Scheck on the Arts

Make Believe, the latest effort from playwright Bess Wohl, author of Small Mouth Sounds, explores the lingering effects of a traumatic event on the lives of four young children. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A couple on their first date gets locked inside a movie theater in Anthony Sabet's romantic comedy One Last Night. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Daniel Krikke's documentary Scared of Revolution provides a deeply intimate portrait of Umar Bin Hassan of the highly influential spoken-word group The Last Poets. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

John Buffalo Mailer and Eden Epstein play two strangers who reveal painful secrets about their past in Jennifer Gelfer's indie drama The Second Sun. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Martin Freeman plays a man who suffers from a form of narcolepsy that causes him to pass out when he experiences happiness in Jason Winer's romantic comedy Ode to Joy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Jim Steinman's show Bat Out of Hell -- The Musical, based on his mega-selling albums with Meat Loaf, has finally arrived in New York after its national tour was abruptly cancelled. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The spirit of a murdered man enters his friends' bodies in Robi Michael's supernatural thriller Every Time I Die. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

An impoverished Brazilian teenager struggles for survival after the death of his mother in Alexandre Moratto's debut feature Socrates. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck