“Pitch Perfect 3” featured a medley of songs by “artists you didn’t know were Jewish”
In an attempt to diversify, the academy extended membership invitations to 774 people this year.
There’s nothing like a little Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” to get you through some rough times.
Will Steinfeld win Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her performance in “The Edge of Seventeen,” cementing her transition from astonishing newcomer to bona fide Hollywood star?
From “Transparent” to Natalie Portman, we rounded up all of the Jew-iest shows and Jewish actors to get a nod this year.
They’re young, making big waves and coming to a theatre near you. Meet the next class of young Jewish Hollywood.
Despite the reported confusion and last-minute panic caused by this year’s theme (the rich and famous apparently missed the boat on CBGB), the Met Gala red carpet was all glitz and glam for “Punk: Chaos to Couture.”
As with Henry Hathaway’s 1969 film, Joel and Ethan Coen’s remake of “True Grit” (which is really another, truer, adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel) follows a young girl in pursuit of her father’s killer. Played here by new recruit Hailee Steinfeld, the impossibly precocious Mattie Ross hires a surly, drunken, tough-as-nails federal marshal (Jeff Bridges) to help her track the horse thief (Josh Brolin) what gunned down her pappy. It’s a cut-and-dry revenge story, where good guys win and bad guys lose. It’s less a self-aware ode to the studio Western than an inheritor of its most simple and enduring charms. And it’s seductive. Deceptively so.