At the Movies: Opens Feb. 19
“Race” is the first dramatic film about Jesse Owens, the great African-American track star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, which were held in Nazi Germany. The film covers Owens’ college career, his difficult time as a movement grew in the U…
At the Movies: Opens Friday, Feb. 12
“How to Be Single” doesn’t sound like ground-breaking fare: it’s a bunch of lightly connected stories that follow about a dozen unmarried New York City singles as they look for love and/or hook-ups. Still, it’s usually interesting to see how we…
“Tribe” Woman on the Frontier and Caesar
Opening last Friday, Jan. 29, was “Jane Got a Gun”. NATALIE PORTMAN, 34, stars in this Western as a married ranch woman who has to enlist the help of a former lover, whose heart she broke (Joel Edgerton), to help protect her and her young dau…
African-American, Jewish, and More
It’s a coincidence, but on the Martin Luther King holiday I noticed that I had a number of ‘trending’ pop culture items about Jews who are also African-American. Let’s start with the movies: opening on Friday, January 29, is “Fifty Shades of Bl…
New TV Shows and Jewish Stars of Commercials (with character names!)
Here’s one I should have noted before now: The NBC comedy series “Superstore” debuted at the end of November. Its mostly about the woes of the staff of a Walmart type store and, while its not fall down funny, its not…
