Defiance (movie)

On a recent chilly morning, Liev Schreiber was eating breakfast in a downtown Manhattan restaurant while a swarm of shutterbugs hovered outside on the corner near his apartment. However, Schreiber wasn't exactly the one whom the photographers were after....

During his life and now in death, Tuvia Bielski was many things to many people: a courageous and resourceful leader who helped save more than 1,200 Jews from falling into the hands of the Nazis; a humble man whose monumental achievements have inspired...

Defiance is a recently released movie about a group of Jewish World War II resistance fighters in Eastern Europe, lead by the Belski brothers. My late father-in-law, Joe Abrams, was part of the group, and he placed explosives on tracks to blow up German...

The holiday season is also the season for Oscar blurbs, the only real difference being that the Oscar blurb season keeps going long after we've opened the gifts, celebrated the new year and tossed out the Christmas tree. For the last few weeks, as the...

With Seth Rogen, Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore, Sacha Baron Cohen and others on board as presenters, Sunday's Golden Globe awards ceremony is clearly hoping not to be a repeat of last year's disastrous telecast. That show amounted to little more than...

Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and their little dog have not lost their box office bite. The family tale " Marley & Me," starring Aniston and Wilson as owners of an adorably mischievous pooch, took in $24.1 million to finish as the No. 1 movie for a...

Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and their little dog have not lost their box office bite. The family tale '' Marley & Me,'' starring Aniston and Wilson as owners of an adorably mischievous pooch, took in $24.1 million to finish as the No. 1 movie for a...

Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and their little dog have not lost their box office bite. The family tale "Marley & Me," starring Aniston and Wilson as owners of an adorably mischievous pooch, took in $24.1 million to finish as the No. 1 movie for a...

Early on in 2007's comedy hit "Knocked Up," Seth Rogen and a bunch of buddies, nearly all of them Jewish, are hanging at a nightclub when Rogen announces that he's just seen "Munich," the Steven Spielberg film about an Israeli assassination squad....

FRI., JAN. 9 "Bride Wars" "Not Easily Broken" "Timecrimes" "The Unborn" "Virtual JFK" FRI., JAN. 16 "Chandi Chowk to China" "Che" "Defiance" "Hotel for Dogs" "Last Chance Harvey" "My Bloody Valentine 3D" "Notorious" "Paul Blart Mall Cop"...

Who would have dreamed that an animated film about a lonely robot who collects show tunes and falls in love with another android would be one of the year's most critically lauded and popular movies—and also contain the year's best film score?...

It's the season to gather, be grateful for what we have and look forward to a whole new year. But for cinephiles, it's awards season, and that means dreary fare -- particularly with a World War II or Holocaust focus. No fewer than six are set for...