Five For Fighting Can One Man Save the World? By Jay S. Jacobs In his hit song of many years ago, Five For Fighting songwriter and leader John Ondrasik pointed out that “you only have 100 years to live.” We last interviewed Ondrasik right as that song was climbing the charts – it has almost … Continue reading
LET IT BE MORNING (2021) Starring Alex Bakri, Juna Suleiman, Salim Daw, Ehab Salami, Khalifa Natour, Samer Bisharat, Yara Elham Jarrar, Maruan Hamdan, Doraid Liddawi, Izabel Ramadan, Arin Saba and Nadib Spadi. Screenplay by Eran Kolirin. Directed by Eran Kolirin. Distributed by Cohen Media Group. 101 minutes. Not Rated. There is a fine line between … Continue reading
WOMAN ALIVE (2021) Starring Lihi Zemel, Iftach Rave, Sasha Okun, Dvora Bayana, Tali Agaronov, Ifat Paor, Alma Shi, Shalom Korem, Ran Cohen, Irina Abayev, Geva Ronen, Jessica Kratz, Musa and Liad. Screenplay by Macabit Abramson. Directed by Macabit Abramson. Distributed by Chapter Two Films. 105 minutes. Not Rated. It’s not easy to watch someone unraveling. … Continue reading
SCREWDRIVER (MAFAK) (2018) Starring Ziad Bakri, Areen Omari, Jameel Khoury, Yasmine QaddumiMariam Basha, Amir Khoury, Wassim Mousa, Mohammad Adawi, Huthayfa Jalamna, Adham Abu Aqel, Munther Bannourah, Abedalrahman Zubaidi, Ibrahim Jawhari, Israa Darawsha, Nidal Taha, Bassam Jarbawi, Imad Mizro, Amira Habash, Faleh Faleh, Maya Omaia Keesh, Ahmad Jubeh, Sanad Amina and Doraid Liddawi. Screenplay by Bassam … Continue reading
THE DIVE (HATZLILA) (2018) Starring Yoel Rozenkier, Micha Rozenkier, Yona Rozenkier, Claudia Dulitchi, Miki Marmur, Shmuel Edelman, Daniel Sabag, Avraham Shalom Levi, Elad Tzafni, Yair Koya Rubin, Sun Intusap, Giora Gellert and Gidon Ucko. Screenplay by Yona Rozenkier. Directed by Yona Rozenkier. Distributed by Stray Dog Films. 91 minutes. Not Rated. Screened for the 2019 … Continue reading
THE CAKEMAKER (2017) Starring Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roy Miller, Zohar Shtrauss, Sandra Sadeh, Stephanie Stremler, Tagel Eliyahu, Tamir Ben Yehuda, Eliezer Shimon, Iyad Msalma, David Koren, Gal Gonen and Sagi Shemesh. Screenplay by Ophir Raul Graizer. Directed by Ophir Raul Graizer. Distributed by Strand Releasing. 109 minutes. Not Rated. Oren is a man who … Continue reading
IS THAT YOU? (2014) Starring Alon Aboutboul, Naruna Kaplan de Macedo, Rani Bleir, Suzanne Sadler, Patrick Michael Kelly, Navroz N. Dabu, Amy Dourghty, Eiran Gazit, Rita Worlock, Patrick Michael Kelly, Davy J. Marr, Mike Pasquale, Celia Madeoy, Christine Shapiro, Gary Voegel, Hal Alpert, Jolie Alpert, Jane Babik, David Cole, Denise Cole, Bruce Cole-Edwards, Myles Cranford … Continue reading
Gene Simmons Exercises His Freedom to Rock by Ken Sharp For a group routinely dismissed by short-sighted critics as a flash in the pan, a joke band comprised of talentless, cretinous musical goons soon to be forgotten and quickly discarded on the junk heap of failed rock bands past, KISS are having the last laugh. … Continue reading
RABIN IN HIS OWN WORDS (2015) Featuring archival footage of Yitzhak Rabin, Leah Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Yitzhak Shamir, Moshe Arens, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dalia Rabin-Pelossof … Continue reading
ZERO MOTIVATION (2014) Starring Dana Ivgy, Nelly Tagar, Shani Klein, Heli Twito, Meytal Gal, Tamara Klingon, Yonit Tobi, Yuval Segal and Elad Scemama. Screenplay by Tayla Lavie. Directed by Tayla Lavie. Distributed by Zeitgeist Films. 100 minutes. Not Rated. There is a long history of films mocking the drudgery and soul-crushing bureaucracy of military service. … Continue reading
