Scheck on the Arts

Ada Upshiz's documentary Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt examines the life and ideas of the author who coined the phrase "the banality of evil." To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Melissa McCarthy plays a business tycoon fallen on hard times in The Boss, a raunchy comedy directed by her husband, Ben Falcone. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Ross Lipman's "kino-essay" Notfilm documents the making of the 1965 short Film, written by Samuel Beckett and starring Buster Keaton. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

'40s-era film noir is spoofed in Kill Me Deadly, Barrett Sanders' comedy based on Bill Robens' stage play.  To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic production King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II and Henry V, click here.

A group of old friends gather together to host a wake in Antlia Pneumatica, Anne Washburn's supernatural-tinged drama featuring Annie Parisse and Rob Campbell. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the Off-Broadway play, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Andrew Wakefield's controversial documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, receiving a hurried theatrical release after being bumped from the Tribeca Film Festival, attempts to prove the link between the MMR vaccine and autism. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck