Wickedly Jewish! New musical is chock-a-block with talented Jewish stars
The Yellow Brick Road is paved with Jewish talent for one of this year’s biggest film releases
Social media outrage after Israeli Jew cast as Jesus’ mother in Netflix biblical epic
The film is facing boycott calls from people insisting ‘Jesus was Palestinian’
Gladiator II review: ‘a swashbuckler that slays expectations’
Ridley Scott’s sequel is not the Hollywood boot-filling exercise you might expect
The enduring appeal of Nora Ephron, and the golden age of rom-coms
A new book about the Jewish writer and director’s filmography brings nostalgia for the era of When Harry Met Sally style rom-coms
Anora review: ‘Romeo and Juliet with more sex and drugs’
This delve into the underbelly of Manhattan sex clubs and Brooklyn’s Russian émigré community has been compared to ‘Pretty Woman’, but it’s better than that
Midas Man review: ‘Epstein entrances in sympathetic biopic’
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd rehabilitates the young svengali’s reputation with charm in this film, but the Fab Four fall curiously flat
Venom review: ‘it’s not Marvel-lous’
This is the Last Dance of his three-deal franchise and I suspect Tom Hardy is feeling rather relieved
The man with the golden touch: Who was ‘the fifth Beatle’ Brian Epstein?
With release of new biopic about Jewish visionary who discovered the Beatles, the JC reflects on his short but triumphant life
Jewish culture in Britain is being silenced
The Chief Executive of UK Jewish Film says cinemas and venues are quietly blocking out his organisation
The Apprentice review: ‘What would Melania Trump say?’
The Trump portrayed here is no monster but it is a portrait of a hustler who is still hustling
‘The Holocaust was the biggest smash and grab job in history’
A new film, due for its British premiere at next month’s UK Jewish Film Festival, uncovers the ongoing fight for justice over the art the Nazis stole from the Jews
Small town life and casual racism in 1960s Israel
A study in the differences between Indian and Moroccan Israeli communities set against the ochre colours of the Negev desert
October 7 documentary shares heart-wrenching new insights into Kibbutz Be’eri massacre
Dan Reed’s new Channel 4 documentary One Day in October features moving testimonies from survivors including Emily Hand
The shows you won’t want to miss – on stage and screen
Here are some of the best (Jewish-adjacent) shows that TV, film and theatre have to offer in October and November
A Good Jewish Boy review: ‘elegiac paean to a fading community’
This first feature by director and co-writer Noé Debré could so easily have ended up as a kosher kitchen sink drama. Instead, it’s a gem
The Goldman Case: The new French courtroom drama that puts Jewishness on trial
Cédric Kahn on his reconstruction of the 1976 trial of leftist Pierre Goldman – and the French judicial system’s prejudice against Jews
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