Scheck on the Arts

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

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