Category: "Hollywood Reporter"

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Jordan E. Cooper's surrealistic, episodic satire Ain't No Mo' imagines black Americans being forced to move to Africa or experience "extreme racial transmogrification." To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Andrea Burns (On Your Feet!, In the Heights) plays Tony and Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday in Willy Holtzman's bio-play with music Smart Blonde. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----------Frank Scheck

Monday, March 25, 2019

Zachary Levi plays a superhero who is actually a 14-year-old boy who can magically transform himself into a superhero in the new DC Comics movie Shazam! To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Friday, March 22, 2019

John Travolta plays a legendary dirt track racer who comes into conflict with his son in Karzan Kader's Southern-set drama Trading Paint. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Stephen Burke's drama Maze recounts the real-life story of the 1983 breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from a seemingly impregnanble Irish prison. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Daveed Diggs and Thomas Sadoski star in White Noise, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, about a black artists who asks his white friend to make him his slave for 40 days. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Mark Hayes' documentary Skid Row Marathon concerns a Los Angeles judge who started a running club on Skid Row and the members who got a second chance at life. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck