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

Pillion (2025)

[7] An aimless young Brit (Harry Potter's Harry Melling) enters into a fetishistic dominant/submissive relationship with a mysterious, handsome biker (Alexander Skarsgard). Melling cooks all Skarsgard's meals, does whatever he's told (and I mean whatever), and sleeps on a rug at the…

September 24, 2026

The Skin Game (1931)

[5] In this middling, early Alfred Hitchcock film, the aristocratic Hillcrist family battles with the industrialist Hornblower family over a plot of land in a small English village. The Hornblowers want to build a factory and erect unsightly smoke stacks, while the…

September 23, 2026

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Hammer Films

Disney Animation