film‘A few months after my release from prison I was back on the crystal meth’: meet Britain’s unlikeliest drug dealerA film about a north London grandfather caught with the Metropolitan Police’s largest-ever crystal meth haul is out this weekBy Nicole Lampert7 min read
Los AngelesHollywood museum to revise exhibit on Jewish history following backlash over negative portrayals of Jews‘Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital’ has drawn criticism from industry activists for its reportedly negative portrayal of Jewish Hollywood pioneersBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
filmDead Don’t Hurt review: Can you love the son of a man who raped your wife?By John Nathan2 min read
FilmFilm review: A House in Jerusalem ‘Where this film flounders is in its depiction of a British Jewish family’By John Nathan2 min read
FilmA boy – now 93 – tells his story of incredible survival hiding from the Nazis in the forestNow a new film is telling Maxwell Smart’s storyBy James Mottram6 min read
filmMade In England review: an ode to the art of making great filmsFew documentaries have more to say about filmmaking than this one about Powell and PressburgerBy John Nathan1 min read
The American Society of Magical Negros review: Good idea, but not good enough for an entire filmThis would work as a Saturday Night Live sketch, but that’s about itBy John Nathan1 min read||May 3, 2024 16:08
How my son’s terminal cancer inspired me to convert to JudaismKit Vincent’s film ‘Red Herring’ tracks his family’s devastation after they were told he was terminally ill. His father tells our writer about how life has moved on sinceBy James Mottram5 min read||May 3, 2024 10:24
Unfrosted review: Seinfeld’s cereal classic snaps, crackles and popsJerry Seinfeld, the man who created and starred in one of the greatest TV comedies of all time, has now turned out an instant classic with his very first filmBy Stephen Pollard2 min read||May 2, 2024 18:00
Civil War review: On the horrifying road to a very disunited StatesBy John Nathan1 min read||April 26, 2024 14:52
The shameful tale of the Jewish boy kidnapped by the Catholic churchI meet the director of a new film about a six-year-old snatched from his family – after he’d been baptised by the family maidBy James Mottram6 min read||April 26, 2024 11:22
A fast, furious and justifiably gory revenge flickDev Patel’s directorial debut about India’s criminal underground is underpinned by a moral causeBy John Nathan1 min read||April 12, 2024 14:07
Amy Winehouse biopic was the inevitable next step in the commercialisation of the vulnerable starIt’s hard not to think that this film is the latest addition to the cottage industry that sprung up around the late songwriterBy James Mottram5 min read||April 10, 2024 11:43
Court orders US cinema to show Israeli film after it bowed to boycottsThe film, A Child Within Me, was cancelled after pressure from pro-Palestine activistsBy Faygie Holt2 min read||April 9, 2024 20:46
Mothers’ Instinct review: A study in grief morphs into a thrillerJessica Chastain is excellent but Anne Hathaway is stronger stillBy John Nathan1 min read||April 3, 2024 13:04
