Scheck on the Arts

Stephen Adly Guirgis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Between Riverside and Crazy, explores the troubled lives of the residents and staffers of a halfway house in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, currently receiving its world premiere at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Tomasz Magierski's documentary Broken Dreams recounts the story of two teenage Jewish sisters struggling to survive the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A grieving father explores the phenomenon of false shared memories after the death of his young daughter in David Guy Levy's sci-fi thriller The Mandela Effect. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Miles Robbins and Patrick Schwarzenegger play a troubled young man and his possibly imaginary friend in Adam Egypt Mortimer's sci-fi thriller Daniel Isn't Real. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Nicolas Cage stars in Grand Isle, Stephen S. Campanelli's thriller about a couple who plays mind games with a stranded young man. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A man comes into conflict with local hoodlums when he returns to his remote outback hometown in Heath Davis' Australian crime thriller Locusts. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

A man receives a visit from a long-lost friend who asks for help in burying a body in Marc Hampson's thriller The Man in the Trunk. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Leslie Ann Coles' documentary Melody Makers chronicles the heyday years of the hugely influential British music magazine Melody Maker. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck