Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘Atlantics (Atlantique)’: An African ‘Get Out’ type of movie
November 25, 2019In 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, 2019Brazilian 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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‘Desert One’: The imperialists who couldn’t shoot straight
November 21, 2019From Harlan to Hormel to Hemingway to Hostages, two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple is one of America’s preeminent documentarians.
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‘The Irishman’: Pacino, Paquin and the gangs of New York are all here
November 20, 2019I enjoyed this epic three quarters of the way through, but I could have lived without the final hour or so, which basically deals with growing old.
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‘Kathy Griffin, A Hell of a Story’ comedy documentary mocks Trump
November 13, 2019Griffin’s hilarious documentary tells the saga of her May 30, 2017, photo shoot, with what looked like Trump's bloody severed head.
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‘Poisoning Paradise’: Pierce Brosnan 007 hunts down agrichemical villains
November 8, 2019The ultimate Bond villain: Biotech companies such as Monsanto and DuPont, whose pesticides and GMO experimental projects are turning people into lab rats.
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‘The 7 Stages of Grieving’: An original Aboriginal Australian one-woman show
November 7, 2019As soon as the curtain lifts at the Skylight Theatre, "The 7 Stages of Grieving" kicks off with something most American audiences are likely to have never seen before in all of their theatergoing.
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Film review: All aboard the freedom train with “Harriet”
November 1, 2019In a straight forward, conventional manner co-writer/director Kasi Lemmons (1997’s Eve’s Bayou) unfolds the life story of Araminta "Minty" Ross.
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