Scheck on the Arts

The documentary I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story profiles the man who's inhabited the giant bird costume on Sesame Street for forty-five years. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Dolph Lundgren plays a cop intent on revenge against the sex traffickers who murdered his family in the action thriller Skin Trade. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Daisy Asquith's documentary After the Dance concerns her and her mother's investigation into a family secret. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently showcased at the Stranger Than Fiction film festival, click here.

Blackbird is a coming-of-age tale about a young Southern choir boy struggling with his sexuality. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Lemon Anderson's poetical drama ToasT depicts the build-up of tensions that led to the 1971 Attica prison riot. To read my New York Post review of the Off-Broadway play, click here.

Richard Dreyfuss and Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany co-star in the road trip film comedy Cas & Dylan. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Dan Lauria of  The WonderYears fame stars in his playwriting debut Dinner with the Boys, a black comedy about a pair of hitmen facing retribution from their mob bosses. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Sean Bean plays an alcoholic boxer struggling for spiritual redemption in the film Any Day, a melodrama with religious undertones. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently showcased at Toronto's Hot Docs festival:

Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands' Uncertain chronicles the lives of three troubled inhabitants of Uncertain, Texas, pop. 94. To read my review, click here.

Amber Fares' Speed Sisters profiles the members of the Middle East's first all-female car racing team. To read my review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck