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The Schmooze An Erotic Keira Knightley Movie About Post-WWII Germany? Uh Oh.
If two people are hot and white enough, can we get past the fact that one of them is a Nazi-bystander and just enjoy watching them have sex? Yes! A trailer for the movie “The Aftermath” emphatically answers. Based on the book of the same title by Rhidian Brook, “The Aftermath” follows the true story…
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Film & TV Ottessa Moshfegh Fangirled Out At Whoopi Goldberg’s House
Author Ottessa Moshfegh has defied the old warning, “never meet your heroes.” She wasn’t disappointed. Those who’ve read Moshfegh’s second novel, 2018’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” won’t have much trouble guessing who that hero is. Like her book’s unnamed protagonist, who spends a year fettered to her bed self-prescribing medication and binging films…
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The Schmooze The ‘Wicked’ Musical Movie Adaptation Is Finally Happening
Something has changed within me. What is this feeling, so sudden and new? The smash Broadway musical “Wicked” is finally, finally going to be a big-budget Hollywood movie, produced by Universal pictures for December 2021. Thank goodness! When “Wicked,” the untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West (and all that happened before “Dorothy…
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Fast Forward Producer Jason Blum Blasts Trump, Booed Off Stage At LA Israel Film Festival
(JTA) — Jewish producer Jason Blum was booed and had to be physically removed from the stage of the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles after he accused President Trump of fomenting rising anti-Semitism in the United States. Blum was onstage at the Steve Tisch Cinema Center, Saban Theater on Tuesday evening being honored with the…
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The Schmooze “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is Coming to the Big Screen 50 Years Later
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is becoming a movie and our sixth grade selves are clutching our Lisa Frank stickers and the Silly Bandz coiled around our wrists in joyous celebration. The endearingly raw young adult novel was released in an age when the concept of accumulating a certain amount of likes on…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot Will Voice A Race Car Driver In Disney’s ‘Wreck It Ralph 2’
Disney fans, meet the newest character on the block: she’s not a princess, she’s a leather-wearing race car driver. Gal Gadot is slated to star in Disney’s “Ralph Breaks The Internet”, the sequel to the box office hit, “Wreck It Ralph”. She will provide her voice for the character Shank in the upcoming movie. Shank…
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The Schmooze Maggie Gyllenhaal is Deranged In Remake of Israeli Thriller
I wouldn’t give an apple to this teacher. Maggie Gyllenhaal brings every parent’s nightmare to life in the disturbing trailer for the upcoming Netflix film “The Kindergarten Teacher”. Gyllenhaal plays a troubled educator who latches onto a kindergarten student upon listening to him stammer out brilliant poetry. She immediately pegs the little boy as “a…
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Film & TV 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. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which hosts the 56-year old festival, announced the festival’s main slate lineup on August 7. Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, 88-year old documentarian Frederick Wiseman and visual artist Julian Schnabel are on the bill…
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