Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
This week, we hear amazing Jangles (entertainment news a Jew can use) from Hoffman, including the contentious NY launch of “Marty Supreme” and the inside scoop into actor Jack Black’s superwoman of a mother.
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The pair hunker down to review the Schmoovie of the week, “The Sure Thing,” a 1985 film of teen love — and lust. Rob Reiner’s second directorial offering, the movie gets mixed reviews from our hosts.
Hear who gave “The Sure Thing” a middling “meh” and who gave it our top mark of “not bad” on this week’s The Reel Schmooze.
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