Scheck on the Arts

Tom Wilkinson plays an aging hit man who gets hired by a suicidal young man in Tom Edmunds' black comedy Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back). To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Robert Townsend's behind-the-scenes documentary Making the Five Heartbeats chronicles the creation of his 1991 cult favorite The Five Heartbeats. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Fox Nation, the new streaming service from Fox News, offers right-wing viewers the opportunity to gorge themselves on ultra-conservative programming 24 hours a day. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

An ex-cop working the graveyard shift at a morgue discovers that the cadaver of a young girl is possessed by a demon in the horror film The Possession of Hannah Grace. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Josh Hutcherson, Samantha Bee, Martin Short and John Cleese are among the performers lending their voices to the animated holiday film Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The popular touring group of magicians returns to Broadway for their fourth annual hollywood engagement with The Illusionists: Magic of the Holidays. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Ofra Bloch's documentary Afterward deals with the lingering trauma suffered by Israelis, Palestinians and Germans as a result of such events as the Holocaust and the Nakba. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Cevin Soling's documentary The Gilligan Manifesto explores the deeper themes and political allegories of the hit '60s sitcom Gilligan's Island. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin's documentary The Show's the Thing profiles the promoters who pioneered the rock concert business. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin's documentary The Providers profiles three medical practitioners serving indigent patients in rural New Mexico. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck