Scheck on the Arts

The Sisterhood of Night concerns a group of teenage girls caught up in a modern-day version of the Salem Witch Trials. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

Bollywood filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra's contemporary American western Broken Horses concerns two disparate brothers entwined with a vicious criminal. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Harrison Ford narrates the giant screen film Living in the Age of Airplanes which illustrates how air travel has dramatically changed our lives. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Freetown recounts the real-life tale of six African Mormon missionaries attempting to flee war-torn Liberia. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The film Desert Dancer tells the true-life story of dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who pursued his dreams of artistic expression despite persecution by the Iranian government. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Death of a Tree concerns a deeply religious middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of faith when he falls for a much younger woman. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The '80s-set crime drama Electric Slide tells the true-life tale of the "Gentleman Bank Robber" Eddie Dodson. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

A Lower East Side DJ finds trouble in the form of a beautiful femme fatale in the modern-day noir thriller The Girl is in Trouble. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The soft-spoken Hilary Mantel isn't someone you imagine spearheading a second Britsh invasion of America. But that's exactly what the two-time Man Brooker Prize-winning author has done with her books Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. To read my Hollywood Reporter interview with Mantel about the theatrical adaptation of her works being presented on Broadway by the Royal Shakespeare Company, click here.

Muta'Ali Muhammad's documentary Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee is a loving tribute to his grandparents, famed actors and social activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently showcased at BAM's New Voices in Black Cinema, click here.

-----Frank Scheck