Scheck on the Arts

Douglas Hodge, Marin Mazzie, John Glover and Marsha Mason star in Fire and Air, Terrence McNally's play about the relationship between Ballets Russes impresario Sergei Diaghilev and famed dancer Vaslav Nijinksy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jason Momoa, soon to be seen in Aquaman, stars in Braven, Lin Oedling's action thriller aboout a man and his elderly father desperately battling a gang of drug traffickers. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Toby Sebastian plays a thinly disguised Andrea Bocelli in The Music of Silence, Michael Radford's biopic based on the opera singer's autobiography. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address to a divided nation Tuesday night, intoducing so many special guests in the process that it felt like he was pitching a new reality show. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Anna Chlumsky of Veep and Adam Pally of Happy Endings star in Cardinal, Greg Pierce's off-Broadway comedy about a plan to literally paint a town red. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, the latest experimental work by Adrienne Kennedy, influential author of Funnyhouse of a Negro, is a poeetical memory revolving around the segregated South. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

In his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Trump sucked up to the global elites he scorned on the campaign trail. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Shannon Alexander's debut feature The Misguided concerns two drug-dealing brothers and the young woman at the center of their orbit. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Jim Rash and David Koechner play the title roles in Bernard and Huey, Dan Mirvish's dark comedy based on a decades-old, unproduced script by Jules Feiffer. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently screened at the Slamdance Film Festival, click here.

A young woman suffers from a curse in which she repeatedly gets murdered and rises from the dead in The Campus, J. Horton's indie horror film. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

The Gladers once again battle the forces of WCKD in Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the third and final entry in the dystopian sci-fi franchise. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck