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HG Wells, Hitler and Tasmania’s dark past: the stories behind arrival cards in Australia’s National Archives

Archive material captures arrival in Australia of celebrities including Princess Anne, Fred Astaire and four-year-old Russell Crowe, as well as The War of the Worlds author’s explosive 1938-39 visit

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7 best movies leaving Max soon — watch now before they’re gone

From War of the Worlds to Kung Fu Panda, these are the best movies you won't be able to catch on Max before the next purge.

Tom’s Guide

Cairns artist David Hudson recalls Island of Dr Moreau experience with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer

David Hudson has led an extraordinary life, but his stint as a half-human, half-bison hybrid alongside the Godfather star and Val Kilmer while filming The Island of Dr Moreau remains his strangest claim to fame.

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Vet alarmed over bloated Pentagon budget

The military-industrial-congressional complex seizes on "new Cold War" with Russia and China

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The Time Machine: A Comedy review – malfunctioning merriment

This riff on HG Wells’s sci-fi novella has a sharp cast but relies on a wearisome play-within-a-play concept and lacks momentum

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Time travel scientist claims to have found a way to go back in time after 'eureka' moment

Professor Ronald Mallett thinks he now has the answer to time travel - but you thankfully won't be needing a DeLorean like the hit 8'0s movie Back to the Future

Daily Mirror

Back to the father: the scientist who lost his dad – and resolved to travel to 1955 to save him

After losing his beloved father when he was 10, Ronald Mallett read HG Wells and Einstein. They inspired his eminent career as a theoretical physicist – and his lifelong ambition to build a time machine

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America's theater of the absurd

Last week's power struggle between warring factions of charlatans, con men and "influencers" was only the beginning

Salon

Would you like to time travel?

Time travel remains a fantasy since we can't actually step into a blue police box or a DeLorean to journey into the fourth dimension.

Bangkok Post

If humans survive for a million years, this is what the world might look like

A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for roughly 300,000 years. So what will happen if we make it to a million years?

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Cyborgs v 'holdout humans': what the world might be like if our species survives for a million years

Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and environmental shifts. A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for roughly 300,000 years. So what will happen…

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Somerville review: minimalist British horror is the perfect game for winter

One man and his dog traverse the English countryside after an alien invasion in this haunting, wordless game: a masterclass in foreboding sound design and minimal storytelling

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Mark Brown: More heat than light offered in feminist The Time Machine retelling

‘IF you had a time machine, where would you go?” It’s a game that, thanks to H.G. Wells’s famous 1895 sci-fi novella The Time Machine, most…

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The Time Machine review – radical feminist retelling of the HG Wells classic looks to the future

The four actors are less interested in Wells’s sci-fi fantasy than in the divisions of today as they stock up for the coming apocalypse with onions, tampons and jars of sperm

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David Warner: a fiercely charismatic actor who raised the IQ of his movies

From Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment to one of movie history’s most shocking death scenes, Warner’s classical training, style and fine voice gave character to any role

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Review: 'The Daughter of Doctor Moreau,' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

FICTION: This take on H.G. Wells' sci-fi classic is set in a real place during a real war, giving it a sharp modern meaning.

Inverse

45 years ago, the best H.G. Wells movie changed sci-fi horror forever

Most H.G. Wells adaptations get this wrong. But in 1977, one movie finally nailed it.

Inverse

You need to watch the scariest viral apocalypse movie ever made on Netflix ASAP

When a medical cure goes totally wrong and transforms most of the few remaining humans into nocturnal zombies, one legendary man has to fix it.

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The best recent science fiction and fantasy – review roundup

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch; The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings; Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata and Old Country by Matt and Harrison Query

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Three things with Claire G Coleman: ‘If it was lost in a fire it would be a terrible loss to art’

In our weekly interview about objects, the Noongar author tells us about her treasured painting from late artist Arone Meeks, and her favourite – though misnamed – kitchen utensil

Inverse

The 8 best movie time machines of all time, ranked by scientists

Scientists and engineers reveal the best, worst, and most outrageous time-travel machines to come out of Hollywood, from beloved favorites to underrated innovations.

Inverse

20 years ago, H.G. Wells’ great-grandson reimagined a time travel classic

For 'The Time Machine's 20th anniversary, director Simon Wells gets candid about directing a classic sci-fi adventure.

The Independent UK

Earth Day 2022: The ‘revenge of nature’ in fiction, from Day of the Triffids to Godzilla and Swamp Thing

Mother Earth punishing humanity for the evils of pollution and deforestation was a potent nightmare for novelists and filmmakers long before global warming was well understood

The Guardian - UK

The Invisible Man review – therapy and sound effects in HG Wells update

Despite clever stagecraft and the best efforts of four committed young actors, the drama and bite of Philip Correia’s new adaptation is muffled

The Guardian - UK

The Invisible Man review – HG Wells in the psychiatrist’s room

Troubled young man Simon Griffin is invisible to society even before the vanishing act, while his therapist has the opposite problem

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