FilmThe Brutalist director on why he made a film now set for Oscar gloryBrady Corbet’s new movie stars Adrien Brody as a mid-century designer and a Shoah survivor and pays tribute to the beauty of architecture, a discipline rarely celebrated on the screenBy James Mottram4 min read
FilmHow A Real Pain took Jesse Eisenberg on a road trip to his psyche’s ‘ground zero’Hollywood star Jesse Eisenberg tells John Nathan about what compelled him to make a movie that took him to the very house in eastern Poland where his great aunt had lived before the Nazi death squads arrived – and to the gas chambers at Majdanek concentration campBy John Nathan7 min read
ChanukahWe previewed Hallmark’s schmaltzy Chanukah movies so you don't have toHere comes the Chanukah cringeBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
CultureJewish culture in Britain is being silencedThe Chief Executive of UK Jewish Film says cinemas and venues are quietly blocking out his organisationBy Michael Etherton3 min read
FilmThe Jewish rom-com that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about platonic loveI talk to writer-director Nathan Silver about his new film Between the Temples, featuring a cantor who’s losing his voice and faith until his old teacher saves himBy James Mottram6 min read
FilmBetween the Temples review: ‘excruciating in the best way’This comedy is based on the kind of ineffectual and hapless Jew that gentiles have long liked most, but it’s Jewish plea to live life to the full is one we can all get behindBy John Nathan2 min read
