Scott's Movie Reviews – A Century of Cinema: Reviews by Scott Schirmer

Cash on Demand (1961)

[6] Peter Cushing and Andre Morell, paired a few years earlier in The Hound of the Baskervilles, re-team for Hammer Films in Cash on Demand. Based on a stage play, this is largely a two-man show with Morell playing a charming but…

September 22, 2026

The Vikings (1958)

[7] Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas co-star in this lavish, somewhat compromised adventure-drama set in medieval England and Norway. Douglas plays an aggressive Viking prince and Curtis plays his English slave, neither of them realizing they share the same Viking father (Ernest…

September 21, 2026

Masters of the Universe (1987)

[7] If you had to make a movie based on the ham-fisted He-Man toy line and you had no choice but to cast Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) in the lead, you could do far worse than first-time director Gary Goddard did with…

September 20, 2026

Lake Placid (1999)

[7] Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman star in this good old fashioned creature feature about a 30-foot crocodile that begins weeding out the population of a lakeside Maine community. The script is from TV titan David E. Kelly (Boston Legal, Ally McBeal,…

September 20, 2026

The Bad Seed (1956)

[7] After a child drowns during a school picnic, a mother (Nancy Kelly) begins to realize her psychopathic, pig-tailed daughter (Patty McCormack) is the culprit. The Bad Seed, based on a novel by William March and a play by Maxwell Anderson, is…

September 20, 2026

Superman Returns (2006)

[7] Brandon Routh dons the cape and tights to play Superman and his alter-ego, Clark Kent, in this film that's pretty much a direct sequel to 1981's Superman II. The film picks up five years after Superman left Earth to see if…

September 18, 2026

Melody Time (1948)

[6] For eight years in the 1940s, between Bambi (1942) and Cinderella (1950), Walt Disney Animation stopped making feature-length stories and focused on more budget-conscious 'anthology features' like Saludos Amigos and Fun and Fancy Free. Since anthologies are only as good as…

September 17, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock

Hammer Films

Disney Animation