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

Arts

Babs’ majordomo in solo play “Buyer & Cellar”
October 21, 2016 By Ed Rampell
Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar is one of those clever concoctions where it’s hard to know where fact ends and fiction begins.
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Culture

Double play: “Billy & Ray” and “The Stand-In”
October 17, 2016 By Ed Rampell
The cynicism Wilder’s oeuvre is known for suggests that he may not necessarily have been so wild about us - the human race.
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Culture

“Kevin Hart: What Now?”: Black off-topic comedy
October 14, 2016 By Ed Rampell
Kevin Hart: What Now? makes a contribution to the growing cinematic surge of Black-themed films.
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Culture

Edward Albee dies, “The Play About the Baby” premieres
September 30, 2016 By Ed Rampell
On the very day Edward Albee died his 1996 play had its Los Angeles premiere.
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Arts

Jean Genet’s “The Maids”: Uncivil servants in Pasadena
September 29, 2016 By Ed Rampell
"The Maids" focuses on characters often overlooked in the arts - lowly, unlettered, relatively unskilled, servile, manual laborers.
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Arts

“Macbeth”: A specter haunts the Los Angeles Opera
September 26, 2016 By Ed Rampell
LA Opera's outstanding production of Giuseppe Verdi's operatic version of Macbeth is simply one of its best.
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Arts

Greg Palast’s “Best Democracy Money Can Buy”: Billionaires and ballot bandits
September 22, 2016 By Ed Rampell
The film's central focus is an alleged conspiracy to nullify the votes of at least 1 million mostly minority people at the polls.
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Arts

“Bridget Jones’s Baby”: Good fun for women and men
September 19, 2016 By Ed Rampell
The story has lots of laughs generated by sight gags, broad slapstick, witty dialogue and many mature references (minus snickering) to sex, body functions, body parts and paternity.
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