Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds clocks 20 years. Find out where to stream the sci-fi blockbuster!

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

Twenty years ago this week, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds opened in British cinemas, offering us a big-budget replay ...

THESE days, it seems every celebrity wants to put their name to a book club: among the rich and famous, they are as common as ...

The rags to riches star did have a genuine affection for Essex, in particular for the Southend seaside which had given him so much pleasure as a boy ...

FLASHBACKS: Arriving four years after the attack on the Twin Towers, Spielberg’s loose adaptation of the HG Wells classic – ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

Before the Book Society most Britons believed, as H.G. Wells, a writer, put it, “that it is extravagant and wrong to own ...

Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...

It's been a summer of classics for me. A series of events made me peer beyond the here-and-new into the phenomenon of ...