Scheck on the Arts

This year's crop of Oscar-nominated animated short films include a Pixar title and an animated Kobe Bryant. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of 2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation, click here.

Real-life events inspired three of the powerful nominees for the Oscar for live-action short film. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of 2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Broadway talents including Vanessa Williams, Bebe Neuwirth, Judy Kuhn, Carolee Carmello, Reed Birney and Marc Kudisch appear in the Encores! 25th anniversary production Hey, Look Me Over! To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, describes her experiences being treated for uterine cancer in In the Body of the World, her new solo piece based on her memoir. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens star in Permission, Brian Crano's comedy/drama about a couple who decide to find other lovers. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Brie Larson plays a young scientist who travels to India in Basmati Blues, Danny Baron's movie musical that has spent years sitting on the shelf. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Jeff Unay's documentary The Cage Fighter profiles an aging mixed martial arts fighter struggling with personal and physical issues. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Douglas Hodge, Marin Mazzie, John Glover and Marsha Mason star in Fire and Air, Terrence McNally's play about the relationship between Ballets Russes impresario Sergei Diaghilev and famed dancer Vaslav Nijinksy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jason Momoa, soon to be seen in Aquaman, stars in Braven, Lin Oedling's action thriller aboout a man and his elderly father desperately battling a gang of drug traffickers. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Toby Sebastian plays a thinly disguised Andrea Bocelli in The Music of Silence, Michael Radford's biopic based on the opera singer's autobiography. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck