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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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‘Tuner’: The Jewiest film of the summer

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the comedic crime thriller that spotlights Dustin Hoffman, Lior Raz and Tovah Feldshuh

‘Operation Thunderbolt’: 50 years to the heroic raid on Entebbe

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 1977 Israeli adventure film based on the real-life daring IDF rescue of over 100 hostages from Uganda that had taken place only a year earlier

‘What’s up, Doc?’: Sultry Streisand’s screwball meshugas

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 1972 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring a wacky Barbra Streisand and nerdy Ryan O'Neal

‘Beaufort’: How Israel left Lebanon in 2000 with a bang

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss Joseph Cedar's newly resonant 2007 Oscar-nominated film

‘Oxygen’: An Israeli mother sacrifices all to keep soldier son breathing

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor welcome their first guest, Isaac Zablocki, ahead of his 14th Annual Israel Film Center Festival, and discuss two Israeli titles from the lineup

‘A Serious Man’: Coen brothers craft the Jewiest film of all

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor kvell over the 2009 dark comedy set in the wilds of 1967 Minnesota