a very era-specific sense of American panic to tell the story of an alien invasion. Many championed it. Others found…

The Mary Sue

10 Sci-Fi Books Where Humans Are The Bad Guys

In these sci-fi novels, we were the alien invaders the whole time.

The Mary Sue

The 10 Best Classic Sci-Fi Books (That Still Hold Up)

When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as…

Space

Could time travel tourism be the next space tourism? (op-ed)

Can we journey through time? Sci-fi author Dete Meserve presents a compelling case for our future in the past.

The Guardian - UK

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near-death

History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existence

The Conversation

Could humanity be extinct within 10,000 years? A new book is the wake up call our species needs

In H.G. Wells’ dystopian 1895 novel The Time Machine an unnamed Victorian scientist travels to the year 802,701. Instead of finding a flourishing, enlightened human civilisation reaping the cumulative benefits of millennia of economic and intellectual growth, he finds a horror scene. Here, gentle humans called Eloi are now the…

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