Things to Come (1936)
Oct 9, 2003Building a Scientific Utopia
From a script by H.G. Wells, this comes with a visionary sweep that depicts the building of a scientific utopia but equally suffers from dull and heavy-handed polemical dialogue
Edward Chapman
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937)
Apr 14, 2001Man Gains Miraculous Powers
H.G. Wells scripted film with Roland Young as a man who suddenly finds he can perform miracles
X the Unknown (1956)
Nov 25, 2015Radioactive Blob Amok
An early Hammer film, an attempt to exploit the success of their Quatermass films. This prefigures the menace of The Blob by a couple of years (while adding a few dashes of the atomic monster fad) but comes with a stark b/w urgency that makes this by far the better film