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PopEntertainment

Nov 10, 2019
4 min

Screwdriver (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Screwdriver (Mafak) 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 Jarbawi. Directed by Bassam Jarbawi. Distributed by D

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PopEntertainment

Jun 8, 2019
3 min

The Dive (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

The Dive 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 Israel Film Center Festival. This is as close to a family movie as you are going to get in the c

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PopEntertainment

Jul 7, 2018
2 min

The Cakemaker (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

The Cakemaker 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 cannot cook but loves to eat. In this story centered on love, grief, and food, Oren is lucky to have a w

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PopEntertainment

Oct 14, 2016
3 min

Is That You? (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Is That You? 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 and Harv Popick. Screenplay by Eshkol Nevo and Dani Menkin. Directed by Dani Menkin. Distribu

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Gene Simmons Exercises His Freedom to Rock

PopEntertainment

Aug 29, 2016
13 min

Gene Simmons Exercises His Freedom to Rock

Gene Simmons 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. Detractors be damned, 46 years since the original band – Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss – first came together, in 2016 KISS co

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PopEntertainment

May 7, 2016
3 min

Rabin In His Own Words (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Rabin In His Own Words 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 and Yuval Rabin. Script by Erez Laufer. Directed by Erez Laufer.

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PopEntertainment

Jan 23, 2015
3 min

Zero Motivation (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Zero Motivation 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. The line goes back to films like No Time For Sergeants, Dr. Strangelove, M*A*S*H, Catch-22, Strip

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Hany Abu-Assad On His Oscar nominated Controversial Feature Omar

PopEntertainment

Feb 28, 2014
7 min

Hany Abu-Assad On His Oscar nominated Controversial Feature Omar

Hany Abu-Assad at the New York Press Day for “Omar.” Hany Abu-Assad On His Oscar nominated Controversial Feature Omar by Brad Balfour Palestinian director Hany Abu–Assad’s controversial Oscar–nominated feature Omar merges genres and uses flawed characters to dynamically illustrate the complex political realities between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Born October 11th, 1961, in Nazareth, Israel, Abu–Assad was first nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in

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PopEntertainment

Aug 30, 2011
3 min

The Debt (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

The Debt THE DEBT (2011) Starring Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen, Ciarán Hinds, Romi Aboulafia, Tomer Ben David, Ohev Ben David, Jonathan Uziel and Brigitte Kren. Screenplay by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan. Directed by John Madden. Distributed by Focus Features. 114 minutes. Rated R. The Debt moves with the hushed confidence and self-satisfied seriousness of an important movie – and in ma

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PopEntertainment

Mar 20, 2008
3 min

Jellyfish (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Jellyfish JELLYFISH (2007) Starring Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Knoller, Ma-nenita De Latorre, Zharira Charifai, Ilanit Ben Yaakov, Assi Dayan and Miri Fabian. Screenplay by Shira Geffen. Directed by Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen. Distributed by Zeitgeist Films. 78 minutes. Not Rated. This charming and quirky little Israeli slice-of-life has been opening some eyes, winning the Palm D’Or for best first-time feature at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Directed

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PopEntertainment

Oct 11, 2007
2 min

Golda’s Balcony (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Golda’s Balcony GOLDA’S BALCONY (2006) Starring Valerie Harper. Screenplay by William Gibson. Directed by Jeremy Cagan. Distributed by East-West Ventures. 95 minutes. Not Rated. Golda’s Balcony was a one-woman show in the theater. A single person standing on stage, doing a huge monologue for the entire running time. This makes it inherently hard to translate cinematically. Little things like having the main character voicing the words of other characters, which can work o

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PopEntertainment

Sep 27, 2007
8 min

Valerie Harper – Good as Golda

Valerie Harper as Golda Meir in “Golda’s Balcony.” Valerie Harper Good as Golda by Ronald Sklar Even all these decades later, the woman who played one of the most beloved TV characters of all time still arouses intense reactions. “Little old Jewish ladies grab my cheeks and say, ‘sweetheart, darling, they tell me you’re not Jewish. Say it isn’t so,'” says Valerie Harper, who played the insecure, wise-cracking, never-the-bride Rhoda on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and in her own

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PopEntertainment

Feb 16, 2007
2 min

Close to Home (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Close to Home (Karov la Bayit) CLOSE TO HOME (KAROV LA BAYIT) (2007) Starring Smadar Sayar, Naama Schendar, Danny Geva, Sharon Reginiano, Sandra Schonwald, Irit Suki, Ami Weinberg, Katia Zinbris, Anna Stephan and Ilanit Ben Yaakov. Screenplay by Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hager. Directed by Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hager. Distributed by IFC First Take. 94 minutes. Not Rated. The day-to-day realities in the Middle East are horrifying. However, because of that all-encompassing instabil

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett