Scheck on the Arts

Peter Mullan and Gerard Butler play Scottish lighthouse keepers in Kristoffer Nyholm's 1930s-set thriller The Vanishing. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Cybill Shepherd plays a seriously ill woman who goes on a road trip in her motorized wheelchair in Being Rose, Rod McCall's drama also featuring James Brolin and Pam Grier. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Dennis Scholl and Kareem Tabsch's documentary The Last Resort spotlights the work of photographers Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe, who captured Miami's South Beach when it was largely populated by Jewish retirees. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Gordon Clark's documentary Unknown Distance follows former Marine Sniper Douglas Brown as he travels around the country talking to fellow veterans about the difficulties they experienced upon returning home. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play the classic Arthur Conan Doyle characters in Holmes & Watson, Etan Cohen's sendup also featuring Ralph Fiennes and Rebecca Hall. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Nicolas Cage and Franka Potente star in Between Worlds, Maria Pulera's supernatural thriller tinged with dark humor. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Sandra Luckow's documentary That Way Madness Lies provides an intimate chronicle of her brother's struggle with mental illness and the toll it took on his family. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck