All together now: "I'm dreaming of a white ..." Chanukah? Not going to happen. Environmentally, sure, it's a possibility. But expecting a Jewish composer like Irving Berlin of "White Christmas" fame to wax lyrical over Judah Maccabee's miracle? That would be a miracle in and of itself. But why do some Jewish composers find Christmas more musical than Chanukah? Adam...
Erik Nelson is capping his company's troika of Holocaust-related films with Engineering Evil, conducted in claustrophobic and transfixing detail of how Nazis went about their daily destruction of bashing the lives of their Jewish victims.
Would Michael Scott ever take his Office out for a halvah break? Not in Scranton. But quite possibly in Tel Aviv, where an Israeli version has wowed local audiences since last year. Shot in the shaky-camera style originated for the BBC program -- created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, subsequently adapted for the American version by Greg Daniels --...
A romantic comedy not of getting physical but of getting physics? Losing Control loses no time in setting itself up as a madcap farce of mad scientists.
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