Scheck on the Arts

Frontline's new two-part documentary The Facebook Dilemma may scare you off social media forever. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Anthony J. Muscato's years-in-the-making documentary Mooch profiles the Trump associate who became the shortest-lived White House Communications Director in history. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A Bread Factory, the latest effort from Patrick Wang, acclaimed writer/director of In the Family, is a two-part minimalist epic about an upstate New York community arts center struggling to survive. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Lewiston/Clarkston, two one-act plays by MacArthur "Genius Grant"-winner author Samuel D. Hunter, are performed in an intimate theatrical setting in which the audience shares a communal meal between the two parts. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Gerard Butler plays the commander of a U.S. submarine attempting to rescue a Russian president in Hunter Killer, a military thriller also featuring Gary Oldman and Common. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

A close-knit Punjabi community in Wisconsin is shattered by a tragic event in India Pale Ale, the new play by Jaclyn Backhaus, author of the acclaimed Men in Boats. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Stephen Dorff and Melissa George play a couple haunted by the accidental death of their young daughter in David Gleeson's supernatural-tinged thriller Don't Go. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck