Scheck on the Arts

Estelle Parsons and Judith Ivey star in Out of the Mouths of Babes, Israel Horovitz's new comedy about four women who gather for their former lover's funeral.  To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Nils Gaup's historical epic The Last King recounts a famous dramatic episode from Norway's 13th-century civil war. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A Conspiracy of Faith, the third installment in Denmark's hit Department Q crime film trilogy, features the cold-case police division purusing a serial killer who preys on children. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Mo-Young Jin's documentary My Love, Don't Cross That River, a box-office smash in Korea, profiles an elderly couple who have been married for 76 years. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Michael Collins' documentary Almost Sunrise explores the concept of "Moral Injury" as it relates to war veterans suffering from PTSD. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently screened at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers) plays a reformed gunslinger called back into action when his daughter is kidnapped in the old-fashioned Western drama Traded. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The Italian bio-pic Call Me Francesco largely concentrates on the early years of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later to become Pope Francis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck