The War of the Worlds (1953) ⭐ 7.0 | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

I have very mixed feelings about this movie...The cinematography was beautiful, the island felt alive, and McConaughey was doing that intense, sweaty, mysterious thing he does so well. I was locked in, expecting a solid neo-noir thriller...Then the movie completely lost me...The big twist and the way the story shifts into this meta, reality-questioning direction felt too sudden and poorly executed...

There's a foreign language movie I watched as a teenager called Malena starring Monica Belluci. She's a woman whose husband is assumed dead during the war and she's basically sexually harassed by the men of the city who all want her and women who hate her for her beauty.She can't find work, nobody will help her and she's taken sexual advantage of by the men in town.She eventually has to start sexual relationships with occupying soldiers (N*zis) in order to feed herself and stay alive and when th