Scheck on the Arts

Jim Parsons plays the Almighty, delivering a new set of Ten Commandments, in An Act of God, former Daily Show head writer David Javerbaum's Broadway comedy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The legendary rock band the Who are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their debut album with an extensive North American tour. To read my Hollywood Reporter of their show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently shown at the Soho International Film Festival:

Titus Heckel's debut feature With Child concerns a widowed father struggling to make a new life for himself and his infant daughter. To read my review, click here.

A desperately ill lawyer travels to Italy in the hope that a miraculous tree can heal him in Ante Novakovic's religious-themed drama Leaves of the Tree. To read my review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence), the final entry in director Tom Six's horror film trilogy, ups the ante by expanding its titular creation into hundreds of victims. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Veteran action star Steven Seagal plays a mercenary tackling a human trafficking ring in his new big screen effort Absolution. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Area 51, director Oren Peli's long-delayed follow-up to his smash hit Paranormal Activity, concerns three friends who break into the government facility. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The documentary Groundswell Rising chronicles the rise of grassroots opposition to the controversial form of energy extraction known as fracking. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck