Reviews

The film got the visuals to match the fascinating story on MGM sound stage sets (the film was shot entirely indoors) that were created by primarily by art director Arthur Lonergan (the crowning achievement of his career - one that would include an Oscar nomination for his set decoration on 1966 film...

This review is about how Forbidden Planet became one of the most important sci-fi films to be made and literally changed the future...Not only the future of sci fi films, but the future of women's fashions...I'm talking the mini skirt!

The film follows a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier.

Forbidden Planet has aged reasonably well as far as sci-fi films from the 1950s go, though it doesn't exactly pull off a lot of surprises.

In Forbidden Planet, we witness why extremely developed technology in the hands of mankind can be dangerous (it's told in a very symbolic manner, but the argument the film's making is very clear) and in Stalker, we basically get a meditation on why the existence of the "supernatural" (a sort of "wis...