Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Open letter to Motion Picture Academy, L.A. Women’s Theater Festival
March 28, 2016"Dear Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, you have come under intense criticism for Cloroxing this year's Oscars..."
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“Spies Are Forever”: When genres collide
March 18, 2016The conventions of the espionage thriller meet the attributes of the musical, with lots of comedy along the way.
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“Summer and Smoke”: Tennessee’s waltz and the blindness of neighbors
March 14, 2016Tara Battani's is among the finest acting I've ever seen on the L.A. boards, and is by itself worth the price of admission.
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Last tango in Kabul? “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” and the embedded reporter
March 10, 2016"Tango" perpetuates that age-old Hollywood tradition of setting stories in the "exotic" Third World.
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Progies honor transsexuals, feminists, card-carrying Communists and more in film
February 29, 2016The Progies honor films that stand up for human, worker, and women's rights, gay rights, minority rights, peace, the environment, and against fascism.
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“Hail, Caesar!” A specter haunts Hollywood in new goofball comedy
February 4, 2016Hot on the heels of the Oscar-nominated Trumbo, another 1950s-set movie about Hollywood Reds has been released.
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“Candide”: The best of all possible shows?
January 27, 2016It's at all times innovative, witty and charming, full of puppetry, pageantry, imaginative stagecraft and Voltaire's waggish sensibility.
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“Aferim!”: The wild, wild East in film
January 22, 2016It has a number of genre conventions of the Western, though one could argue that the Romanian-set film should be called an "Eastern."
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