Larisa Trembovler’s name doesn’t exactly ring a bell, not even in Israel. In case you’ve forgotten, she’s the wife of Yigal Amir, who may be one of the most hated men in Israel. Why on earth would she want to marry a wretched assassin and villain like Amir? If you’re interested in the answer, you should watch […]
The drone, the unmanned airplane with astonishingly precise, deadly capabilities, has taken robotic warfare to new heights, having become the weapon of choice in the United States’ war against terrorism. This has been the case since Sept. 11, 2001, the day Arab terrorists crashed commercial airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City […]
When a stranger turns up in Leith, a one-horse town in North Dakota, heads turn and anger flares. Leith’s 24 residents take an intense dislike to newcomer Craig Cobb, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi who hopes to turn Leith into a “white nationalist community.” The showdown between the good people of Leith — which has […]
Alex Garland’s sleek science fiction thriller, Ex Machina, delves into the futuristic world of super-advanced artificial intelligence. Scheduled to open in Canada on April 24, it’s an eerie, compelling film replete with state-of-the-art technology and rife with plot twists. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a hot shot 26-year-old coder employed by an internet search engine company, wins a […]
The 10-day Toronto Jewish Film Festival, one of the largest of its kind in the world, gets under way on April 30 with a huge selection of movies from all corners of the globe. A preview: Zionism and Israel loom large at the forthcoming festival, judging by three films: The Zionist Idea, An Untold Diplomatic […]
This year’s edition of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 10, offers a terrific selection of films. A preview: Isaac Bashevis Singer, the great Yiddish novelist and short story writer, was an up-and-coming literary figure in Poland before he left the country for good in 1935. He established a […]
When the death of Gunter Grass — Germany’s most illustrious postwar novelist — was announced on April 13, some critics were only too eager to seize upon two glaring missteps which dimmed his otherwise stellar reputation. Describing him as a hypocrite and a fraud, they castigated Grass for having concealed his membership in the Waffen-SS […]
The Toronto Jewish Film Festival, one of the best of its kind, gets under way on April 30 and runs until May 10. A preview: Veronique Lagoarde-Segot’s Shoah: The Forgotten Souls of History, is a hard-hitting and important documentary about the role of cinematography in Soviet propaganda during World War II. Regarding cinema as a […]
The 10-day Toronto Jewish Film Festival starts on April 30, featuring a wide selection of movies from North America, Israel and the rest of the world. A preview: “They were the Israeli Hollywood,” says the film director Boaz Davidson. First cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were the founders and prime movers of the […]
The Toronto Jewish Film Festival, one of Toronto’s biggest cultural events, starts its 10-day run on April 30 with an eclectic selection of movies from around the world, including Israel. A preview: Are Jewish-style delicatessens a dying breed? It would seem so, judging by the hard, cold statistics served up in Deli Man, Erik Greenberg Anjou’s affectionate […]