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This time, Tom Cruise moves back to New Jersey ... to kick some serious ass!

I wish. Actually, above you will find a trailer for the direct-to-DVD flick War of the Worlds 2. Oh yes, they made a sequel. Even better -- it's directed by ... C. Thomas Howell! (The Outsider is back -- virtual high five!) Not only that, but it stars Howell too, as well as a bunch of other people who you probably won't know. Apparently this one begins three years after we last left those aliens. Now, a new batch have arrived on earth to wreak havoc and our military gets involved with plans to attack their home planet. The effects are pretty funny, but it's obviously a low budget affair. Think: Starship Troopers sequel as far as the look of the film goes.

I believe the DVD came out last month, so if you actually rented this sucker, do let us know what you thought of it. Tom Cruise cameo? Fingers crossed!

Note: According to Cinematical reader Marc, this is a direct-to-DVD sequel for another direct-to-DVD title of War of the Worlds, and not a direct sequel of the Spielberg movie. My head is spinning after writing that sentence.

[via Twitch/Hat Tip to Aaron and Keith]

I must have had too many cups of coffee when I agreed to take on a Cinematical Seven covering the hunks of sports films. (Erik had the easy job, picking the Hottest Sports Girls.) Trying to pick the studs is like having hundreds of 4-star, wonderful movies thrown on your desk and being asked to pick the 7 best. Yeah, right! No problem! To make the task easier, I decided to pick a range of sports, and never double up on one particular type. That cut out a whole slew of possibilities, and what I came up with is what you see below.

What have I learned from picking the Seven Sexy Sporting Studs from cinema? The best of the best (pun intended) were in the '80s and '90s. I also learned that you should never share the list with a friend beforehand -- they'll remind you who you're forgetting, and that's why you'll find one tie down below. Enjoy!

The Eight Men Out Team

The only thing I knew when I took on this assignment was that Eight Men Out was going to be featured. Bull Durham is great and all, but this is the baseball movie. It's John Sayles, and it has the best baseball team to ever make it on the screen. They might have let their morals loosen a little, but they still kept their looks. Foolishly, I tried to pick between John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, and David Strathairn. Forget that! I'm taking the easy way out. Cusack's Buck Weaver was super cute as a "future jailbird," Charlie was always tasty in those days, and it's beyond me why women weren't falling all over David Strathairn the minute he jumped into film with Return of the Secaucus Seven, or any of the bigger movies that were soon to come. And Sweeney was cute, too, in that dorky way.