A ping-pong movie shouldn’t feel like a crime thriller. And yet Jewish director Josh Safdie turns “Marty Supreme” into a pressure-cooker story about a Lower East Side striver who treats table tennis like a hustle, a stage, and a way out. Safdie’s...

  Israeli director/screenwriter Joseph Cedar’s next film project, a thriller called “Useful Idiots,” is set to star Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Friday. Cedar will direct the film from a script...

  Jewish-American actress Scarlett Johansson called out the alarming rise in antisemitism in a recent interview with Israel's Channel 12 News, discussing concerns that it could lead to physical violence. "People are making antisemitic...

Russell Crowe and Rami Malek deliver outstanding performances in the gripping historical drama “Nuremberg,” which chronicles the creation of the post–World War II tribunals that brought the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany to justice. These groundbreaking...

The St. Louis International Film Festival returns Nov. 6-16, showcasing films from around the world across a wide range of interests, including those with Jewish and Israeli themes.  The 34th annual SLIFF, titled “Film Without Borders,” features...

  Before “Guns and Moses” even hit theaters, my inbox was flooded with emails from readers asking the same questions: “Have you heard about this movie?” and “Is it coming to St. Louis?” The buzz was real, and now, "Guns and Moses"...

(JTA) — When Rita Zohar stepped into the role of Bessie Stern, a Holocaust survivor whose death sets in motion Scarlett Johansson’s new film “Eleanor the Great,” she wasn’t simply acting. Zohar, 81, is a childhood survivor of the Holocaust....

Robert Redford, the actor, director and film festival visionary, has died at 89. Remembered for his ruddy good looks, accomplished pivot to directing and helping to usher the film industry into its independent era by spearheading the Sundance...

We’ve been following the whirlwind success of "Bad Shabbos" since its debut at the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival in March. After making the leap to a wide release last month, the Tribeca Audience Award-winning comedy is now headed for its next...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Peter Sellers, the English Jewish comedian who was born 100 years ago on Sept. 8, 1925, lived at a time before leading...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Darren Aronofsky’s most formative encounter with Haredi Jews may have come when he was an 18-year-old in Israel at the...

If you were a Jewish young man coming out of college in the early 1990s, still wanting to be cool and hip, you were listening to the Counting Crows. The band quietly electrified us thanks to their super-hip frontman Adam Duritz. And when it became...