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Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg appear in A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Film Festival Movie Reviews

A Real Pain – Sundance 2024

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Jesse Eisenberg’s sophomore feature film, A Real Pain, is a buddy comedy about a pair of cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. I watched A Real Pain on Thursday as soon as the virtual edition got underway. Knowing it was from Jesse Eisenberg and knowing it dealt with Jews touring through Poland, it was always going to kick off my virtual programming on Wednesday. Being Jewish myself, my family lived in Eastern Europe before…

"A Real Pain – Sundance 2024"
The Gies and Frank families attend a performance at the Jewish Theater as seen in A SMALL LIGHT. (From left: Bel Powley as Miep Gies, Ashley Brooke as Margot Frank, Amira Casar as Edith Frank, Billie Boullet as Anne Frank, Liev Schreiber as Otto Frank, and Joe Cole as Jan Gies)
Television

A Small Light Puts The Focus On Miep Gies

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While Anne Frank’s story will be forever known thanks to her diary, A Small Light focuses on the woman who helped the Franks, Miep Gies. “I don’t like being called a hero, because no one should ever think you have to be special to help others. Even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can turn on a small light in a dark room.” – Miep Gies (Bel Powley) Anne Frank’s story has…

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