Scheck on the Arts

Matthew Broderick stars in Shining City, the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Conor McPherson's 2004 drama about unmoored Dubliners. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Veteran Italian actress Laura Morante plays a twice-divorced woman struggling to regain her self-confidence in Solo, the comedy which she also directed and co-scripted. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently featured at the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A designer drug causes its users to become violent in Urge, the new thriller featuring Pierce Brosnan. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Christopher Duddy's documentary/concert film It's So Easy and Other Lies is based on the memoir by Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Beth Behrs of 2 Broke Girls stars in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Halley Feiffer's caustic comedy about two mismatched people who meet in their mothers' shared hospital room. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal's immersive documentary Gurukulam depicts day-to-day life in an Indian ashram. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Family tensions escalate after a matriarch suffers a stroke in War, the latest provocative drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of  An Octoroon and Gloria.  To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Mark Strong plays an astronaut on an ill-fated mission to Mars in the sci-fi thriller Approaching the Unknown. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Victor Kanefsky's documentary Art Bastard presents an intimate portrait of the iconoclastic artist Robert Cenedella. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover star, sort of, in the dystopian sci-fi thriller Andron. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck