Scheck on the Arts

For today, a quartet of new film reviews from the Hollywood Reporter:

Red Dawn is a remake of John Milius' 1984 cult favorite about a teenage guerrilla army resisting a foreign invasion. To read my review, click here.

16 Acres chronicels the years-long efforts to redevelop the site of Ground Zero. To read my review, click here.

The moving documentary Hitler's Childen presents portraits of descendants of top Nazi figures. To read my review, click here.

Who Bombed Judi Bari? examines the still unsolved1990 car bombing of a pair on environmental activists. To read my review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

This year's edition of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular celebrates the Rockettes' 85th anniversary. To read my New York Post review of this venerable holiday show, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The legendary band the Who are touring with a show featuring them performing their classic double-album Quadrophenia in its entirety as well as a selection of their biggest hits. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of their show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, click here.

The sobering new documentary The Law in these Parts examines the application of justice by Israeli authorities in the occupied territories. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Gretchen Mol stars in the torpid new off-Broadway drama The Good Mother. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Murder Ballad is a sexy new off-Broadway rock musical about a love triangle gone deadly wrong. To read my New York Post review, click here.

David Henry Hwang's 1996 play Golden Child is being revived by the Signature Theatre Company as part of its season devoted to the playwright. To read my New York Post review of this off-Broadway production, click here.

Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues) explores the lives of young women around the globe in her latest effort, Emotional Creature. To read my New York Post review, click here.

I Do is a romantic drama about a gay Brit forced to enter into a sham marriage to remain in the U.S. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film seen at the Savannah Film Festival, click here.

A warring father and son are forced to spend the weekend together in the indie drama In Our Nature. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film seen at the Savannah Film Festival, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

The Roundabout Theatre Company is presenting a Broadway revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Rupert Holmes' 1985 musical based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. To read my review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck