Scheck on the Arts

Joe Lauro's documentary The Big Beat: Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll chronicles the life and career of the legendary music pioneer. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A struggling actress descends into destructive behavior in the indie drama Diamond Tongues, recently screened at the Slamdance Film Festival. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Sonia Barrett's documentary The Business of Disease decries the pernicious effects of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Dominick Bagnato's mockumenary A Convenient Truth concerns a congressman's unique solution to the energy crisis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Michael Verhoeven's drama Let's Go!, based on Laura Waco's autobiographical novel, concerns the troubled reunion between a young woman and her Holocaust survivor mother. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this German film, click here.

Horror film Adam Green (Frozen, Hatchet) pursues underground monsters in his self-reflexive mockumentary Digging Up the Marrow. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Anna Camp stars in Verite, a new dark comedy from Orange is the New Black writer Nick Jones about a struggling writer looking to drum up memoir fodder. To read my Hollywood Reporter of this Lincoln Center Theater LCT3 production, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Hamilton, the new hip-hop infused musical by In the Heights creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, depicts the sprawling life of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. To read my Hollywood Reporter theater review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck