Scheck on the Arts

Tom Arnold and Sean Astin star in Dead Ant, Ron Carlson's campy horror comedy about giant ants terrorizing aging rockers in the California desert. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

An inmate manipulates a female prison guard into helping him escape in Jon Kauffman's indie drama Heartlock. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Comedian Colin Quinn brings his cutting wit and keen observations to the state of our currently fractured union in his latest one-man show Red State Blue State. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Ben Niles' documentary The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness recounts the story of the popular sibling classical music group whose female members were sexually abused by their father. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Author/humorist Calvin Trillin adapts About Alice, his best-selling 2006 memoir about his relationship with his late wife, in an off-Broadway premiere presented by Theatre for a New Audience. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Noomi Rapace plays a tough-as-nails bodyguard assigned to protect a rich young heiress in the Netflix thriller Close. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Zach McGowan plays Chuck Wepner in The Brawler, Ken Kushner's biopic about the boxer whose title fight with Muhammad Ali inspired the film Rocky. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Tika Sumpter and Jamie Lee Curtis star in An Acceptable Loss, Joe Chappell's thriller about a former national security advisor who risks her life to expose a political cover-up. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck