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

The Road Warrior (1981)

[7] Mel Gibson's policeman-turned-vigilante returns in this sequel from Mad Max director George Miller. The Road Warrior takes place years after the events of the first film, plunging the Australian outback further into a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi setting. In a script…

July 9, 2026

Suburbicon (2017)

[4] After his mother is killed in a home invasion, a young boy (Noah Jupe) begins to suspect his father (Matt Damon) and aunt (Julianne Moore) staged the event -- and that his life is now in danger, too. He…

July 8, 2026

Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

[5] Christopher Lee gives a boisterous performance as the legendary Grigori Rasputin, the duplicitous Russian consigliere to the Romanov family in the early 1900s. Hammer Films embraces Rasputin's more mythic qualities in this Dracula-like horror film, where the disgraced monk…

July 7, 2026

Taxi Driver (1976)

[9] Robert DeNiro stars as Travis Bickle, a New York City taxi cab driver so disgusted with the city's crime and depravity that he turns to armed vigilantism. After he's spurned by a beautiful political campaign organizer (The Last Picture…

July 6, 2026

Quality Street (1937)

[4] Katharine Hepburn is remembered as one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but after having a few early hits like Morning Glory and Little Women, her career went into a tailspin for several years. In the mid-'30s she was even labeled…

July 5, 2026

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

[7] The villainous boogeyman Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) comes back for his first sequel, but this time he's not trying kill kids in their dreams -- he wants to kill them in the real world. And in order to do…

July 5, 2026

Independence Day (1996)

[8] The disaster film is alive and well in this summer blockbuster in which evil aliens threaten to destroy Earth, leaving it up to a rag-tag team of politicians, soldiers, and scientists (plus a drunken crop-duster and a pole dancer!),…

July 4, 2026

James Bond

Hammer Films

Disney Animation