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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.
September 6, 2021
Sep 6th
Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews from the Telluride Film Festival:
Liz Garbus' documentary Becoming Cousteau chronicles the life and career of the filmmaker-explorer who introduced millions of viewers to teeming life beneath the sea. To read my review, click here.
The Rescue, the new documentary by the makers of Free Solo and Meru, relates the story of the heroic efforts of a team of cave divers to save trapped children in a Thai cave. To read my review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck
September 3, 2021
Sep 3rd
Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza star in Best Sellers, Lina Roessier's comedy about a reclusive, cantankerous novelist who embarks on a publicity tour with his desperate publisher. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
September 2, 2021
Sep 2nd
Shea Whigham plays a social worker to tries to protect a client from her abusive ex-con husband in the thriller The Gateway, also featuring Olivia Munn and Bruce Dern. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck
August 26, 2021
Aug 26th
Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi's documentary My Childhood, My Country chronicles the life of an Afghan youth over two decades. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
August 24, 2022
Aug 24th
Jason Momoa and Isabela Merced star in the Netflix thriller Sweet Girl, about a man seeking revenge on the pharmaceutical company that denied his desperately ill wife a life saving medication. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck