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, April 7,2016
Apr 6th
Melissa McCarthy plays a business tycoon fallen on hard times in The Boss, a raunchy comedy directed by her husband, Ben Falcone. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Apr 6th
Ross Lipman's "kino-essay" Notfilm documents the making of the 1965 short Film, written by Samuel Beckett and starring Buster Keaton. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
'40s-era film noir is spoofed in Kill Me Deadly, Barrett Sanders' comedy based on Bill Robens' stage play. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Apr 5th
The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic production King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II and Henry V, click here.
A group of old friends gather together to host a wake in Antlia Pneumatica, Anne Washburn's supernatural-tinged drama featuring Annie Parisse and Rob Campbell. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the Off-Broadway play, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Monday, April 4, 2016
Apr 4th
Andrew Wakefield's controversial documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, receiving a hurried theatrical release after being bumped from the Tribeca Film Festival, attempts to prove the link between the MMR vaccine and autism. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Friday, April 1, 2016
Apr 1st
A schoolteacher goes on trial for mentioning Jesus in her classroom in God's Not Dead 2, the sequel to the hit 2014 faith-based film. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
A young Hasidic yashiva student has a dramatic personality change after a near-death experience in the Israeli film Tikkun. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck