Movies
Video Travel Diary: A Road Trip Across Israel
Pin It Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg of The Atlantic captures the essence of this fast-paced emotional travel diary of Israel, “This IsReal”.  In her subsequent interview of the director, Filmmaker Matthew Brown brings... Read More »
Review: Making the Crooked Straight
One can't help be inspired by the story of Dr. Hodes, who for literally a couple of dollars a day in medication and treatment is saving untold numbers of lives Read More »
“Holy Land Hardball”
Pin It The final documentary featured in this year’s SnagFilms SummerFest is “Holy Land Hardball.” The film follows the dubious formation of the Israel Baseball League (IBL) by Larry Baras,... Read More »
James Bond, Jabotinsky and the Holocaust
Pin It By Guest author Moshe Phillips A new motion picture in which James Bond fights Nazis and saves Jews during the Holocaust is scheduled for release this Chanukah season.... Read More »
Waltz with Bashir: A non-review
Pin It A challenge is to talk about a movie without divulging any information about said movie. That is the problem with “Waltz with Bashir”, an animated movie I saw... Read More »
What Jews Should Know About Brazil’s Entry From This Year’s Academy Awards
Pin It There was a lot of buzz around this year’s Academy Awards. One of the films that was generating a significant amount of buzz because of its unusualness was... Read More »
Hey Lebowski Fest, I’m Shomer Effing Shabbos
Pin It This week in Chicago, fans of the Academy Award Winning Coen Brothers will gather to pay homage to what is arguably their most popular film. Lebowski Fest, a... Read More »
God Bless Atheists, or, How to Find Faith in Colorful Moving Pictures
Pin It Many television shows seem to have a heavy religious component. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent slew of science fiction that has invaded the airwaves... Read More »
Oscar Award Winning Coen Brothers Pick Their Next Film
Pin It Though the Coen brothers have made their careers by writing and directing movies, their recent film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is the work... Read More »
Spielberg’s Advisory Message to Beijing
Pin It The term “Never Again†is not just empty rhetoric for Steven Spielberg. Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of “Schindler’s List†and “Munichâ€, withdrew as an artistic adviser to the... Read More »
Religion vs Theology, Or, The Silver Screen vs The Written Word
Pin It Last night, while I was eating dinner, my roommate turned on Eretz Nehederet (A Wonderful Country). I watched, laughed, and laughed some more. But immediately after the program... Read More »
Trembling
Pin It I recently came across a review for the 2001 movie, “Trembling Before G-d.” For those of you who are not familiar with it, the movie tells the story... Read More »
Cloverfield: The Modern Day Yetzer Harah
Pin It If the government ever issues a special dispensation permitting me to shiv one Hollywood personality, it would unquestionably be JJ Abrams because of what he has done to... Read More »
