Scheck on the Arts

Thor star Chris Hemsworth is back for another thrill-ride adventure as mercenary Tyler Rake in Extraction 2, the follow-up to the hugely popular 2020 Netflix action film. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Illusionist Steve Cuiffo collaborates with playwright Lucas Hnath for A Simulacrum, one-man show deconstructing magic. To read my New York Stage Review review of the show receiving its world premiere at Atlantic Theater Company, click here.

Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who spent 23 years as a member of the U.K. parliament before returning to Broadway and winning a Tony Award in 2018, has died. To read my Hollywood Reporter tribute, click here.

A knight falsely accused of murdering his queen finds an unlikely, shapeshifting ally in Nimona, a Netflix animated movie based on ND Stevenson’s acclaimed graphic novel and starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Riz Ahmed. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Ariana DeBose and Chris Messina star in I.S.S., a tense thriller about warring astronauts also featuring John Gallagher Jr. To read my Hollywood Reporter of the film receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Sam Pollard's documentary The League, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicles the history and importance of Black baseball players before the integration of the sport in the 1940s. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck