Scheck on the Arts

Mark Duplass and Ray Romano play misfit friends who go on a road trip after one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer in the Netflix dramedy Paddleton. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film that received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, click here.

Henrik Georgsson's documentary Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire delivers a biographical portrait of the author of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy who spent much of his career investigating right-wing political organizations. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently featured at the Sundance Film Festival, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano star in the new Broadway revival of True West, Sam Shepard's  1980 about two warring brothers. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Tom Arnold and Sean Astin star in Dead Ant, Ron Carlson's campy horror comedy about giant ants terrorizing aging rockers in the California desert. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

An inmate manipulates a female prison guard into helping him escape in Jon Kauffman's indie drama Heartlock. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Comedian Colin Quinn brings his cutting wit and keen observations to the state of our currently fractured union in his latest one-man show Red State Blue State. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Ben Niles' documentary The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness recounts the story of the popular sibling classical music group whose female members were sexually abused by their father. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Author/humorist Calvin Trillin adapts About Alice, his best-selling 2006 memoir about his relationship with his late wife, in an off-Broadway premiere presented by Theatre for a New Audience. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck