Scheck on the Arts

Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski star in Neil LaBute's new play The Way We Get By, about the aftermath of a drunken hook-up. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Youngsters living in NYC's foster care system wrote and star in the gritty urban film drama Know How. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Anne Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick, about the employees of a run-down Massachusetts movie theater, has reopened in a commercial Off-Broadway engagement with its original cast. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The post-Civil War drama Echoes of War concerns a violent conflict between two Southern clans. To read my Hollywood Rep0rter film review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The religious-themed drama Where Hope Grows concerns the redemptive friendship between an alcoholic ex-baseball player and a young man with Down syndrome. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The globe-trotting documentary Shake the Dust profiles the hip-hop culture in such countries as Uganda, Cambodia Yemen and Colombia. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The family members of a recently deceased teenage girl address their emotional issues directly to the camera in the experimental film drama Childless. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jean-Claude Van Damme, the "Muscles From Brussels," goes after the bad guys who stole his kidney in his new action film Pound of Flesh. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Ed Pincus and Lucia Small's documentary One Cut, One Life chronicles the repercussions of him being diagnosed with a terminal illness. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Sean Astin and Chris Mulkey star in The Surface, an existential thriller about two men trapped on a small boat adrift in Lake Michigan. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck