Hava Nagila Director: Roberta Grossman With: Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Connie Francis, Danny Kaye, etc., and a whole bunch of Jews at weddings and bar mitzvahs. As a (one-time) yeshiva boy, I have occasionally ruminated on the idea that 5,000-plus… Read More

I am finally beginning to post written reviews on the All Classical website.  Many people have taken me to task for my failure to blog about movies, but all things come to those who wait. I will start with the… Read More

Our fearless movie critics look at The Internship, The Kings of Summer, Violet and Daisy, Sightseers, that old chestnut Pit and the Pendulum, and the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. Wikipedia link for Violet and Daisy… Read More

Battlefield Earth, but that’s not saying much.  M. Night must have had a metronome by him as he was sitting in the director’s chair, because he sure hit all the beats you would expect in a sci-fi-estranged-father-son-catharthis-aspiring-to-be-epic movie.  Yawn.  Perhaps… Read More

After Earth is circled, along with the James adaptation What Masie Knew, Kon-Tiki, Becoming Traviata, and To Catch a Thief.

 Click on this link to view the Becoming Traviata trailer Outsiders tend to forget how much work goes into plays, movies, and operas. Perhaps operas even more, given that they juggle the synchronization of numerous major art forms, including singing,… Read More

This week’s array of films includes Star Trek Into Darkness, Fast and Furious 6, Love Is All You Need, and more.

The team considers the family drama At Any Price, and ponders The Iceman, about a mob hitman. Plus a discussion of the German police procedural The Silence.

The gang weighs in on one of the most anticipated films of 2013, The Great Gatsby, plus takes a look at a traveling program of films noirs.

The band revels in Iron Man 3, and also a retrospective of the films of French director Claire Denis.