Scheck on the Arts

Gerard Alessandrini once again skewers the current theater scene in hilarious fashion with Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging, the latest edition of his long-running revue. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Cam Gigandet plays a womanizer who wakes up to discover that his penis has left his body and assumed human form in the comedy Bad Johnson. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Rumstick Road is a video reconstruction of the legendary 1977 Wooster Group stage production created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at Anthology Film Archives, click here.

Henry Jaglom's latest film, The M Word, explores female attitudes towards menopause. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The documentary Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank chronicles the life and political career of the first openly gay congressman. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this Tribeca Film Festival world premiere, click here.

An immature actor/screenwriter is suddenly forced to assume custody of his much younger, emotionally troubled sibling in Sister. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Courteney Cox makes her directorial debut with the dark comedy Just Before I Go, starring Seann William Scott as a depressed man who returns to his hometown to settle some old scores before committing suicide. To read my Hollywood Reporter of this film which received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

Fran Kranz plays an overgrown man-child who attempts to find the killer of his beloved feline in Murder of a Cat. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this Tribeca Film Festival world premiere, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A small group of passengers desperately to prevent their runaway train from speeding to a fatal crash in the nifty British thriller Last Passenger. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Mike Fleiss' revelatory documentary The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir chronicles the life and career of the Grateful Dead's legendary rhythm guitarist. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film which received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

----Frank Scheck