Scheck on the Arts

A fashion model becomes obsessed with a serial killer who posts videos of his murders on the dark web in Pascal Plante's disturbing psychological thriller Red Rooms. To read my Hollywood Reporter of the film that recently premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, click here. 

------Frank Scheck

A widow takes matters into her own hands after falling victim to a telephone scammer in Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev's social injustice thriller Blaga's Lessons. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently showcased at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, click here.

Patrick Wilson helms and stars in Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth installment of the horror franchise and a sequel to 2013's Insidious: Chapter 2. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A young Iranian gets involved in black market caviar smuggling to earn the cash he needs for his marriage in Behrooz Karamizade's searing drama Empty Nets, premiering at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Cyril Aris' documentary Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano chronicles the travails of a production company trying to make a movie in Lebanon, beset by obstacles in the wake of the devastating 2020 Port of Beirut explosion.To read my Hollywood Reporter of the film receiving its world premiere at Karlovy Vary, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Oscar-winning actor, Alan Arkin, who died at the age of 89, turned irascibility into an art form — and made it seem like the most natural and intelligent response to a world gone mad. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Appreciation, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Maika Monroe, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jamie Foxx star in God is a Bullet, Nick Cassavetes' thriller about a cop who goes undercover in a murderous cult to find his kidnapped daughter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck