Categories: "News"
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Nov 20th
The White House Correspondents Association wimped out with their decision to not present a comedian in next year's dinner. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.
The new Frontline documentary, Documenting Hate: New American Nazis, presents a chilling picture. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.
--------Frank Scheck
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Nov 20th
Adelaide Clemens plays a young scientist attempting to define the nature of consciousness in The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard's latest brain-teaser play being givens its New York premiere at Lincoln Center. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Jennifer Deschamps' documentary Inside Lehman Brothers recounts the stories of several Lehman Brothers employees turned whistleblowers. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently featured at DOC NYC, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Monday, November 19, 2018
Nov 19th
Siblings Tyne and Tim Daly star in Downstairs, Theresa Rebeck's thriller about the fraught relationship between an unhappy housewife and her possibly emotionally disturbed brother. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Ofir Trainin's documentary Family in Transition chronicles the effect on an Israeli clan when the father transitions into a woman. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Friday, November 16, 2018
Nov 16th
Harry Mavromichalis' documentary Olympia delivers a distintinctly personal portrait of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Aaron Paul and Emily Ratajkowski play a couple who find their relationship threatened by a mysterious stranger when they rent an Italian villa in David Levinson's thriller Welcome Home. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Nov 15th
Raul Esparza plays the title role in John Doyle's Classic Stage Company revival of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht's rarely produced 1941 allegorical play about Hitler's rise to power. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
A married South Korean man and a North Korean female defector enter into an ill-fated relationship in Wild Goose Dreams, Hansol Jung's surreal play, a co-production of the Public Theater and La Jolla Playhouse. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck