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

Spectre (2015)

[7] James Bond (Daniel Craig) is forced to go rogue when British intelligence falls under questionable new leadership. M (Ralph Fiennes), Q (Ben Whishaw), and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) aid and abet to help unroot who's behind the power-grab, unearthing an…

August 8, 2026

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

[9] Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream) stars as a widowed mother who suddenly finds herself having to start a new life in this engaging comedy/drama from Martin Scorsese that became a popular TV sitcom (Alice). The feature film…

August 8, 2026

Gorillas in the Mist (1988)

[7] Sigourney Weaver plays anthropologist Dian Fossey in this biopic from director Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter, Thunderheart). Fossey studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda and the Congo, living among them for nearly 18 years in '60s, '70s, and '80s. Her…

August 6, 2026

The Farmer’s Wife (1928)

[5] In this silent comedy from Alfred Hitchcock, a middle-aged farmer and widower (Jameson Thomas) decides to remarry several seasons after the death of his wife. His maid (Lillian Hall-Davis) helps him create a list of eligible women, but each…

August 5, 2026

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

[3] As much as I enjoy most Hammer horror movies, their Frankenstein series almost always underwhelms me. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is the fifth film in the series and the fourth to disappoint. (Only 1967's Frankenstein Created Woman is worth…

August 4, 2026

Dick Tracy (1990)

[6] Warren Beatty directs and stars in Disney's big budget adaptation of Chester Gould's 1930s comic strip about a square-jawed detective caught in a constant battle of whack-a-mole with a horde of colorful gangsters. The screenplay by Top Gun's Jim…

August 3, 2026

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

[8] Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) returns for a third film that's just as good as the original. Heather Langenkamp's Nancy also returns, now a psychologist who specializes in dreams, hired on at a hospital where suicidal teens are being terrorized…

August 2, 2026

James Bond

Hammer Films

Disney Animation