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Darren Richman
Screenshot: IMDB
January 9, 2025, 8:51 pm
A respectful Holocaust film that contains jokes: Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘A Real Pain’
'The first generation is dying out yet art is still being created in relation to the Holocaust' says reviewer Darren Richman
By Darren Richman
Kristen Bell and Hot rabbi Adam Brody star in Nobody Wants This
December 23, 2024, 10:03 am
OPINION: How Christmas trees and circumcision made the perfect compromise
Darren Richman reflects on interfaith marriage and family expectations
By Darren Richman
Double Indemnity
November 27, 2024, 12:20 pm
Dark days, dark nights and dark movies – it must be ‘Noirvember’
Jews played a big role in film noir, which combines high art with low
By Darren Richman
Screenshot: Roald Dahl books
November 20, 2024, 11:55 am
OPINION: Two Jews, three opinions: what should we make of Roald Dahl?
Darren Richman reviews the Royal Court's performance of 'Giant'
By Darren Richman
November 11, 2024, 11:02 am
Is this Bob Dylan’s last hurrah?
The singer who is forever the voice of protest is performing in London this week
By Darren Richman
Grandpa Harry
October 29, 2024, 11:51 am
OPINION: When Harry met Zigi – a tale of two grandfathers
Poetic licence in honour of a beloved grandfather, the one without a Wikipedia page.
By Darren Richman
October 22, 2024, 12:08 pm
New documentary about Paul Simon charts the magic of his music, his life and his Jewishness
The New York Jew has lost most of his hearing but continues to make music
By Darren Richman
Ben Gazzara, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jane Adams, Louise Lasser, Cynthia Stevenson in Happiness
October 14, 2024, 7:11 pm
Todd Solondz’s controversial black comedy gets a new lease of life
The general consensus seems to be that you could never make a film like Happiness now but, in truth, you couldn’t really make it back then
By Darren Richman
Adam Lenson. Photo: Guy J. Sanders
September 5, 2024, 3:35 pm
Cancer diagnosis gives Cable Street director Adam Lenson a focus
The second run of the award-nominated show opens this week
By Darren Richman
Judith Kerr's The Tiger Who Came to Tea has been adapted into an animation and will air on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve
September 2, 2024, 3:43 pm
OPINION: The question of how the Holocaust is represented in art is a thorny one
Judith Kerr found a way to write about Germany in the 1930s in a manner that was informative, funny and relatable without ever diminishing the seriousness of what occurred, writes Darren Richman
By Darren Richman
Stephen de Bastion
August 15, 2024, 11:20 am
The Hungarian pianist who survived the war – and so did his beloved instrument
Stephen de Bastion's singer-songwriter granddaughter inherited his piano and then wrote his Shoah story
By Darren Richman
Screenshot: Youtube Trailer
July 24, 2024, 6:29 pm
OPINION: The Commandant’s Shadow gives no easy answers but holds a glimmer of hope
Darren Richman reviews a documentary that attempts to grapple with why we are who we are in the shadow of the Holocaust
By Darren Richman
Tom Lamont
July 18, 2024, 1:13 pm
Tradition, parenting and ‘Jewishness’ are at the core of Tom Lamont’s debut novel
Guardian writer's relationship with his father and his son are springboard for warm, humorous book
By Darren Richman
Mel Brooks with the Lifetime Achievement Award at British Academy Film Awards (Photo credit: Ian West/PA Wire)
June 28, 2024, 2:29 pm
OPINION: Happy blazing birthdays to the incomparable Mel Brooks
The comedian who affectionately called the Queen Mother 'the biggest shiksa there ever was” turns 98 today
By Darren Richman
England lost to Italy in the final of Euro 2020
May 29, 2024, 12:24 pm
OPINION: Football is an irresistible addiction I will never kick
This summer, the England football team has its best chance of silverware in decades (heard that one before?!) Darren Richman waxes lyrical on Euro 2024 and what the sport means to British Jews.
By Darren Richman
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