Scheck on the Arts

Mel Brooks and Sarah Silverman are among the many well-known commentators in The Last Laugh, Ferne Pearlstein's documentary exploring taboos in comedy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Sylvie Rakob's documentary Love Thy Nature examines our deteriorating relationship with the natural world. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Kevin Smith is among the notable directors contributing to the horror anthology film Holidays. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Eddie Murphy plays a rare dramatic role in Bruce Beresford's Mr. Church, about a man hired to cook for a dying woman and her young daughter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

The new anthology film Madly features six short films about romance and sex by international directors. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Mexican star Omar Chaparro plays a cop who teams up with a teenage computer hacker in the action-buddy comedy Compadres. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Michael Levine's documentary Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream relates the history of the venerable matzo company that lasted for over a century in NYC's Lower East Side. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The documentary Keep Quiet tells the amazing story of a notorious anti-Semite who discovers his Jewish origins. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently given its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

A Denver computer repairman enlists a pair of indie filmmakers to make a movie about him in the documentary/fiction hybrid Actor Martinez. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The documentary Factory Complex features interviews with South Korean workers who describe their oppressive working conditions. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Here are three of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films featured at the Tribeca Film Festival:

Katie Holmes stars in All We Had, her directorial debut about a mother and daughter struggling to survive financially. To read my review, click here.

Adam Nimoy's documentary For the Love of Spock, celebrating his father's life and achievements, concentrates on the legacy of his iconic character. To read my review, click here.

Jason Sudeikis plays a grieving widower who forms a friendship with a homeless teen in the New Orleans-set drama The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, also starring Jessica Biel and Maisie Williams. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck