Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell is an LA-based film historian and critic, author of "Progressive Hollywood: A People’s Film History of the United States," and co-author of "The Hawaii Movie and Television Book." He has written for Variety, Television Quarterly, Cineaste, New Times L.A., and other publications. Rampell lived in Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, and Micronesia, reporting on the nuclear-free and independent Pacific and Hawaiian Sovereignty movements.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell

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The estranged bedfellows of ‘Bombshell’: What the Fox is going on?
December 17, 2019 By Ed Rampell
The star-studded anti-Fox News movie Bombshell is perfect for the #MeToo era.
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Queer Eye for the Cinefile: How Enlightened was the Enlightenment?
December 10, 2019 By Ed Rampell
"Portrait of a Lady On Fire" film review.
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The new Belorussian film ‘Debut’: Crime and punishment and art therapy
December 6, 2019 By Ed Rampell
A well-made, touching documentary.
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‘Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator’: Oh! Kolkata, yogi bare and boo-boos
December 3, 2019 By Ed Rampell
As Eva Orner’s chilling Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator contends, Bikram Choudhury—who is now a fugitive from the U.S. but still teaching and cashing in elsewhere—is one of the latest in a long line of figures from...
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Borderline ‘Ivana the Terrible’: A chip off of Dusan Makavejev’s cinematic block
December 2, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Shot tongue in cheek, Terrible is 89 minutes of mostly good fun.
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‘Clemency’: Dead woman walking, a capital film on capital punishment
November 27, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Alfre Woodard, one of our elder stateswomen of the acting profession, delivers a powerhouse of a performance as the prison warden, Bernardine Williams, Clemency’s main character.
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‘Atlantics (Atlantique)’: An African ‘Get Out’ type of movie
November 25, 2019 By Ed Rampell
In her feature film directorial debut, the young Diop, who is already an accomplished actress in France, proves with Atlantics she also has a bright future as a metteur en scène.
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‘The Two Popes’: The god couple
November 22, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, who was Oscar-nominated for 2002’s City of God and Golden Globe-nommed for 2005’s The Constant Gardener, is back with another topical film.
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