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A Century of Cinema: Reviews by Scott Schirmer

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The Fly II (1989)

[8] Eric Stoltz (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful) stars in the sequel to 1986's The Fly, playing the genetically-altered son of Seth Brundle, the scientist who accidentally turned himself into a giant fly in the first movie. Stoltz's character, Martin,…
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May 30, 2026

The Fly (1986)

[9] Jeff Goldblum (Silverado, The Big Chill) plays an inventor who creates teleportation pods that can molecularly deconstruct matter from one location and reconstitute it in another. After he uses himself as a test subject, he's elated by the strength…
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May 30, 2026

Young Guns (1988)

[5] Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, and Lou Diamond Phillips lead an ensemble cast in this film based loosely on the life of William H. Bonney, aka 'Billy the Kid'. Billy (Estevez) is an aimless street kid in 1870s New Mexico…
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May 29, 2026

Blazing Saddles (1974)

[8] Co-writer/director Mel Brooks (High Anxiety, Robin Hood: Men in Tights) picks at the scab of American racism during the post-Civil Rights Movement to tremendously comedic effect with the Western parody Blazing Saddles. When a small frontier town stands in…
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May 29, 2026

The World is Not Enough (1999)

[7] Pierce Brosnan's third Bond film is on par with his previous two. In The World is Not Enough, Bond is protecting an oil baroness (Braveheart's Sophie Marceau) from a terrorist (Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle) who's about to come into possession…
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May 27, 2026

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

[7] Hammer Films' and Peter Cushing's fourth Frankenstein film is easily the best up to that point, even though Cushing takes a bit of a back seat in the narrative. In Frankenstein Created Woman, the first half of the story…
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May 26, 2026

Porky’s (1981)

[9] Before he'd go on to make one of the most beloved holiday films of all time (A Christmas Story), writer/director Bob Clark took the teen sex comedy to new heights with Porky's. An amalgamation of Clark's high school experience…
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May 25, 2026

New Releases

  • The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
  • The Sheep Detectives (2026)
  • Wuthering Heights (2026)
  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
  • Michael (2026)

Westerns

  • Young Guns (1988)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Union Pacific (1939)
  • Maverick (1994)
  • Wild Rovers (1971)

Atomic Terror!

  • The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
  • Revenge of the Creature (1955)
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
  • These Are the Damned (1962)
  • The War of the Worlds (1953)
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