Scheck on the Arts

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 1… more »

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 Haye… more »

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 r… more »

John Larroquette stars in Nantucket Sleigh Ride, the new absurdist comedy written by John Guare and directed by Jerry Zaks, who previously collaborated on The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click… more »

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'… more »