Scheck on the Arts

Original songwriters Alan Menken and David Zippel have contributed five new songs to the new stage adaptation of the 1997 Disney animated film Hercules, featuring a cast of 200 and playing a free, weeklong run in Central Park. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Ben Kingsley plays an aging Mossad agent investigating a company suspected of selling chemical weapons in Eran Riklis' spy thriller Spider in the Web. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Bruce Davison appears in Itsy Bitsy, Micah Gallo's horror film about a giant spider that terrorizes a single mother and her two young children. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

In Kim Farrant's psychological thriller Angel of Mine, Noomi Rapace plays an emotionally disturbed woman who becomes convinced that a neighbor's young daughter is actually her own child she thought was dead. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Marjoleine Boostra's documentary The Miracle of the Little Prince explores how translations of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic novel have helped keep several esoteric languages alive. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Make Believe, the latest effort from playwright Bess Wohl, author of Small Mouth Sounds, explores the lingering effects of a traumatic event on the lives of four young children. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A couple on their first date gets locked inside a movie theater in Anthony Sabet's romantic comedy One Last Night. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Daniel Krikke's documentary Scared of Revolution provides a deeply intimate portrait of Umar Bin Hassan of the highly influential spoken-word group The Last Poets. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

John Buffalo Mailer and Eden Epstein play two strangers who reveal painful secrets about their past in Jennifer Gelfer's indie drama The Second Sun. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck