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

Return of the Jedi (1983)

[9] George Lucas wraps up his historic, original Star Wars trilogy with an entry that's widely considered inferior to the first two films -- but that's more a testimony to the unparalleled excellence of those prior films than a knock against it's…

September 7, 2026

War Horse (2011)

[8] Steven Spielberg traverses the European battlefront of World War I through the eyes of a horse named Joey in this adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel and a stage play by Nick Stafford. We see this foal born, trained by a teenaged…

September 6, 2026

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

[6] Freddy's franchise continues with a fifth worthwhile installment directed by Stephen Hopkins (The Ghost and the Darkness, Predator 2). Freddy (Robert Englund) continues his killing spree by haunting the dreams of an unborn child. The child in question belongs to Alice…

September 6, 2026

Cast Away (2000)

[8] Tom Hanks reteamed with director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future) for this survival story about a FedEx worker whose plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean, stranding him on a small, deserted island. He braves the elements, starvation, injury,…

September 5, 2026

The King and I (1956)

[5] Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner star in this opulent period musical from Broadway legends Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein. Kerr plays Anna, a widowed British school teacher who travels with her young son to Siam (modern-day Thailand) where she's agreed to…

September 4, 2026

The Talk of the Town (1942)

[8] Cary Grant plays a prison escapee who hides out in a rental home belonging to Jean Arthur. Arthur takes pity on him, but she's also playing host for Ronald Colman, a visiting law professor whose just been offered a position on…

September 3, 2026

Juno and the Paycock (1930)

[5] Alfred Hitchcock adapts Sean O'Casey's popular stage play about a poor Irish family that inherits a small fortune but ends up losing so much more. Juno (Sara Allgood) is the matriarch, who's constantly cleaning up after her husband (Edward Chapman), 'The…

September 2, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock

Hammer Films

Disney Animation