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The Reel Schmooze — 37 episodes

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Star Trek: 60 years to the most gloriously nerdy enterprise

2

'Don't Say Good Luck': The Sunny (Sandler) side of life, with cancer

3

'Wizards': Does animated 1977 art film belong in the canon, or in the geniza?

4

'The Frisco Kid': A (gefilte) fish out of water in the Wild West

5

'Double Indemnity': Billy Wilder's film noir masterpiece

6

'Reading Lolita in Tehran': Lifts veil on how regime turned rotten

7

'Tuner': The Jewiest film of the summer

8

'Operation Thunderbolt': 50 years to the heroic raid on Entebbe

9

'What's up, Doc?': Sultry Streisand's screwball meshugas

10

'Beaufort': How Israel left Lebanon in 2000 with a bang

11

'Oxygen': An Israeli mother sacrifices all to keep soldier son breathing

12

'A Serious Man': Coen brothers craft the Jewiest film of all

13

'Cast a Giant Shadow': A 1966 ode to Israel’s first general, Mickey Marcus

14

Who wore it better: Bradley Cooper or Maestro Leonard Bernstein?

15

'Roommates' and 'How to Make Challah': Different slices of Jewish American pie

16

'Exodus': When Hollywood still loved the Jewish state

17

Nadav Lapid's 'Yes!': Israeli director's wartime film raises eyebrows and ire

18

'The Ten Commandments': Put your hands up as iconic film turns 70

19

By popular demand: Modi standup special and Red Hot Chili Peppers docu

20

The Oscars edition: Tribe pride and Israel vilified

21

'Fantasy Life': Escape the news to a very Jewy NY Upper West Side

22

'Blue Moon': Brilliant or a waste of space?

23

'All the President's Men': 50-year-old time capsule of great American journalism

24

'BlacKkKlansman' and 'The Butcher's Stain': Evil racism at its most entertaining

25

'Melania' and 'Zelig': Mockumentary at its finest

26

Comic neuroses in Jesse Eisenberg's 'A Real Pain'

27

Jafar Panahi's defiant tragicomedy 'It Was Just an Accident'

28

'Holding Liat': Post-Oct. 7 anguish and inconvenient truths

29

'Marty Supreme' and the art of chutzpa

30

'Anaconda' star Jack Black's mother was a rocket scientist?!

31

Art or propaganda? 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'

32

Two 'mehs' for 'Jay Kelly,' now on Netflix

33

Scarlett Johansson's 'Eleanor the Great' lives up to its name

34

Chewing over the 1990 Thanksgiving classic 'Avalon'

35

How everything going wrong makes 'Bad Shabbos' so right

36

Natalie Portman’s ‘Arco’ – An art film for kids

37

The new Hollywood buddy flick, 'Nuremberg'