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, the pair introduces the concept of the new show, including the segment, “What’s the Jangle,” in which they discuss two tidbits of Jewish entertainment news.
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We hear how “The Real Pain” creator Jesse Eisenberg is willing to go under the knife to donate a kidney to a perfect stranger. And we learn about two brave Hollywood actresses — Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver — who haven’t joined the boycott Israel movement and are signed on to work with Israeli director Joseph Ceder in his upcoming thriller.
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Next, we get to “The Main Screening,” a segment in which the duo discusses two films: the newly released Natalie Portman project, “Arco,” and 2024’s “Thelma” starring 96-year-old June Squibb.
Hear which films get the seal of approval from our team and which was a split decision on this week’s The Reel Schmooze.
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