Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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The not so “Great Wall”
February 21, 2017Put your 3D glasses on and your brains into neutral to watch this vapid but eye-popping big budget picture which, at $135-150 million, is reportedly the most expensive movie ever made in China.
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Totem and Taboo and Tanna: A Melanesian Romeo and Juliet
February 13, 2017"Tanna" dispels the simplistic notion that “primitive” people living in a state of nature inhabited problem-free paradises.
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Two “All Power”-ful Panther docs at Pan African Film Festival
February 13, 2017The PAFF's exec. director, Ayuko Babu, was a member of the Black Panther Party and imbues the filmfest with its high level of political consciousness.
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Mozart opera, feminism, and Allah the merciful
February 2, 2017Director James Robinson has reset Mozart’s 18th-century "Singspiel" in the Roaring Twenties.
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“The Salesman”: Iranian film asks: Is this the enemy?
January 26, 2017“The days of cinema giving answers is over. Cinema should ask questions…"
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Amazing “Amélie, A New Musical,” now in L.A., headed for Broadway
December 21, 2016L.A. theatergoers have been experiencing an embarrassment of onstage riches during the holiday season.
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Did Donald Trump kill my best friend?
November 4, 2016It was Trump who bragged that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
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Trump — and trouble — in paradise
October 31, 2016"The Making of Donald Trump" is a new book that sheds light on how the real estate baron/reality TV star really operates.
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