Scheck on the Arts

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

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

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

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently featured at the SXSW Film Festival:

The Christian employees of a small-town movie theater find themselves battling a sexy succubus in Keola Racela's raunchy horror film Porno. To read my review, click here.

Old friends entertain each other with scary stories in Abigail Blackmore's horror/comedy anthology film Tales from the Lodge. To read my U review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

John Goodman, Ashton Sanders and Vera Farmiga star in Captive State, Rupert Wyatt's thriller about the aftermath of an alien invasion. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Emile Hirsch and John Cusack star in Never Grow Old, Ivan Kavanagh's Western about an outlaw who takes over a frontier town. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck