Film & TV
How ‘BlackkKlansman’ Abandons Crucial Conversation About Race and Complicity
“BlackkKlansman” is a film that was made to keep white people comfortable.
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“American History X” Director Tony Kaye’s Newest Film Will Star A Robot
Giving a robot a screen credit over a human actor is likely to cause a kerfuffle.
“Memoir Of War” Brings Occupied France To Life
More than losing her husband, the real risk for Marguerite is a loss of herself, her country and the tether she has to reality.
Yes, Sci-Fi Has An Anti-Semitism Problem — But Not The One You Think
The worst crime of any alien minstrel show is a lack of imagination in a space that should be a bastion of new — never final — frontiers
After Pepsi Takeover, Sodastream CEO Says He’ll Keep Speaking His Mind
Sodastream is still not ready to play nice, according to their CEO’s most recent statement.
The Secret Jewish History Of Robert De Niro
De Niro has made a specialty of playing Jews nearly as often as he has Italians
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A Most Unnatural Experiment With Nature And Nurture
How could Jews — of all people — orchestrate so chilling an experiment on their own infants?
This Was The End Of Francois Truffaut’s Innocence
A filmmaker who discovered his Jewish ancestry only in adulthood, Truffaut here recalls Primo Levi.
Can Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ Solve a 44-Year Old Murder? Stephen King’s Son Thinks So.
The murdered woman’s identity, like that of her killer, remain a mystery. Locally she is known simply as the Lady in the Dunes.
As Robert Redford Retires, Revisiting His Most Jewish Moments
He romanced Barbra Streisand, served as Paul Newman’s outlaw sidekick and played Bob Woodward to Dustin Hoffman’s Carl Bernstein.
New York Film Festival To Feature Films From Coen Brothers, Frederick Wiseman
This year’s New York Film Festival will mark a major moment for Jewish film.
