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  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, March 3, 2016

Adam and Zack Khalil's documentary INAAT/SE uses the ancient Seven Fires Prophecy as a springboard to explore contemporary Native American culture and society. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film which recently world premiered at Doc Fortnight 2016, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Valerio Ruiz's documentary Behind the White Glasses chr0nicles the career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination for best director. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Beth B's documentary Call Her Applebroog profiles her mother, the famed artist Ida Applebroog. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film that recently received its world premiere at the Doc Fortnight film festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Caitlyn Jenner goes on a cross-country trip with her girlfriend, revealing that she's still a Republican and no longer plans on dating women, in the second-season premiere of E!'s reality show I Am Cait. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Monday, February 29, 2016

Trevor Nunn directs Christian Camargo in the Theater for a New Audience's production of  Pericles, Shakespeare's rarely performed late romance. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A teenage runaway cons her way into a job as a caregiver for an autistic child in Janet Grillo's drama Jack of the Red Hearts. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Friday, February 26, 2016

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz battered, but did not beat, Donald Trump in the latest contentious GOP debate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the event, click here.

An Egyptian god battles his vengeful uncle with the aid of a mortal in the fantasy-adventure film Gods of Egypt. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck