Scheck on the Arts

Uma Thurman plays a mysterious headmistress in Down a Dark Hall, Rodrigo Cortes' supernatural thriller based on Lois Duncan's gothic YA novel. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Two estranged siblings reconnect after the deaths of their parents in Josh Crockett's comedy/drama Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Hell hath no fury like Omarosa scorned, as the fired White House employee is making clear on the publicity tour supporting her new book Unhinged. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Megumi Sasaki's documentary A Whale of a Tale explores the aftermath of the Oscar-winning film The Cove on the Japanese town of Taiji from the fishermen's point of view. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

An unemployed stockbroker reunites his old high school band in Gettin' My Band Back Together, a rare Broadway musical not based on a pre-existing property. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

A teenage girl whose cancer goes into remission tries to keep the news a secret from her friends in the dramedy Hope Springs Eternal. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Filmmaker Spike Lee talked about race relations, the president and his new film BlacKKKlansman during a wide-ranging TimesTalks conversation with columnist Charles Blow. To read my Hollywood Reporter story, click here.

A newlywed bride discovers that her husband is harboring a horrific secret in Sebastian Gutierrez's sci-fi horror film Elizabeth Harvest. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck