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The Reel Schmooze
Jordan Hoffman brings all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
Episodes
The Reel Schmooze'Tootsie': Does the 1982 gender-bender hold up?
Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews…
The Reel Schmooze'The In-Laws': How a shmendrik dentist and crazy CIA agent share a mid-life crisis
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The Reel Schmooze'The Apartment': Why this 1960 film about adultery is a comedy icon today
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The Reel Schmooze'The Stamp Thief': Will a rag-tag team of LA Jews get lucky in Poland?
Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews…
The Reel Schmooze'Ushpizin': An unforgettable homage to the most beautiful etrog of all
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The Reel Schmooze'The Jazz Singer': How the world's first 'talkie' could not be more Jewy
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The Reel Schmooze'You Had To Be There': How a musical about Jesus shaped Jewish comedy
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The Reel Schmooze'The Runner': Starring lovely London -- and a sprinting Gal Gadot
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The Reel SchmoozeStar Trek: 60 years to the most gloriously nerdy enterprise
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The Reel Schmooze'Don't Say Good Luck': The Sunny (Sandler) side of life, with cancer
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The Reel Schmooze'Wizards': Does animated 1977 art film belong in the canon, or in the geniza?
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The Reel Schmooze'The Frisco Kid': A (gefilte) fish out of water in the Wild West
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The Reel Schmooze'Double Indemnity': Billy Wilder's film noir masterpiece
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The Reel Schmooze'Reading Lolita in Tehran': Lifts veil on how regime turned rotten
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The Reel Schmooze'Tuner': The Jewiest film of the summer
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The Reel Schmooze'Operation Thunderbolt': 50 years to the heroic raid on Entebbe
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The Reel Schmooze'What's up, Doc?': Sultry Streisand's screwball meshugas
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The Reel Schmooze'Beaufort': How Israel left Lebanon in 2000 with a bang
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The Reel Schmooze'Oxygen': An Israeli mother sacrifices all to keep soldier son breathing
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The Reel Schmooze'A Serious Man': Coen brothers craft the Jewiest film of all
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The Reel Schmooze'Cast a Giant Shadow': A 1966 ode to Israel’s first general, Mickey Marcus
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The Reel SchmoozeWho wore it better: Bradley Cooper or Maestro Leonard Bernstein?
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The Reel Schmooze'Roommates' and 'How to Make Challah': Different slices of Jewish American pie
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The Reel Schmooze'Exodus': When Hollywood still loved the Jewish state
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The Reel SchmoozeNadav Lapid's 'Yes!': Israeli director's wartime film raises eyebrows and ire
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The Reel Schmooze'The Ten Commandments': Put your hands up as iconic film turns 70
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The Reel SchmoozeBy popular demand: Modi standup special and Red Hot Chili Peppers docu
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The Reel SchmoozeThe Oscars edition: Tribe pride and Israel vilified
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The Reel Schmooze'Fantasy Life': Escape the news to a very Jewy NY Upper West Side
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The Reel Schmooze'Blue Moon': Brilliant or a waste of space?
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The Reel Schmooze'All the President's Men': 50-year-old time capsule of great American journalism
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The Reel Schmooze'BlacKkKlansman' and 'The Butcher's Stain': Evil racism at its most entertaining
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The Reel Schmooze'Melania' and 'Zelig': Mockumentary at its finest
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The Reel SchmoozeComic neuroses in Jesse Eisenberg's 'A Real Pain'
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The Reel SchmoozeJafar Panahi's defiant tragicomedy 'It Was Just an Accident'
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The Reel Schmooze'Holding Liat': Post-Oct. 7 anguish and inconvenient truths
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The Reel Schmooze'Marty Supreme' and the art of chutzpa
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The Reel Schmooze'Anaconda' star Jack Black's mother was a rocket scientist?!
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The Reel SchmoozeArt or propaganda? 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'
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The Reel SchmoozeTwo 'mehs' for 'Jay Kelly,' now on Netflix
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The Reel SchmoozeScarlett Johansson's 'Eleanor the Great' lives up to its name
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The Reel SchmoozeChewing over the 1990 Thanksgiving classic 'Avalon'
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The Reel SchmoozeHow everything going wrong makes 'Bad Shabbos' so right
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The Reel SchmoozeNatalie Portman’s ‘Arco’ – An art film for kids
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The Reel SchmoozeThe new Hollywood buddy flick, 'Nuremberg'
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