Scheck on the Arts

Filmmaker Liz Corfixen delivers a highly personal behind-the-scenes account of her director husband's efforts making Only God Forgives in her documentary My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A family finds itself in peril after moving to a remote South American village in the supernatural thriller Out of the Dark, starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman and Stephen Rea. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Edy Ganem of Devious Maids plays the dual roles twentysomething slacker and the glamorous star of her favorite telenovela in the identity switching-themed comedy Ana Maria in Novela Land. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

Close encounters of the third kind prove less than benign in the low-budget, sci-fi horror film Ejecta. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A group of young scientists make the mistake of raising the dead in the new low-budget horror film The Lazarus Effect. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Salma Hayak plays a woman fending off an endless series of assassins in the ultra-violent action film Everly. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A ragtag group of superheroes protects Brooklyn in the campy new Off-Broadway musical Brooklynite, co-written and directed by Michael Mayer of Spring Awakening and American Idiot fame. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Taylor Lautner of the Twilight films stars in the parkour-themed action thriler Tracers. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Emmy winner Merrit Wever stars in the Off-Broadway drama The Nether, about a dystopian society where people can act out their darkest fantasies online. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Lives of the Saints, an evening of comic one-act plays, arrives courtesy of All in the Timing and Venus in Fur playwright and director John Rando. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck