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Search for Mr. Right when the Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh romantic comedy The Wedding Plan arrived on Digital HD August 22 and will arrive on DVD September 5 from Lionsgate. From award-winning Irsaeli writer and director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void) comes the Venice Film Festival® Best Picture 2016 nominee and New York Times Critic Pick starring Noa Koler as Michal, an Israeli woman looking for love after her fiancé calls off the wedding with only a month’s notice. “Charming, humorous and enjoyable” (The Hollywood Reporter), The Wedding Plan DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98. Now you can own The Wedding Plan on DVD. We Are Movie Geeks has four copies to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie with the word ‘Wedding’ in the title? (mine is The Wedding Crashers!). It’s so easy! Good Luck!

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Megan Leavey (biographical drama; Kate Mara, Ramon Rodriguez, Tom Felton, Bradley Whitford, Will Patton, Edie Falco, Common; rated PG-13) Rough Night (comedy; Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, Zoë Kravitz, Paul W. Downs, Ty Burrell, Demi Moore; includes gag reel; rated R) Paris Can Wait (romantic comedy; Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin; rated PG) The Wedding Plan (romantic comedy; Noa Koler, Oz Zehavi; rated PG) Lost in Paris (romantic comedy; Fiona Gordon...

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Search for Mr. Right when the Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh romantic comedy The Wedding Plan arrived on Digital HD August 22 and will arrive on DVD September 5 from Lionsgate. From award-winning Irsaeli writer and director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void) comes the Venice Film Festival® Best Picture 2016 nominee and New York Times Critic Pick starring Noa Koler as Michal, an Israeli woman looking for love after her fiancé calls off the wedding with only a month’s notice. “Charming, humorous and enjoyable” (The Hollywood Reporter), The Wedding Plan DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98.

The Wedding Plan is a poignant and funny romantic comedy about love, marriage, and faith in life’s infinite possibilities. Michal, blindsided by her fiancé’s decision to call off their wedding with only a month’s notice, is unwilling to return to single life. Michal decides to put her trust in fate...

We’re less than a week away from June, the big wedding month, so let’s head, not to the chapel, but to the multiplex to catch a new nuptials flick. This new one is about an ultra-determined bride who has set a deadline to walk down the aisle. The non-refundable deposit is down for the hall, the reception, and the facilities, but the only part of her plan that’s missing is the groom. Ah, another zany, frothy “rom-com”, much in the style of 27 Dresses and Bride Wars (perhaps Heigl, or Hudson are in this one). you would think. Well, you would be wrong. Sure there are flashes of humor, but this new film ties the wedding to a test of faith. For this new take on “the big day” is from Israel, and its heroine is an Orthodox Jew. There are no wacky hi-jinks involving cake tasting and...

The Wedding Plan (Laavor et hakir) Roadside Attractions Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B- Director: Rama Burshtein Written by: Rama Burshtein Cast: Noa Koler, Dafi Alferon, Noa Kooler, Oded Leopold, Ronny Merhavi, Udi Persi, Jonathan Rozen, Irit Sheleg, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4/18/17 Opens: May 12, 2017 Rami Bushstein, […]

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Opening in Beverly Hills on April 26 and continuing to May 3, the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will showcase contemporary and classic films highlighting the best in Jewish Cinema.Of the 27 films showing, 14 are Los Angeles premieres. One World Premiere, one North American Premiere and one U.S. Premiere make for some great discoveries.

An opportunity for film lovers to celebrate the rich tapestry of Jewish history, Jewish heritage and Jewish characters, the Opening Night Red Carpet Reception at Laemmle’s Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills evening will honor one of the entertainment industry’s most beloved figures, Ed Asner, with the Los Angeles premiere of the documentary “My Friend Ed”, directed by Sharon Baker and executive produced by Liza Asner.

For his distinguished body of work as an actor, and for his relentless commitment to activism and to preserving Jewish life.

Ed Asner

You know him best as Lou Grant,...

"What about your heart?" Roadside Attractions has debuted a trailer for a romantic comedy indie film titled The Wedding Plan, from director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void). This is one of those perfectly cheesy romantic comedy concepts that actually looks somewhat enjoyable. A woman begins planning her elaborate wedding, until the groom backs out. But she decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway, in hopes that the right man will appear within the 30 days left until the big day. Israeli actress Noa Kooler stars as the lead character Michal, with a huge ensemble cast including Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi, Irit Sheleg, Ronny Merhavi, Dafi Alpern, Karin Serrouya and Erez Drigues. This may actually be worth a watch. Enjoy. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Rama Burshtein's The Wedding Plan, in high def from Apple: At 32, Michal is finally looking forward to the comfort and security of marriage,...

The distributor is expected to finalise a North American deal with The Match Factory for Rama Burshtein’s Venice premiere on Saturday morning.

Through The Wall, a 2016 nominee for an Israeli Academy Ophir award, is a rom-com about a young religious woman who keeps her wedding date and resolves to find a new spouse when her former betrothed gets cold feet with one month to go.

The film also played at Telluride and stars Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi, Irit Sheleg Roni Merhavi and Dafi Alpern.

Burshtein and producer Assaf Amir of Norma Productions won numerous awards including the Venice Coppa Volpi for their first film Fill The Void, including the 2012 best picture Ophir in Israel.

In an effort to review every new film I see this year --  a task I have never accomplished but there's a first time for everything -- I will resort to capsules like these when I haven't reviewed properly. (I realize that my "Oscar" section of reviews implies that all films should be seen through this prism. This implication is not literal or an endorsement -- it's just something that's fun for me and some of you to think about.)

Yossi

We're ten years on from Yossi & Jagger and Yossi is now a doctor, who buries himself in work to avoid living life or moving beyond that love cut short. When a chance encounter with Jagger's mother shakes him from his stupor, he ends up on holiday. Some of the notes are beautifully played -- the early tearful scene with Jagger's mother is super -- but Yossi is a maddeningly passive protagonist.

Eytan Fox’s gay-themed drama Yossi is a an emotional story of starting to find one’s way back after losing a love – something to which everyone, gay or straight, should be able to relate to. The new film takes place ten years after the tragic events of Fox’s earlier Yossi And Jagger, an international hit film from 2003 about Yossi, an Israeli commander whose secret gay lover Levi is killed during a raid on Lebanon. A decade later Yossi (again played by Ohad Knoller) is still suffering over the death of Levi, remains closeted (just as he was as a soldier) and appears to have few, if any friends. Now chubby and unshaven, he’s become a respected cardiologist. He spends a lot of time at the hospital where he works avoiding the wasted sexual advances of a clueless female colleague and even more time at home trolling gay porn and hook up sites.

Yossi

Directed by Eytan Fox

Israel, 2012

Eytan Fox’s follow-up to his 2002 short-feature Yossi & Jagger is an accomplished, sweet love and regret story.

Yossi (Ohad Knoller) is a closeted young doctor. When Varda (Orly Silbersatz) shows up at his hospital for a routine check-up, Yossi’s military and romantic past leads him to a new crossroads in his life.

Yossi is ostensibly divided into two halves. The first half takes place largely in Yossi’s Israeli hospital and the surrounding city and is a trudge towards obvious exposition. It’s the second-half, taking place almost solely in a beach resort, when director Fox’s compositions feel freer and the narrative takes on a looser lilt that Yossi eventually succeeds.

Ohad Knoller gives a strong performance as the title character, but he too feels limited by the stuffy opening to the film. It’s unclear whether Fox thinks that the narrative...

Closet Space: Fox Brings a Welcome Addendum to Celebrated Film

Eytan Fox’s much celebrated 2002 film, Yossi & Jaggar, concerning a passionate and secret love affair between two male Israeli soldiers, one of which dies tragically in combat in the arms of the other on the border of Lebanon, clapped a melancholy ending on what seemed a romance impossible to openly disclose both in time and place. A decade later, after debuting several other successful films, Fox returns with Yossi, who has also aged ten years and still remains in the closet. Not only does this followup serve as a continuation of a character from a film that’s gone on to develop a cult status in the queer film canon, but also as survey of progress in the acceptance of queer representation.

Still mourning the death of his lover, Jaggar, Yossi (Ohad Knoller) now works as a physician in an Israeli hospital,...

Title: Yossi (Ha-Sippur shel Yossi) Strand Releasing Director: Eytan Fox Screenwriter: Itay Segal Cast: Ohad Knoller, Lior Ashkenazi, Orly Silbersatz, Oz Zehavi, Ola Schur Selektar Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 1/8/13 Opens: January 25, 2013 There are many ways that the cultures of Iran and Israel are dissimilar. In Iran’s population there exists not a single homosexual, at least not since 1979. If you can’t believe the president of that country, whom can you believe? In Israel, for example, gays may not always be out of the closet but that macho country happily has no problems with gays in the army. Not only that, but gay men and hetero men [ Read More ]

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Sightseers | Great Expectations | The Hunt | Laurence Anyways | Rise Of The Guardians | Trouble With The Curve | Yossi | Alex Cross | Talaash

Sightseers (15)

(Ben Wheatley, 2012, UK) Steve Oram, Alice Lowe, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover. 88 mins

It's been billed as Badlands meets Nuts In May, but what separates this English country killing spree from its influences is its finely tuned sense of humour, which owes more to Alan Partridge or Edgar Wright. That's the black icing on a cake that's already rich with satire, twisted romance and gruesome violence, as our caravanning couple carve a murderous swathe through our nation's more mundane tourist attractions. It makes you proud to be British.

Great Expectations (12A)

(Mike Newell, 2012, UK/Us) Jeremy Irvine, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter. 128 mins

To be honest, expectations weren't that great for this lavish, handsome, star-stuffed but essentially orthodox Dickens adaptation. Despite the epic scope, the dense plot feels crammed in, and...

Eytan Fox directs a moving followup to his drama about an Israeli commander whose gay lover is killed in Lebanon

Ten years have passed since the tragic events of Yossi & Jagger, director Eytan Fox's drama about an Israeli commander whose gay lover is killed during a raid on Lebanon. Now we're back with Yossi (Ohad Knoller), free of the military, but trapped by his grief – for the death of his sexual confidence as much as for Jagger. Fox uses the introduction of young, out-and-proud soldier Tom (Oz Zehavi) to argue that Israel has changed, and it's just that Yossi – sleepwalking through his job as a doctor – is too lonely to notice. There's a bit of drag in the opening act, and Fox would rather talk about social politics than foreign affairs, but it's a film full of tenderness, resting on a tremendous, sad performance from Knoller.

Rating: 3/5

DramaIsraelGay rightsHenry Barnes

guardian.

Yossi

Directed by Eytan Fox

Israel, 2012

Philadelphia Film Festival

Eytan Fox’s follow-up to his 2002 short-feature Yossi & Jagger is an accomplished, sweet love and regret story.

Yossi (Ohad Knoller) is a closeted young doctor. When Varda (Orly Silbersatz) shows up at his hospital for a routine check-up, Yossi’s military and romantic past leads him to a new crossroads in his life.

Yossi is ostensibly divided into two halves. The first half takes place largely in Yossi’s Israeli hospital and the surrounding city and is a trudge towards obvious exposition. It’s the second-half, taking place almost solely in a beach resort, when director Fox’s compositions feel freer and the narrative takes on a looser lilt that Yossi eventually succeeds.

Ohad Knoller gives a strong performance as the title character, but he too feels limited by the stuffy opening to the film. It’s unclear whether Fox thinks...

More casting news is coming in for NBC's latest foray into genre territory, "Midnight Sun". Read on to find out who the next members of that kooky cult will be. Or not. You never know with TV nowadays. All those twists and turns!

According to Variety, Lucien Laviscount and Oz Zehavi have joined the cast of the NBC pilot "Midnight Sun." Laviscount plays a member of the cult planning his escape.

Brad Anderson (Session 9, Vanishing on 7th Street, Transsiberian, The Machinist) is to direct NBC's "Midnight Sun" pilot.

David Harbour (The Green Hornet) was recently added to the ensemble cast that also includes Julia Stiles (The Omen, "Dexter"), Emma Bell (Final Destination 5, Frozen, "The Walking Dead"), and Titus Welliver ("Lost", "Sons of Anarchy") as Bennett Maxwell, the charismatic and manipulative leader of Midnight Sun.

The thriller follows the mysterious disappearance of Midnight Sun, a group living on a cult-like commune in Alaska,...

Lost alumna Yunjin Kim has landed a lead opposite Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan in Mistresses, ABC’s drama recently greenlighted straight to series for a summer 2013 launch. The soap, written by Kj Steinberg and based on the British format, is described as a provocative drama about four women — three of them played by Kim, Aytes and Macallan — with scandalous romantic lives, caught in storms of excitement and self-discovery, secrecy and betrayal. Kim will play Katie, a therapist who slept with one of her patients, John, before his death. Also cast on the series are Erik Stocklin in the regular role of Sam, John’s son, who finds himself falling in love with Katie; and Cameron Bender in the recurring role of Richard, a recently divorced man who hires April to re-decorate his new apartment and starts a romance with her. Stocklin is with Jc Robbins, Bender is with Metropolitan and Justice & Ponder.