Schirmer Cinema – A Century of Cinema: Reviews by Scott Schirmer

I, Robot (2004)

[6] Will Smith (Independence Day, Six Degrees of Separation) stars in this sci-fi/mystery based loosely on the writings of Isaac Asimov. Smith plays Del Spooner, a 2035 police detective who distrusts the growing population of robots who serve humankind. When…

June 25, 2026

The Right Stuff (1983)

[7] Writer/director Philip Kaufman chronicles the birth of the U.S. space program in The Right Stuff, beginning with the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Based on Tom Wolfe's…

June 24, 2026

One Million Years B.C. (1966)

[3] Britain's Hammer Films spent over four times their normal budget to produce this goofy prehistoric drama about a caveman (John Richardson) and a cavewoman (Raquel Welch) from different tribes who partner up and brave the wild together, battling various…

June 23, 2026

Make Mine Music (1946)

[4] If musical animated shorts had to audition to be part of Disney's Fantasia, then Make Mine Music is a compilation of the rejects. Without an overarching narrative to connect these shorts in any way, the film hinges on the…

June 23, 2026

The Lady Gambles (1949)

[5] Barbara Stanwyck catches the gambling bug something fierce in this melodramatic film co-starring Robert Preston as her worried husband. Stanwyck dips her toes in a Las Vegas casino during a vacation and quickly falls under the spell of craps…

June 21, 2026

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

[6] Kurt Russell stars as a cocky truck driver who gets embroiled in a mystical adventure beneath San Francisco's Chinatown in this cartoonish action-comedy from director John Carpenter (Starman, The Thing). When the fiancée of a friend (Dennis Dun) is…

June 21, 2026

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

[8] While it wasn't technically the first 'found footage' horror film, The Blair Witch Project gets credit for popularizing the subgenre, capturing the attention of audiences worldwide with its cogent, documentary-style approach to its subject matter. The film appears to…

June 21, 2026

James Bond

Hammer Films

Disney Animation