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

Culture

‘Desert Rats’: TV or not TV? That is the question
January 9, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Desert Rats was the first live play of the New Year I saw and is a kickass way to kick off 2019.
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World

George H.W. Bush, dirty tricks, and regime change in nuclear-free Palau
January 4, 2019 By Ed Rampell
To find out who commits a crime, see who benefits from it.
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Culture

‘Aquaman’: The life aquatic with Hawaiian Polynesian Power superhero Jason Momoa
January 3, 2019 By Ed Rampell
If noisy action, violence, CGI and other eye-popping special effects in a superhero movie is your thing, then you will love the mind-boggling Aquaman.
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Culture

Dick Cheney in ‘Vice’: Was he vice president or viceroy?
January 2, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Writer/director Adam McKay pursues a path of disrupting a straightforward docudrama narrative with highly filmic forays into satire, speculation, metaphor and more.
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Culture

Hoagancamp’s heroes: ‘Welcome to Marwen’
December 21, 2018 By Ed Rampell
Although it’s flawed, I commend Zemeckis, his cast and crew for not only taking on such daunting subject matter, but for doing so in such an original way.
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Culture

Defective defectors don’t hit trifecta in new Polish film ‘Cold War’
December 21, 2018 By Ed Rampell
Cold War’s virtue is that, to some extent, it does allow Westerners to take an insider peep into the pluses and minuses of life under Soviet-style socialism.
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Culture

Brandli does Brontë in ‘Sisters Three’
December 19, 2018 By Ed Rampell
There have also been various biopics about the Brontës, but Brandli’s Sisters Three is probably the most original —- and wackiest.
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Culture

‘The Weekend,’ ‘Roma,’ ‘The Favorite,’ ‘Stan & Ollie,’ capsule reviews from AFI
November 28, 2018 By Ed Rampell
The American Film Institute’s annual film festival, which took place Nov. 8-15, is arguably Los Angeles’s premier annual fete of cinema.
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