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

The Guardian (1990)

[7] 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

Day of the Dead (1985)

[5] George Romero concludes his famous 'Dead' trilogy with 1985's relatively underwhelming Day of the Dead. The film centers around a group of scientists and military personnel who take shelter in a sprawling underground bunker in Florida while the dead walk the…

October 16, 2026

Peter Pan (1953)

[6] Walt Disney adapts J.M. Barrie's story about three children from London -- Wendy, Michael, and John Darling -- who take a magical trip to Neverland with a hero only children can see: Peter Pan. Pan, an eternal boy who'll never grow…

October 15, 2026

Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

[6] Waltzes from Vienna, or Strauss' Great Waltz as it was retitled in America, is perhaps Alfred Hitchcock's least popular film, and one the director regarded as one of the lowest ebbs in his career. While it certainly falls outside the director's…

October 14, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock

Hammer Films

Disney Animation