Scheck on the Arts

Viko Nikci's documentary Coming Home concerns a wrongly convicted ex-con's effort to resume his life. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Nguyen Thi Tham's documentary Madam Phung's Last Journey profiles the cros-dress leader of an itinerant troupe of carnival performers in rural Vietnam. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Veteran Hollywood director Joel Schumacher stages Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, a darkly comic chiller about suburban teenager obsessed with a zombie-hunting, virtual-reality game. To read my Hollywood Reporter theater review, click here.

A group of squatters in a dilapidated Lower East Side apartment building becomes infected with a zombie-like virus in the horror film Condemned. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

After a somber start due to the terrorist attacks in Paris, Saturday night's Democratic debate quickly got combative. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the event, click here.

Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre is presenting a revival of Incident at Vichy, Arthur Miller's rarely performed 1964 one-act play set in a Nazi detention center. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Harriet Walter plays the title role in the Donmar Warehouse's all-female production of Henry IV, set in a women's prison. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Robert De Niro and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star in Heist, a thriller about a casino robbery gone awry. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Shear Madness, the interactive comic whodunnit set in a hair salon, finally arrives in NYC after running for decades in such cities as Boston and Washington, D.C. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Vacationing American hikers get into trouble when one of them steps on a landmine in Levan Bahkia's twisty thriller Landmine Goes Click. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck