Scheck on the Arts

Ron Perlman plays an aging hit man who finds love in Asher, a thriller directed by Michael Caton-Jones, also featuring Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacqueline Bisset and Peter Facinelli. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Emmanuelle Chriqui and Sam Trammell star in Hospitality, a thriller about a former prostitute whose past comes back to haunt her. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Alex Pettyfer makes his directorial debut with Back Roads, a gritty drama in which he plays a young man caring for his three younger sisters after a family tragedy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Rob Brydon of the Trip movies plays a depressed accountant who becomes newly energized after he joins a men's synchronized swimming team in Oliver Parker's comedy Swimmng with Men. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Patrick Fabian of Better Call Saul stars in DriverX, Henry Barrial's drama about a financially desperate middle-aged man who turns to driving for a rideshare company. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Geno McDermott's documentary My Perfect World: The Aaron Hernandez Story chronicles the story of the star football player who committed suicide while serving a prison sentence for first-degree murder. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Tom Wilkinson plays an aging hit man who gets hired by a suicidal young man in Tom Edmunds' black comedy Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back). To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Robert Townsend's behind-the-scenes documentary Making the Five Heartbeats chronicles the creation of his 1991 cult favorite The Five Heartbeats. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck