Hollywood

Before Israel became a headline, it was an epic - opinion

Israel’s survival requires more than arguments; it needs living stories, memories, heroes, beauty, tragedy, and courage.

Paul Newman in 'Exodus.'
Sydney Sweeney, Kérastase's global ambassador

Hollywood’s most talked-about star, Sydney Sweeney, to front Kérastase launch

Dante and Virgil in the Second Circle of Hell, 1823. Found in the Collection of Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen. Artist Koch, Joseph Anton (1768-1839).

What South Park and Dante get wrong about the Hebrew Bible’s Hell - study

Israeli director Sam Firstenberg, center, with cinematographer Ken Lamkin, left, and an unidentified colleague on the set of "Riverbend," a 1989 action drama that has recently been restored.

A lost film by Israeli B-movie director Sam Firstenberg gets a new life


Rebel Wilson calls Sacha Baron Cohen 'a**hole' in new memoir

On March 15th, Wilson initially teased the conflict on Instagram, revealing she had dedicated an entire chapter to a "massive a**hole" she encountered in Hollywood without naming anyone.

 The 76th Cannes Film Festival - The amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2023 charity gala - Antibes, France, May 25, 2023. Rebel Wilson poses.

Engines of growth, innovation & community in medical aesthetics

Engines of growth, innovation, and community in the medical aesthetics industry: the beauty industry's promising sector.

 Kate Hudson was chosen as Alma's presenter and shows the differences between trends and clinically proven treatments

Jewish actor reportedly offered the role of the next James Bond

The iconic superspy who has become a fixture on the big screens may soon be played by a Jewish actor with significant acting chops.

 Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson attends a photo session after a Buddhism ritual to pray for success for his movie 'Bullet Train' at Koyasan Tokyo Betsuin Temple in Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 2022.

Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech slammed by 1,200 Jewish Hollywood stars, creators

The letter says that "The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years distorts history."

 Director Jonathan Glazer poses with the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for "The Zone of Interest" of United Kingdom in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US, March 10, 2024.

Hollywood is failing Jewish-Americans despite a history together - opinion

Far from Jews controlling Hollywood, it would seem that in order to get ahead, they must bury their Jewishness, or else prostrate to antisemites.

 BILLIE EILISH, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and others wore a pin of a red hand at the Oscars (left), failing to understand that the red hand is a symbol of the red hands of Aziz Salha after he killed two Jews in a lynching in Ramallah in 2000 (right.)

Hollywood star chosen as an ambassador for the Kérastase hair brand

American actress Sidney Sweeney, known for her roles in "The White Lotus" and "Euphoria", chosen as global ambassador for luxury hair brand Kérastase.

  Like Lotus: Sydney Sweeney was chosen as an ambassador for the hair brand Kérastase /

Hollywood goes bananas for 'The Monkey House'

In spite of the movie theaters being closed for much of October due to the war, the movie has continued to draw audiences.

 ADIR MILLER in Avi Nesher’s ‘The Monkey House.’

‘Origin’ story: How Ava DuVernay’s new movie connects the Holocaust, slavery and caste

The film opens with the 2012 murder of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, later recreating Nazi-era Germany, the Jim Crow South and other moments it connects through the idea of caste. 

 Jon Bernthal and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a scene from "Origin."

‘Stranger Things’ star Noah Schnapp clarifies Israel-Hamas war stance

Actor Noah Schnapp, who is Jewish American, initially posted an impassioned statement on Instagram condemning the violence and advocating for peace on both sides.

 Noah Schnapp attends Netflix's Stranger Things ATAS Official Screening at Raleigh Studios Hollywood on May 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

Actor Lee of Oscar-winning 'Parasite' found dead amid drugs probe

The actor had said he was tricked into taking drugs by a bar hostess trying to blackmail him.

 Police crime scene tape