Scheck on the Arts

Jon Stewart hilariously riffed about the election in the benefit show Stand Up for Heroes, also featuring Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, and Bruce Springsteen. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the event, click here.

Tom Donahue's documentary Thank You for Your Service exposes the appalling lack of health care for veterans. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Anthony Baxter's You've Been Trumped Too is a sequel to his 2011 documentary about the GOP candidate's clashes with Scottish citizens while building a luxury golf course. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The harrowing documentary The Uncondemned recounts the story of the landmark legal case that resulted in the prosecution of rape as a war crime for the first time. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Rosie Stapel's documentary Portrait of a Garden chronicles the efforts to two Dutch men tending to a "kitchen garden" that dates back to 1630. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Today's posting features two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently shown at the New York Film Festival:

Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time features footage from hundreds of silent films discovered in a Yukon Territory landfill. To read my review, click here.

Gaston Solnicki's debut narrative feature Kekszakallu depicts the day-to-day lives of several young Argentine women. To read my review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Trump Tower Live, the Trump campaign's new live talk show presented nightly on Facebook, is lamer than the lamest lamestream media. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the show, click here.

-----Frank Scheck