Day 778 - Movie maven Jordan Hoffman reviews 'Bad Shabbos'

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

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Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.

This week, the pair speaks about two films -- the new-ish, Jewish, "Bad Shabbos," and the classic Mel Brooks's "History of the World, Part I."

But first, we turn to the segment, "What's the Jangle," in which we discuss two tidbits of Jewish entertainment news.

Hoffman gives a tiny peek at the upcoming super Jewy film starring Timothée Chalamet, "Marty Supreme," which he saw in previews this week.

And then we hear Pope Leo's top four films of all time. (Spoiler: three of them are very Jewy.) And, which questionable film personality was quoted by the pope at a Vatican event?

Next, we get to "The Main Screening," in which the duo first discusses "Bad Shabbos," which one half of the team absolutely loved and the other gave a pretty warm review.

And then, we move to the classic, "History of the World, Part I," which Borschel-Dan buckled down and watched for the first time.

Hear who gave both films a seal of approval and which was a split decision on this week's The Reel Schmooze.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Real Shmooze.
0:06.7	I'm your host Amanda Borschelle Dan here with our movie Maven, Jordan Hoffman,
0:12.1	here to bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
0:17.9	That's good.
0:18.8	I kind of remembered it, right, Jordan? You thought it up off the dome last
0:24.4	time, so it's pretty good. I'm impressed still. And how do you like your new title,
0:29.8	a movie Maven? I'll take it. I'll always love an alliteration, you know? I mean,
0:34.3	it's always good. Who doesn't, right? And so this week, we are going to bring you some entertainment news with specific jangles.
0:43.0	And we're also going to speak about two films.
0:46.5	One is called Bad Shabbas and the other is called The History of the World Part 1.
0:51.2	And I did my homework.
0:52.4	I saw both of these films.
0:53.9	Nice. How about you, Jordan?
0:55.0	I watched Bad Shabbas, which I had not seen. I did not have time to watch History of the World
1:01.0	Part 1 again, but luckily I've seen it about 400,000 times. So I'm pretty eager to talk about it.
1:07.8	And for new listeners timing, and that's as a general rule we're going to try to do is take one classic, in this case, Mel Brooks's History of the World Part 1, and then something new. And Bad Shabbas is relatively new. It is available, though, to stream. It's not in theaters right now. But as a general rule, we're going to try to do one and one. Some weeks, We may just do one film when we don't have time to watch both or there's something really big.
1:31.0	But that's kind of the general, the general real schmooze philosophy here.
1:35.5	That's right.
1:35.9	Something newish, that's Jewish.
1:37.6	So we're going to talk about all of that and more when we're back.
1:48.6	Thank you. and more when we're back. Why are Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews so often left out of the Jewish story?
1:53.9	In a new episode of Wandering Jews with Michal and Noam, Michal Bitton shares findings from a groundbreaking
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