Categories: "News"

Monday, June 22, 2015

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently showcased at Lincoln Center's 2015 Open Roads: New Italian Cinema festival.

Daniele Cipri's farce Money Buddies concerns an ambulance-chasing lawyer who sees an opportunity for a windfall in the form of a recently released convict who went to jail for a crime he didn't commit. To read my review, click here.

Roan Johnson's comedy So Far So Good deals with five university graduates facing important life decisions. To read my review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Friday, June 19, 2015

Chris Noth plays the title role in the off-Broadway revival of Christopher Marlowe's classic play Doctor Faustus, which also features Zach Grenier of The Good Wife. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Shan Nicholson's documentary Rubble Kings recounts the stories of gangs who ruled the South Bronx from 1968-1975. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play Gloria depicts the traumatic repercussions of a life-changing event on the employees of a Manhattan magazine. To read my Hollywood Reporter theater review, click here.

The documentary The Babushkas of Chernobyl profiles the elderly women who continue to live in the Chernobyl "Exclusion Zone" despite the presence of deadly levels of radiation. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film that received its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

David Mamet's pair of creepily atmospheric one-acts Ghost Stories is being given a 30th anniversary revival by Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company in a production starring Arliss Howard and Jason Ritter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Dean Cain plays a detective who gets himself sent to prison to exact revenge on the bad guys who killed his wife in Vendetta, the new testosterone-laden effort from the Soska sisters. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The arrival of a mysterious stranger with "contagious blood" sets off a violent chain of events in the unconventional horror film Eli Roth Presents The Stranger, directed by Guillermo Amoedo. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A lethal assassin turns vigilante to protect the innocent in Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's Chilean action film Redeemer. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck