Scheck on the Arts

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently featured in the New Voices in Black Cinema Festival: Gone Too Far concerns the culture clash between a British teenager and his older Nigerian brother. To read the review, click here. C… more »

The horror film Pod concerns a PTSD-afflicted veteran who claims to be the victim of a mysterious government conspiracy. To read my Hollywood Reporter of the film recently screened at SXSW, click here. A family unwittingly falls victim to a home invad… more »

The documentary Freeway: Crack in the System recounts the story of Freeway Rick Ross, one of the most successful drug kinpins of the 1980s. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. Ross Partridge stars in his screen adaptation of the novel La… more »

Malcom Ingram's documentary Out to Win explores the lives and careers of gay athletes past and present. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently screened at SXSW, click here. ----Frank Scheck more »

Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman head an international cast in the sword-clashing tale of revenge and honor Last Knights. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. A supposedly brilliant unproduced screenplay becomes an object of obsession in the… more »