Category: "Hollywood Reporter"
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
May 17th
Ethan Peck, son of Gregory, stars in The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, a horror film riff on the Brothers Grimm classic. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Robbers unwittingly break into the home of a serial killer in Viet Nguyen's horror comedy Crush the Skull. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Monday, May 16, 2016
May 16th
Olivia Wilde directed an all-star cast in a reading of Woody Allen's screenplay Hannah and Her Sisters. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the sold-out Live Read event, click here.
Thomas Kail (Hamilton) directes Daphne's Dive, the new drama from Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegria Hudes tracking the patrons of a Philadelphia bar over nearly two decades. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
--------Frank Scheck
Friday, May 13, 2016
May 13th
Melissa Errico stars in the Encores production of Do I Hear a Waltz?, the 1965 Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim musical based on the Arthur Laurents play that also inspired David Lean's classic 1955 film Summertime. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Yaniv Rokah's documentary Queen Mimi profiles a homeless woman known as "The Queen of Santa Monica." To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Thursday, May 12, 2016
May 12th
The documentary The Professor: Tai Chi's Journey West pays tribute to the Chinese master credited with popularizing the martial art in America. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck
Wednesday, May 11,2016
May 10th
Erez Laufer's documentary Rabin in His Own Words chronicles the life and career of the Israeli prime minister. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
In his harrowing documentary Credit for Murder, Israeli filmmaker Vladi Antonevicz infiltrates Russian neo-Nazi groups to investigate a horrific double murder. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently screened at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, click here.
-----Frank Scheck