Welcome to Scheck on the Arts
Welcome to this destination for reviews, news
and musings on Theater, Film and Culture (Music,
Cabaret, Books and more) by veteran arts writer
and New York Post/Hollywood Reporter
critic Frank Scheck.
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Jun 9th
A designer drug causes its users to become violent in Urge, the new thriller featuring Pierce Brosnan. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Christopher Duddy's documentary/concert film It's So Easy and Other Lies is based on the memoir by Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Jun 7th
Beth Behrs of 2 Broke Girls stars in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Halley Feiffer's caustic comedy about two mismatched people who meet in their mothers' shared hospital room. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal's immersive documentary Gurukulam depicts day-to-day life in an Indian ashram. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Jun 7th
Family tensions escalate after a matriarch suffers a stroke in War, the latest provocative drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of An Octoroon and Gloria. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Mark Strong plays an astronaut on an ill-fated mission to Mars in the sci-fi thriller Approaching the Unknown. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck
Monday, June 6, 206
Jun 5th
Victor Kanefsky's documentary Art Bastard presents an intimate portrait of the iconoclastic artist Robert Cenedella. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover star, sort of, in the dystopian sci-fi thriller Andron. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Friday, June 3, 2016
Jun 3rd
James Demo's documentary The Peacemaker profiles a celebrated peace negotiator who has had less success taming his inner demons. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently showcased at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, click here.
A public relations expert working for an international aid organization succumbs to the lures of drugs and sex in the German film drama The Weather Inside. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck