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

Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)

[7] Director Takashi Yamazaki returns for the sequel to 2023's sensational Godzilla Minus One. Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, and young Sae Nagatani also return as the surrogate family that became the heart of that first film. Two years later, a new monster…

November 6, 2026

Wildwood (2026)

[6] After her baby brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows, a young girl named Prue and her nerdy classmate, Curtis, embark on a rescue mission inside a magical forest world adjacent to Portland, Oregon, where humans and anthropomorphic animals live…

November 5, 2026

Secret Agent (1936)

[6] After the spirited spy hijinks of The 39 Steps, director Alfred Hitchcock followed up with another fun espionage adventure, Secret Agent, based on a pair of novels by W. Somerset Maugham. John Gielgud (Arthur) co-stars as a British novelist-turned-spy sent to…

November 4, 2026

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)

[6] Ralph Bates (The Horror of Frankenstein) stars as the infamous Dr. Jekyll, harvesting female hormones from fresh cadavers in his quest to invent a cure for all ailments. His experiments lead to an interesting result, though: a male fly becomes a…

November 3, 2026

The Human Comedy (1943)

[8] Mickey Rooney headlines this slice-of-life picture about a New York town maintaining the home front during WWII. Rooney plays a highschooler working as a telegram delivery boy to help provide for his family while his older brother is in service. James…

November 2, 2026

Fright Night (1985)

[9] As the horror genre shifted full-bore into gore and kill counts in the '80s, Tom Holland (Child's Play) wrote and directed this Valentine to a simpler, more classic way of spooky storytelling. Fright Night is about a high school boy (William…

November 1, 2026

Nightbreed (1990)

[9] Nightbreed is a bad movie. But it's also one of my favorite movies. Allow me to explain. The film, directed by Clive Barker and based on his book Cabal, wants to be a sprawling horror-fantasy epic for the ages. The complicated…

November 1, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock

Hammer Films

Disney Animation