ToI movie maven Jordan Hoffman reviews Rob Reiner's 'The Sure Thing'
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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, we hear amazing Jangles (entertainment news a Jew can use) from Hoffman, including the contentious NY launch of "Marty Supreme" and the inside scoop into actor Jack Black's superwoman of a mother.
We hear a full-throated recommendation from Borschel-Dan for a multi-media performance she caught that is touring Israel. Based on journalist and author Matti Friedman's "Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai," the Beit Avichai production will announce its schedule of future shows in April.
The pair hunker down to review the Schmoovie of the week, "The Sure Thing," a 1985 film of teen love -- and lust. Rob Reiner's second directorial outing gets mixed reviews from our hosts.
Hear who gave "The Sure Thing" a middling "meh" and who gave it our top mark of "not bad" on this week's The Reel Schmooze.
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IMAGE: US actor Jack Black attends the premiere of Columbia Pictures' "Anaconda" at The United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California, on December 13, 2025. (Robyn Beck / AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's The Real Shmuse. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a host Amanda Borschall Dan here with our movie maven, Jordan Hoffman, for our weekly powwow. |
| 0:18.1 | Let's call it a powwow about all of the Jewish movie reviews and Jewish entertainment |
| 0:23.4 | news anyone can use. |
| 0:25.3 | That's right. |
| 0:26.1 | Thank you for having me back. |
| 0:27.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:27.9 | It's terrific. |
| 0:28.9 | We're getting close to the end of the calendar year. |
| 0:32.7 | Everything's a little busy. |
| 0:34.2 | I was in the car all day yesterday. |
| 0:37.3 | I barely got any sleep, but I'm back up today to face the day and |
| 0:42.3 | traveled through from the deep south all the way back to central New Jersey. And I want to give a |
| 0:49.3 | shout out to the great state of Maryland because the minute you enter Maryland from either direction, |
| 0:56.3 | the minute you enter Maryland, it's like, hello, we hope you like celery salt. Here you go. |
| 1:01.0 | It's on all your food. So that's a, that's a weird thing there. But yeah, good weather by and |
| 1:07.5 | and spent some time spent the Hanukkah days down in North Carolina. |
| 1:13.8 | So there you go. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm not even sure what celery salt is, actually. |
| 1:18.2 | Well, come to Maryland sometime. |
| 1:20.2 | It's the base ingredient of something called Old Bay seasoning. |
| 1:24.0 | When you go to a restaurant in Maryland, they have salt, they have pepper, and then they have |
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