Scheck on the Arts

Oscar winner Marion Cottilard plays the title role in Joan of Arc at the Stake, the New York Philharmonic's staged production of Arthur Honegger's classic oratorio. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A swingers' party goes disastrously awry in The Qualms, the new black comedy from Bruce Norris, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the Off-Broadway show, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Loudon Wainwright III's one-man show Surviving Twin combines his own songs with spoken word excerpts from his famed magazine columnist father's writings. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jason Trost stars in his sci-fi horror film How to Save Us, about a man searching for his missing brother in a post-apocalyptic landscape. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The giant-screen film Robots introduces us to new technology that results in the creation of lifelike humanoid robots. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A group of friends find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them dies accidentally and returns as a zombie. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review of the horror comedy, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Harry Hamlin plays an actor with anger management issues who attempts to seduce his sexy meditation instructor in the film The Fourth Noble Truth. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The documentary Dukale's Dream chronicles actor Hugh Jackman's trip to Ethiopia and subsequent advocacy of fair-trade coffee. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Freedom interweaves the fictional story of slaves fleeing on the Underground Railroad with with the true-life tale of John Newton, the slave ship captain who composed "Amazing Grace." To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

A former mercenary attempts to achieve spiritual salvation helping America fight for its independence in 1776 in the faith-based action film Beyond the Mask. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck