H. G. Wells

...grim" is not a lot of people's idea of a good time at the movies. Dystopian visions of the future have been around since H.G. Wells, so much so that we can naively root for Will Smith to live on in "I Am Legend" or laugh at the new...

In this article: Viggo Mortensen, John Hillcoat, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, H.G. Wells, The Road, I Am Legend, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Will Smith

...30,000 beyond-copyright works available for free download and import onto one's eBook reader, much of which is worth reading - not least HG Wells's contemporary fiction and war-game rulebook - there's also a plethora of free (self-published)...

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...is an unpredictable place at the moment and apocalyptic tales can be a reaction to that instability. When the film version of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds appeared in 1953, it joined a growing cast of alien/sci fi movies like the...

In this article: Roland Emmerich, The Book of Eli, Zombieland, The Road, The Day the Earth Stood Still, John Cusack, Independence Day, Recession, Global warming, and Godzilla

3 Charles ---, director of the films The Titfield Thunderbolt and The Lavender Hill Mob (8) 5 Race of decadent people in the H.G. Wells novella The Time Machine (4) 6 In Greek mythology, the mountain sandwiched between Olympus and...

In this article: Nobel Prize in Literature, Perseus, Livia, I, Claudius, The Titfield Thunderbolt, The Lavender Hill Mob, H.G. Wells, Harry Hamlin, and John Cusack

...they do. Charles Kingsley was an ardent supporter of Darwin and in 1862 wrote The Water Babies, in part to praise Darwin. HG Wells - who had been taught at school by TH Huxley, Darwin's "bulldog" - was directly influenced by the...

In this article: Planet of the Apes, Alien, Alfred Russel Wallace, London, Academy award, On the Origin of Species, HR Giger, and Edgar Rice Burroughs

...Moreau, Kamandi and Mad Max. "The idea came when I was working on my recent Vertigo series called The Nobody- a reinterpretation of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man," Lemire explains. "That involvement with Wells got me thinking about, and...

In this article: Vertigo, DC Comics, Mad Max, Kamandi, USA Today, H.G. Wells, and The Invisible Man

...Island of Dr. Moreau" When we first see Marlon Brando in "The Island of Dr. Moreau," John Frankenheimer's ill-fated adaptation of the H.G. Wells science fiction classic, we are almost sure that it is really him. He emerges from the jungle...

In this article: Marlon Brando, The Island of Dr. Moreau, David Thewlis, John Frankenheimer, Val Kilmer, Barfly, Free Money, H.G. Wells, and Nelson de la Rosa

...you grief? </p><p>5. "War of the Worlds" (2005): For our money, Steven Spielberg's eerily convincing adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells novel is the director's best movie this decade. Posted on Tue, Nov. 17, 2009 02:12 PM Falling...

In this article: Steven Spielberg, Roland Emmerich, H.G. Wells, Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Mare Winningham, Anthony Edwards, and War of the Worlds

There is a theory that our increasingly have and have-not world is leading to 'genetic drift' When H. G. Wells predicted a future world inhabited by two strata of humans - cave-dwelling cannibals and an above-ground smorgasbord population...

In this article: Peter Ward, Human, Eloi, Morlocks, The Time Machine, Polarization, Dog, and Climate change

...Stevens 1942 romantic comedy (3 p.m. TCM). The Time Machine: This 2002 retelling of the classic H.G. Wells story was directed by one of the author's descendants, Simon Wells (6:20 p.m. Cinemax). NASCAR racing: Sprint Cup: Checker...

In this article: Medium, H.G. Wells, Tim McGraw, Sprint Cup, Nascar, and Los Angeles Times