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 speaks about the feature film, “Jay Kelly,” and the short documentary “Carol & Joy.”
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But first, we hear in this week’s “Jangle” segment, an update on a story from last week regarding one of the Holocaust survivors featured in the film, “Eleanor the Great,” Sami Steigmann, who was asked not to speak at a Brooklyn middle school about antisemitism due to his pro-Israel views.
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Our second Jangle involves the impending sale of Warner Bros Studio. Hoffman has some passionate thoughts.
We then speak about “Jay Kelly,” a 2025 comedy-drama directed by Noah Baumbach and written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer. For Borschel-Dan, it was a screening in two sleepy parts that ended with a “meh” rating. Hoffman was (slightly) kinder.
Both were united in their appreciation for the documentary, “Carol & Joy,” directed by Nathan Silver and starring actress Carol Kane and her 98-year-old mother, Joy Kane. It is a delight of a film and… executive produced by a The Reel Schmooze regular, Natalie Portman.
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