Forbidden Planet (1956)

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jun 20, 2002Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious
A classic of 1950s SF that creates one of the most well remembered screen robots. An uncredited adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, there are few other films that devote so much attention to creating a sense of wonder

How to Steal the World (1968)

How to Steal the World (1968)
Rating: ★★
Apr 1, 2005The The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The eight and last of the films recut from episodes of tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This starts to show the strain of trying to make what were originally designed as tv episodes work as feature films

Night Slaves (1970)

Night Slaves (1970)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 1, 2016Alien Body Snatchers
TV movies of the 1970s can be this unexplored treasure trove of sophisticated and intelligent genre treatments. Case in point being this effort, a variant on a 1950s body snatchers film in which a man with a steel plate in his head discovers that the people of a small town are being taken over at night by aliens