Scheck on the Arts

A serial killer gets very upset about a Black Friday sale in Thanksgiving, a throwback slasher pic from Hostel director Eli Roth. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks deliver lived-in chemistry in the new sturdy revival of Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece Waiting for Godot. To read my New York Stage Review review of the production at Theatre for a New Audience, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Danny DeVito stars in Theresa Rebeck's play I Need That, about a compulsive hoarder, also featuring his daughter Lucy DeVito and Ray Anthony Thomas. To read my New York Stage Review review of the play receiving its world premiere by the Roundabout Theatre Company, click here.

John Turturro plays the licentious former puppeteer in this stage adaptation of Philip Roth's Sabbath Theater, which he co-wrote, also featuring Elizabeth Marvel and Jason Kravits. To read my New York Stage Review review of the play being presented by The New Group, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Meg Ryan toplines and directs What Happens Later, a slightly surreal romantic comedy-drama about two former lovers stuck together in an airport during a winter storm. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film also starring David Duchovny, click here.

Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn star in The Marsh King's Daughter, Neil Burger's screen adaptation of a best-selling novel about a woman whose father kidnapped her mother decades earlier. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck