Film Review By Michael Fox, Special To The Observer The graying of the baby boomer generation has had a side effect we should have anticipated: septuagenarian romantic comedies. Made for a specific demographic, golden age rom-coms are a decidedly mixed bag. If the leads are movie stars, we’ve followed their

Film Review By Michael Fox, Special To The Observer Hundreds of movies have been made about the horrors of the Holocaust. The exquisite Hungarian film Those Who Remained is one of relatively few to explore how survivors struggled in the years after. A small story that contains multitudes, Those Who

By Michael Fox Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Benjamin Ferencz was the lead prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of 24 officers who led the Einsatzgruppen (mobile SS extermination squads) that murdered more than a million Jews and other “enemies of the state” in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. Just 27 when

By Michael Fox Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Palestinian writer-director Sameh Zoabi achieves something altogether remarkable with his second feature film, particularly at this moment in time: He finds humor in the tattered relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. “The whole idea of Tel Aviv on Fire is that we