Scheck on the Arts

Jason Statham and Sylvester Stallone, along with several newcomers, star in Expend4bles, the fourth installment of the hit action movie franchise. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The Peasants, the sumptuously animated new film from DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, is an adaptation of a Nobel Prize-winning Polish novel. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film that received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Rebecca Gilman's new play Swing State, imported from Chicago's Goodman Theatre, concerns the troubling chain of events that occur after a toolbox and gun are stolen from a woman's barn. To read my New York Stage Review review of the play being performed at the Minetta Lane Theatre, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films premiering at Germany's Oldenburg International Film Festival:

Eva Hassmann stars in her directorial debut Willie and Me, playing a German woman who travels to America to see her idol Willie Nelson's farewell concert. To read my review, click here. 

Takayuki Hayashi's debut feature From Dawn Till Noon on the Sea revolves around three troubled souls and the aftermath of a kidnapping.To read my review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Eva Hassmann stars in Willie and Me, her directorial debut, playing a German woman who travels to America to see her idol Willie Nelson's farewell concert. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film receiving its world premiere at the Olderburg International Film Festival, click here.

-------Frank Scheck