In this episode, we review the 2025 screenlife science fiction thriller War of the Worlds, based on H.G. Wells’s 1898 novel and starring Ice Cube. We discuss whether this movie is meant to be taken seriously as a full-length film, and we debate whether Ice Cube has moved into more irrelevance as an actor since his heyday in the late 1990s to early 2000s.

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