JERUSALEM (JTA) — “Our Boys,” a ten-part series about the events that led to the 2014 Gaza War, will be screened on HBO in August.

The most recent biography in Yale University’s Jewish Lives series is “Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures,”written by Adina Hoffman, an award-winning essayist and biographer and former film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post.

Ben Ferencz has gotten a close look at crimes against humanity over the last century. In fact, he helped to define what the phrase means by serving as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazis following World War II. 

Even if you don’t know movie mogul Carl Laemmle’s name, you almost certainly know his studio’s films: “Dracula,”  “Frankenstein,” “The Mummy,”  “All Quiet On the Western Front,” “Imitation of Life,”  “Showboat” — and other great classics of Hollywood’s Golden and Silent eras.

The 24th annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, featuring cinematic gems highlighting Jewish themes from around the world, will begin  Sunday and run through June 6 at Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac Cinema. It boasts an excellent lineup of 14 documentaries and full-length features from seven cou…

Teen comedy “Booksmart,” which opens May 24, centers on Amy (BEANIE FELDSTEIN, 25) and Molly (Kaitlyn Dever), best friends and high school seniors who decide to break-out of their bookish rut by going to a wild graduation party. But they don’t know where it is. So they accidentally go, first, to a party on a yacht hosted by a rich classmate (SKYLER GISONDO, 22) and then to another classmate’s (NOAH GALVIN, 24) “wrong party” before they finally make it to the right one. LISA KUDROW, 55, has a supporting role as Amy’s mom.