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Scarlett Johansson: Film backer tried to change Shoah plot

JNS — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:30:07 +0000

A financial backer of Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debut “Eleanor the Great” asked her to change the film’s Holocaust-centered storyline just one month before production was scheduled to begin. The financier requested that the main character lie about something other than the Holocaust, the Jewish American-Danish actress disclosed in an interview with The Telegraph published […]

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Nuremberg

Alex First — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:46:29 +0000

A movie review by Alex First Warning: this review contains distressing content Holocaust deniers should be made to sit with an audience of Jewish survivors to witness the horrors in the film Nuremberg. Specifically, I speak of deeply traumatising, black and white footage of corpses piled high, being shunted by a bulldozer like animal carcases. […]

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Holocaust denial clash at centre of controversial film ‘Anno 2020’

Rob Klein — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:14:49 +0000

A Holocaust-denial showdown is at the heart of ‘Anno 2020’, the award-winning Australian mystery-drama set for global streaming release on September 13. Sydney Jewish filmmaker Gil Ben-Moshe, who produced the film with his twin brother Oren, plays the lead role of Levi and said that following the success of last year’s red-carpet screenings in Sydney, […]

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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre – a movie review by Alex First

Alex First — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:45:48 +0000

A rollicking, globe-trotting actioner, director and co-writer Guy Ritchie has a lot of fun and keeps things moving in Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (ruse of war). He’s developed the script with two co-writers with whom he has worked on his past three films, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Twenty-six security guards have been murdered […]

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: a film review by Alex First

Alex First — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:05:55 +0000

Marcel is an extraordinary, original work with Best Animated Feature at the Oscars written all over it. It is a delightful tale that is beautifully told. Marcel (the voice of Jenny Slate) is a one-inch-high shell that came from a large community of shells. Now only he and his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) remain. Into […]

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