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The Reel Schmooze

The Reel Schmooze

Movie maven Jordan Hoffman brings all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.

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Star Trek: 60 years to the most gloriously nerdy enterprise

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor boldly go where no staff have gone before and explore all that is Jewish behind the beloved franchise

‘Don’t Say Good Luck’: The Sunny (Sandler) side of life, with cancer

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the newest Sandler family production, starring daughter Sunny and a cast of actors forming a relatable family going through a too-common crisis

‘Wizards’: Does animated 1977 art film belong in the canon, or in the geniza?

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the completely bizarre mixed-medium movie that wrestles with magic, boobies, evil Nazis and Hitler 5,000 years in the future

‘The Frisco Kid’: A (gefilte) fish out of water in the Wild West

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the extremely Jewish 1979 cowboy flick starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford

‘Double Indemnity’: Billy Wilder’s film noir masterpiece

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 1944 release that help launch a genre and put the Jewish refugee from Europe on on the movie-making map

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’: Lifts veil on how regime turned rotten

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 'memoir in books' written by Iranian-American author Azar Nafisi and directed by Israeli Eran Riklis