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

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

[7] After years of experimenting in various film genres, director Alfred Hitchcock finally committed to thrillers and suspense with his seventeenth feature, The Man Who Knew Too Much. A young teen girl (Nova Pilbeam) is kidnapped by spies after her parents (Leslie…

October 21, 2026

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

[3] Hammer Films' 1970s death spiral continues with this snoozy adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars. Valerie Leon stars as an archaeologist's daughter who becomes increasingly possessed by the spirit of a long-deceased Egyptian princess (also played by Leon).…

October 20, 2026

You and Me (1938)

[7] Sylvia Sidney and George Raft star in this odd, romantic comedy from Fritz Lang (Fury, Metropolis). The two play ex-convicts who find gainful employment with a department store owner (Harry Carey) who believes in second chances. They fall in love and…

October 19, 2026

The Guardian (1990)

[6] New parents (Dwier Brown and Carey Lowell) unwittingly welcome evil into their lives when they hire a British nanny (Jenny Seagrove) who plans to feed their baby to a tree monster in the woods. The Guardian may suffer from a muddled,…

October 18, 2026

The Omen (1976)

[8] Gregory Peck squares off against the Antichrist in this popular horror-thriller from director Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon). Peck plays the American ambassador to England and a good friend of the president. When we first meet him, he's grieving his stillborn…

October 18, 2026

The Call of the Wild (2020)

[6] Harrison Ford co-stars with a computer-animated dog in this retelling of Jack London's The Call of the Wild. The adaptation is somewhat faithful to the source material, at least in its broad strokes, but it cuts back on a lot of…

October 17, 2026

X-Men (2000)

[7] The first X-Men movie came along at an interesting time in the history of so-called 'comic book' movies, long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe became a reliable box office phenomenon. It was only a few years after the infamously goofy Batman…

October 16, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock

Hammer Films

Disney Animation