Scheck on the Arts

Lois Smith plays an elderly woman coping with failing health with the help of an avatar of her late husband in Jordan Harrison's futuristic drama Marjorie Prime. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Stephen Dorff plays a hard-partying slacker with telekinetic powers in Nick Love's offbeat superhero dramedy American Hero. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Jackie Hoffman and John Epperson (better known as "Lypsinka") star in Once Upon a Mattress, the off-Broadway revival of Mary Rodgers' venerable musical based on "The Princess and the Pea." To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Eryk Rocha's impressionistic documentary Sunday Ball captures the action of a championship soccer match between two amateur teams representing Brazilian favelas. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play siblings who throw a blowout bash in their childhood home in Sisters, the raucous new comedy scripted by veteran Saturday Night Live writer Paula Pell. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Ryan Wise's documentary I Am Thor chronicles the colorful career of the bodybuilder/rocker/actor. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Bryan Greenberg plays an irresponsible man trying to turn his life around in Stephen Suettinger's directorial debut, A Year and Change. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck