Scheck on the Arts

Eddie Murphy plays a rare dramatic role in Bruce Beresford's Mr. Church, about a man hired to cook for a dying woman and her young daughter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

The new anthology film Madly features six short films about romance and sex by international directors. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Mexican star Omar Chaparro plays a cop who teams up with a teenage computer hacker in the action-buddy comedy Compadres. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Michael Levine's documentary Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream relates the history of the venerable matzo company that lasted for over a century in NYC's Lower East Side. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The documentary Keep Quiet tells the amazing story of a notorious anti-Semite who discovers his Jewish origins. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently given its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

A Denver computer repairman enlists a pair of indie filmmakers to make a movie about him in the documentary/fiction hybrid Actor Martinez. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The documentary Factory Complex features interviews with South Korean workers who describe their oppressive working conditions. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Here are three of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films featured at the Tribeca Film Festival:

Katie Holmes stars in All We Had, her directorial debut about a mother and daughter struggling to survive financially. To read my review, click here.

Adam Nimoy's documentary For the Love of Spock, celebrating his father's life and achievements, concentrates on the legacy of his iconic character. To read my review, click here.

Jason Sudeikis plays a grieving widower who forms a friendship with a homeless teen in the New Orleans-set drama The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, also starring Jessica Biel and Maisie Williams. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey play the title roles in Elvis & Nixon, the wickedly satirical comedy about the meeting between the two iconic figures in the Oval Office. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Michael Shannon also stars in Wolves, Bart Freundlich's drama about a high school basketball star coping with family problems. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jon Stewart is the executive producer of the documentary After Spring, focusing on the people living in Zaatari, the world's largest camp for Syrian refugees. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck