Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have nailed the ending.

The images showed the Fighting Machine or the Martian Tripod seen in the sci-fi movie War of the Worlds. The scale and the detail was commendable to say the least.

“War of the Worlds,” starring Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern and an international cast, is based on the eponymous H.G. Wells novel about an alien invasion of Earth.

HG Wells fans have slammed a new Royal Mint £2 coin celebrating the science-fiction writer for an apparent litany of errors, including adding a leg to his “monstrous tripods” that invaded ...

WAR OF THE WORLDS ½ (two and a half stars) Call it a draw Running time: 117 minutes. Rated R (disturbing images and intense sci-fi violence). At the Ziegfeld, the E-Walk, the New York Twin ...

A big part of why the alien invasion genre has been so popular over the years is that the first example remains the best. First published in 1898, HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds is a tale of ...

The video also featured the menacing horn sound effect emitted by the deadly alien tripods from the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, "War of the Worlds." In the movie, ...

SINGAPORE - On the 15th anniversary of its release, War Of The Worlds (PG, 111 minutes, HBO Go, 4 stars) remains one of the best alien invasion movies ever made. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Spielberg had worked with aliens before, of course, but had tended to favor friendlier visitations in the form of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T." The invaders in "War of the Worlds ...