Scheck on the Arts

A widowed father suffering from schizophrenia suspects his young son may be demonically possessed in Pearry Reginald Teo's horror film The Assent. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Nicola Alice Hens' documentary Chichinette: The Accidental Spy recounts the story of 98-year-old Marthe Cohn, who joined the French Resistance during World War II. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Damian McGinty of Glee and the vocal group Celtic Thunder plays a young man who becomes a singing shopping-mall Santa while fleeing from gangsters in the Yuletide-themed comedy Santa Fake. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Here's the Hollywood Reporter's list of the ten worst films of the year, for which I wrote the introduction. To read, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Lucy Fry plays a young woman searching for her friend who mysteriously vanished in the Southwest desert in Irish filmmaker Alexandra McGuinness' atmospheric thriller She's Missing. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Cirque du Soleil presents 'Twas the Night Before..., their first Christmas-themed show, inspired by Clement Clarke Moore's classic poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas and featuring an array of acrobatic and aerial acts. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A unit of white soldiers is ordered to rescue an African-American regiment trapped behind enemy lines in Steven Luke's World War I thriller The Great War. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck