The raucously fun Circus Oz is back in town with their new show From the Ground Up. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Terrence McNally's new play The Golden Age is set during the 1835 opening night of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Puritani. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren return in Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, the latest installment of the long-running action film franchise. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A killer Santa Claus goes on a murderous rampage in Silent Night, a loose remake of the 1984 cult favorite horror film. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The German romantic comedy What a Man proves that Hollywood doesn't hold the patent on stage rom-com conventions. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A young couple find their relationship while attending a pre-nuptial Catholic retreat in the indie film Certainty. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck