Hulu has released a trailer for We Were the Lucky Ones, the upcoming limited drama series based on Georgia Hunter’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name. Starring Joey King and Logan Lerman, the series is inspired by the incredible true story of a Jewish family that were determined to survive and reunite […]
Movie Review – Golda (2023)
Golda, 2023. Directed by Guy Nattiv. Starring Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, Camille Cottin, Lior Ashkenazi, Ellie Piercy, Ed Stoppard, Rotem Keinan, Dvir Benedek, Dominic Mafham, Kit Rakusen, Emma Davies, Mark Fleischmann, Daniel Ben Zenou, Muneesh Sharma, Sara Matin, Sam Shoubber, Zed Josef, Henry Goodman, Rami Heuberger, and Ben Caplan. SYNOPSIS: Focuses on the intensely dramatic […]
Helen Mirren is Israel’s first female Prime Minister in the trailer for historical biopic Golda
Throughout her career Academy Award winner Helen Mirren has played many historical figures, from Elizabeth I through to Ayn Rand, and now she’s back in the biopic business again in the role of Golda Meir, Israel’s first female Prime Minister. Directed by Oscar-winning Guy Nattiv (Skin), from a script by Nicholas Martin (Florence Foster Jenkins), […]
Blu-ray Review – Big Bad Wolves (2013)
Big Bad Wolves, 2013. Directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado. Starring Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, Tzahi Grad, Rotem Keinan, and Guy Adler. SYNOPSIS: During a spate of child kidnappings and murders, the latest victim’s father, the investigating cop and the main suspect become embroiled in a twisted and violent downward spiral whilst seeking […]
Second Opinion – Entebbe (2018)
Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Daniel Bruhl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Denis Menochet, Ben Schnetzer and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: Over 200 passengers on an Air France flight are held hostage over seven days in the summer of 1976. Nearly half of them are either Israeli or Jewish. The plane lands at Entebbe in Uganda, […]
Movie Review – Entebbe (2018)
Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Nonso Anozie, and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: In July 1976, two terrorists (Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl) linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacked an Air France passenger plane, forcing it to land at Entebbe airport in Uganda. Chronicling the […]
Movie Review – Foxtrot (2017)
Foxtrot, 2017. Written and Directed by Samuel Maoz. Starring Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray, Shira Haas, Yehuda Almagor, and Karin Ugowski. SYNOPSIS: A troubled family faces the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post. From its opening frame, it’s evident that Foxtrot (written and directed by Samuel Maoz of […]
Movie Review – 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
7 Days in Entebbe. 2018 Directed by José Padilha Starring Rosamond Pike, Daniel Bruhl, Lior Ashkenazi, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Nonso Anozie, Denis Ménochet, Brontis Jodorowsky, Zina Zinchenko, Mark Ivanir, and Peter Sullivan Synopsis: Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and […]
First trailer for hijack thriller 7 Days in Entebbe starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl
The first poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming thriller 7 Days in Entebbe (titled Entebbe in the UK). Directed by Jose Padilha (Elite Squad, Narcos), the films is based on the true events of the hijacking of a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris in 1976 and stars Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie […]
Movie Review – Norman (2016)
Norman, 2016. Directed by Joseph Cedar. Starring Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. SYNOPSIS: From the outside, Norman Oppenheim (Richard Gere) looks like an eccentric businessman. But the truth is that he dreams up schemes that come to nothing, so he tries to be everybody’s friend, and doesn’t […]
