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The Penguin Lessons: ‘Steve Coogan p-p-picks one up’

Steve Coogan’s English teacher takes up a position at a boarding school in Buenos Aries in the 1970s, where a military coup and a penguin upend his life

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Birds of a feather: Steve Coogan and his co-star penguin

An Imperial War Museum archive still used in the film

What They Found review: Sam Mendes presents the proof of Bergen-Belsen

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Horror and humanity: a scene from The Most Precious of Cargoes Photo: Ex Nihilo

The Most Precious of Cargoes review: “fairytales and the Holocaust can coexist”

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Hand-drawn visions: a scene from The Most Precious of Cargoes. Director Michel Hazanavicius drew all of the characters in the film himself Photo: Ex Nihilo

‘My animated Shoah movie tells truths that kids will understand’

By James Mottram

6 min read

The film of Seven Jewish Children is as foul as the stage version

The film of Seven Jewish Children is as foul as the stage version

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

US actress Rachel Zegler attends the world premiere of Disney's "Snow White" at the El Capitan theatre in Los Angeles (Image: Getty)

Snow White producer’s son says Rachel Zegler’s pro-Palestinian comments ‘hurt the film’ at the box office

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No pain, no gain Cain: Jack Quaid Photo: Marcos Cruzmarcos Cruz

Novacaine review: ‘sticks and stones won’t hurt him’

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The Polish nurse, the Nazi officer and the Jews in the basement

Hollywood screenwriter Dan Gordon on his new film Irena’s Vow, the true story of a teenage housekeeper who hid and saved 12 Jews in her employer’s cellar

By James Mottram

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March 27, 2025 12:40

Courage and faith: Sophie Nélisse (centre) as Irena Gut, the housekeeper for a Nazi officer

Gal Gadot first Israeli actor to receive star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Her upcoming film Snow White has faced backlash from pro-Palestinian groups due to Gadot’s background

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March 19, 2025 13:06

Gal Gadot attends her Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony in Hollywood, California (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)

Snow White review: ‘a Grimm remake’

Oh no, it’s off to woke they go in this new Disney adaptation, co-starring Gal Gadot, of its 1937 animated classic

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March 19, 2025 11:58

Thinly drawn: Gal Gadot as the queen Photo: Disney

Tanya Gold

Hollywood loves a cause, except when the cause is Jewish

October 8, a new documentary about antisemitism is getting the cold shoulder

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March 19, 2025 10:36

Hollywood loves a cause, except when the cause is Jewish

Jewish community in Glasgow fights back against cinema’s Coca-Cola boycott

BDS ‘amounts to discrimination’, say Jewish leaders as cinema prepares to vote on adopting the anti-Israel movement

By Jane Prinsley

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March 18, 2025 10:37

Glasgow Film Theatre stopped selling coca-cola after a campaign from staff members of Unite Union who demanded the cinema adopt BDS (Photo by Euan Cherry/Getty Images)

Opus review: ‘glossy but lacks spine’

Films about journalism can make great thrillers but Mark Anthony Green’s debut requires the audience to suspend more belief than is reasonable

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March 14, 2025 17:37

Mixed media: Ayo Edebiri (centre) as magazine staffer Ariel

Disney scales back Snow White premieres in London and LA

The film stars Israeli actor Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler who has championed the Palestinian cause

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March 13, 2025 17:22

Rachel Zegler (left) and Gal Gadot star together in the live action remake (Picture: Getty)

Mickey 17 review: ‘dark satire meets bonkers science fiction’

For the Oscar-winning Parasite director’s latest film think Dr Strangelove aboard an intergalactic ship

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March 6, 2025 16:53

Space oddity: Robert Pattinson as Mickey

US actor Jesse Eisenberg granted Polish citizenship after directing A Real Pain

The A Real Pain star hopes to ‘create better relationships between Jews and Polish people’

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March 6, 2025 09:37

Jesse Eisenberg has been granted Polish citizenship by President Andrzej Duda (Picture: Reuters)

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