Scheck on the Arts

Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers) plays a reformed gunslinger called back into action when his daughter is kidnapped in the old-fashioned Western drama Traded. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The Italian bio-pic Call Me Francesco largely concentrates on the early years of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later to become Pope Francis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Janina Quint's documentary Germans & Jews examines their complicated relationship in modern-day Germany. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A troubled teenager is unmercifully bullied in Felix Thompson's directorial debut, King Jack. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Matthew Broderick stars in Shining City, the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Conor McPherson's 2004 drama about unmoored Dubliners. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Veteran Italian actress Laura Morante plays a twice-divorced woman struggling to regain her self-confidence in Solo, the comedy which she also directed and co-scripted. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently featured at the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A designer drug causes its users to become violent in Urge, the new thriller featuring Pierce Brosnan. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Christopher Duddy's documentary/concert film It's So Easy and Other Lies is based on the memoir by Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Beth Behrs of 2 Broke Girls stars in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Halley Feiffer's caustic comedy about two mismatched people who meet in their mothers' shared hospital room. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal's immersive documentary Gurukulam depicts day-to-day life in an Indian ashram. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck