Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers’
February 19, 202141st & Central zooms in on what the Panthers were probably most widely known for: Audacious, fearless militancy.
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‘Marble-ous’: Russian maestro’s masterful Michelangelo biopic
February 9, 2021Michelangelo Buonarroti, that incomparable Renaissance Man, is masterfully brought back to life by movie maestro co-writer/director Andrei Konchalovsky in Sin (Il Peccato).
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Will Trump be the Orange Ogre who stole New Year’s?
January 4, 2021Dr. Seuss wrote about “How the Grinch stole Christmas," but we could be dealing with something altogether different.
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‘Donbass’: The ‘People’s Republic of Donetsk’ and more in the Wild East
November 23, 2020Press notes and critics observe that Donbass contains commentary on disinformation, propaganda and has an Orwellian outlook regarding our “post-truth” age of “alternative facts.”
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New movie musical about 1919 Canadian general strike takes timely ‘Stand!’
November 16, 2020More than a century later, Winnipeg's 1919 General Strike gets the big screen treatment.
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Documentary ‘Hopper/Welles’: When ‘Easy Rider’ met ‘Citizen Kane’
October 29, 2020The documentary Hopper/Welles, which screened at the 34th annual AFI Fest, is to film history what 1989’s When Harry Met Sally is to romcoms.
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‘My Psychedelic Love Story’: A flashback down memory lane to meet Timothy Leary
October 27, 2020Morris’s cinematic sensibility meshes well with Leary’s psychedelic psyche.
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LGBTQ, homelessness, family, prison at 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 26, 2020
Save People's World. Emergency Fund Appeal $75,000 by May Day
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