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One Week And A Day (Shavua ve Yom) Oscilloscope Laboratories Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Asaph Polonsky Written by: Asaph Polonsky Cast: Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Tomer Kapon, Alona Shauloff, Sharon Alexander, Carmit Mesilati-Kaplan, Uri Gavriel Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/14/17 Opens: April 28, 2017 Jewish burial customs are different from […]

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'Munich' movie cover 'Munich' movie review: Steven Spielberg tackles political time-space continuum in wildly uneven but ultimately satisfying thriller Alternately intriguing and irritating, thought-provoking and banal, subtle and patronizing, the biggest surprise about Steven Spielberg's Munich is that it – however grudgingly – works. The film, which Spielberg himself has referred to as a "prayer for peace," follows five men contracted by the Israeli government to avenge the massacre of that country's athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Sizable chunks of this political thriller with a Message (capital "M") are simplistically written, clumsily acted, and handled with the director's notoriously heavy touch, but the old adage – blood begets blood – even if somewhat muddled, is too timely not to make an impact. Complex 'Munich' movie plot Based on George Jonas' 1984 book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, whose veracity has been questioned in some quarters, Munich begins as...

Nickelodeon announced on Friday a new round of promotions in its ad sales and marketing departments. Nelson Boyce, senior vice president of the digital ad sales unit, has been named Svp of ad sales strategy and business development -- a newly-created position. Boyce will be responsible for, among other things, developing strategies for Nickelodeon’s Upfront. Taking over Boyce’s previous duties of leading Nick’s digital ad sales efforts will be Katy Loria, who has been named Svp of Nickelodeon digital ad sales. Nickelodeon also named Sharon Cohen Svp, integrated marketing and retail marketing and...