Scheck on the Arts

Actor/comedian Chris Gethard discusses his lifelong battle with mental illness and alcoholism in Career Suicide, his mordantly amusing one-man show presented by Judd Apatow. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong plays a former punk rocker turned suburban dad in the comedy/drama Ordinary World. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

The late Angus Scrimm makes his final appearance as the demonic "Tall Man" in Phantasm: Ravager, the fifth and final installment of the long-running horror film series. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Johnny Simmons plays a man hitting puberty for the first time at age 30 in The Late Bloomer, a raunchy screen comedy directed by actor Kevin Pollak. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Puk Grasten's directorial debut, 37, is a fictional examination of the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Kathy Bates, Glenn Close and Octavia Spencer star in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an adaptation of Katherine Paterson's acclaimed 1978 YA novel. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have brought their septuagenarian characters Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland to the Great White Way with Oh, Hello on Broadway. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Comedian Lisa Lampanelli stars in her playwriting debut, Stuffed, about women's food and body image issues. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the work currently receiving its world premiere by the WP Theatre, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump engaged in a particularly nasty second presidential debate Sunday night even as Trump's campaign was in crisis mode. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the event, click here.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck resprised their roles in the Live Read New York presentation of their Oscar-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the event directed by John Krasinski and also featuring Emily Blunt, click here.

------Frank Scheck