Kibbutz Be'eriOctober 7 documentary shares heart-wrenching new insights into Kibbutz Be’eri massacreDan Reed’s new Channel 4 documentary One Day in October features moving testimonies from survivors including Emily HandBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
ArtsThe shows you won’t want to miss – on stage and screenHere are some of the best (Jewish-adjacent) shows that TV, film and theatre have to offer in October and NovemberBy Elisa Bray4 min read
FilmA Good Jewish Boy review: ‘elegiac paean to a fading community’This first feature by director and co-writer Noé Debré could so easily have ended up as a kosher kitchen sink drama. Instead, it’s a gemBy John Nathan1 min read
FilmThe Goldman Case: The new French courtroom drama that puts Jewishness on trialCédric Kahn on his reconstruction of the 1976 trial of leftist Pierre Goldman – and the French judicial system’s prejudice against JewsBy James Mottram4 min read
FilmAzazel Jacobs on His Three DaughtersThe film director on why returning to his native New York inspired him to make a movie about how a family copes with griefBy Anne Joseph5 min read
FilmAn Israeli director debuts with a film shot in a kibbutz ravaged by October 7Keren Nechmad's film Kissufim was shot three years ago before the kibbutz became the site of a Hamas massacreBy Jane Prinsley6 min read
FilmThe Critic review: ‘acidic revenge plot in 1930s London’Ian McKellen’s stone-faced critic is a delicious embodiment of cruelty and witBy John Nathan1 min read
Vogue model and war journalist Lee Miller’s Jewish friends and loversA film released this week tracks her astonishing story – and the cast of high-profile Jews who played crucial roles in building her careerBy Melanie Abrams 4 min read||September 11, 2024 15:34
Firebrand review: ‘Jude Law’s Henry VIII’The actor is on terrifying form in this film which uses poetic licence to excellent effectBy John Nathan1 min read||September 5, 2024 16:58
Blink Twice review: ‘men are the enemy of women’Revenge is best served on a toxic male tycoon’s private island in this film which starts as a rom-com but which becomes a thrillerBy John Nathan1 min read||August 27, 2024 15:59
Filming a Jewish nonprofit workplace comedyFilm student Elizabeth Leff wrote and directed the comedy short Nonprofit based on her experience working for a Jewish nonprofit in Washington DCBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||August 23, 2024 14:15
The 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||August 21, 2024 16:34
Between 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||August 21, 2024 15:24
How Jewish is Justin Baldoni?The actor was raised in an interfaith household, and has been on pilgrimage to IsraelBy Hannah Gillott 2 min read||August 15, 2024 11:20
Widow Cliquot review: ‘more prosecco than champagne’Cliquot’s corporate story has been deemed big screen fare so I wish the film had dived into the mysterious alchemy of how the sparkling wine is madeBy John Nathan1 min read||August 14, 2024 15:45
‘The Holdovers’ Dominic Sessa to star in Anthony Bourdain biopicMatt Johnson will direct the feature film about the late writer and chef, whose mother was JewishBy Eliana Jordan1 min read||August 13, 2024 12:49
