Scheck on the Arts

CNN broadcast a town hall event, Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action, in which the survivors, friends and loved ones of the horrific mass shooting confronted politicians and a spokeswoman for the NRA. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Katie Finneran, Robert Sean Leonard and Paul Sparks star Edward Allbee's At Home at the Zoo, a double-bill of his classic one-act The Zoo Story and its prequel, Homelife, written nearly fifty years later. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Zach Grenier (The Good Wife) appear in Kings, Sarah Burgess' new drama set in the world of Washington, D.C. politicians and lobbyists. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Susanna Styron's documentary Out of My Head explores the neurological disorder known as migraine, which afflicts nearly a billion people worldwide. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

A young servant enters into an ill-fated affair with her employer in The Housemaid, Derek Nguyen's horror film set in 1953 French Indochina. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

The familiar biblical tale is retold in Samson, the latest effort the faith-based oriented studio Pure Flix. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays a dying woman trying to find a new romantic partner for her fiance in Irreplaceable You, a Netflix tearjerker also featuring Christopher Walken, Michiel Huisman, Steve Coogan and Kate McKinnon. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Maika Monroe plays a young woman trying to solve the mystery of her parents' murder in The Scent of Rain and Lightning, Blake Robbins' thriller based on the novel by Nancy Pickard. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck