Scheck on the Arts

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are currently starring on Broadway in revivals of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land. To read my reviews of these shows being performed in repertory, click here.

Frank Scheck

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter film reviews from the Doc NYC festival:

I Learn America chronicles the travails of five immigrant students at Brooklyn's International High School at Lafayette. To read my review, click here.

We Always Lie to Strangers examines Branson, Mo. through the eyes of several of its colorful performers. To read my review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Robert Mays' gripping documentary Kids for Cash chronicles a horrifying juvenile court scandal involving two corrupt Pennsylvania judges. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The Dark Matter of Love is a documentary about the complex emotional dynamics involved in an American couple's adoption of three Russian children. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

The indie film drama The Fall of 1980 depicts the emotion-charged reunion of a group of millennial generation friends. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The documentary Revenge of the Mekons chronicles the decades-long career of the genre defying cult band. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The rescue of dozens of lions from appalling conditions in Bolivian circuses is the subject of the documentary Lion Ark. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The documentary The Great Fallacy presents a dire portrait of the troubled political, economic and social conditions of Puerto Rico. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck