Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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“Get On Up” says it loud: He’s Brown and he’s proud!
August 1, 2014Tate Taylor's well-directed Get On Up is the latest movie about tortured artiste who acts in self-destructive ways, a biopic about "The Godfather of Soul," James Brown.
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“Buddy”: The day the music… lived
July 30, 2014Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story is a highly entertaining musical about the meteoric rise - and, alas, fall -- of the 1950s rock 'n' roll icon.
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“Lucy” evokes Kubrick, visually visionary
July 30, 2014Writer/director Luc Besson's "Lucy" is arguably the most visually visionary science fiction movie since Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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“We Will Rock You”: Screaming Queens
July 25, 2014The musical, is a sheer delight for lovers of the British band Queen in particular and of classic rock in general, with a little bit of anti-censorship, antifascist pop politics.
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“Pleasures of Being Out of Step”: Nat Hentoff, music, politics
July 16, 2014Even if its subject is unconventional, "Step" is conventionally crafted, including archival footage and photos, as well as original interviews .
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Cirque Du Soleil’s The Beatles LOVE Show
July 15, 2014Once the show begins, "somebody calls you... A girl with kaleidoscope eyes," into a production that's more an evocation of the Beatles, their music and philosophy, than a chronological narrative.
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Jan Ole Gerster’s award-winning feature debut, A Coffee in Berlin
July 11, 2014It's a surprising delight to discover a bittersweet sensibility in this black and white dramedy with a decidely jazzy soundtrack.
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“Last Days in Vietnam”: propaganda flick by JFK’s niece
July 2, 2014"Last Days in Vietnam" is so shamefully one-sided that it's hardly a documentary; it's the cinematic equivalent of putting a blossom on a turd.
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