Scheck on the Arts

Michael Collins' documentary Almost Sunrise explores the concept of "Moral Injury" as it relates to war veterans suffering from PTSD. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently screened at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers) plays a reformed gunslinger called back into action when his daughter is kidnapped in the old-fashioned Western drama Traded. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The Italian bio-pic Call Me Francesco largely concentrates on the early years of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later to become Pope Francis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Janina Quint's documentary Germans & Jews examines their complicated relationship in modern-day Germany. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A troubled teenager is unmercifully bullied in Felix Thompson's directorial debut, King Jack. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Matthew Broderick stars in Shining City, the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Conor McPherson's 2004 drama about unmoored Dubliners. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Veteran Italian actress Laura Morante plays a twice-divorced woman struggling to regain her self-confidence in Solo, the comedy which she also directed and co-scripted. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently featured at the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A designer drug causes its users to become violent in Urge, the new thriller featuring Pierce Brosnan. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Christopher Duddy's documentary/concert film It's So Easy and Other Lies is based on the memoir by Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck