Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Dick Cheney in ‘Vice’: Was he vice president or viceroy?
January 2, 2019Writer/director Adam McKay pursues a path of disrupting a straightforward docudrama narrative with highly filmic forays into satire, speculation, metaphor and more.
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Hoagancamp’s heroes: ‘Welcome to Marwen’
December 21, 2018Although it’s flawed, I commend Zemeckis, his cast and crew for not only taking on such daunting subject matter, but for doing so in such an original way.
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Defective defectors don’t hit trifecta in new Polish film ‘Cold War’
December 21, 2018Cold War’s virtue is that, to some extent, it does allow Westerners to take an insider peep into the pluses and minuses of life under Soviet-style socialism.
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Brandli does Brontë in ‘Sisters Three’
December 19, 2018There have also been various biopics about the Brontës, but Brandli’s Sisters Three is probably the most original —- and wackiest.
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‘The Weekend,’ ‘Roma,’ ‘The Favorite,’ ‘Stan & Ollie,’ capsule reviews from AFI
November 28, 2018The American Film Institute’s annual film festival, which took place Nov. 8-15, is arguably Los Angeles’s premier annual fete of cinema.
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‘I Am the Night’ and ‘Non-Fiction’ capsule reviews from AFI
November 27, 2018The American Film Institute’s annual film festival is arguably Los Angeles’s best and most comprehensive annual fete of feature, documentary, short, animated, domestic and foreign cinema.
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The opera ‘Hansel and Gretel’ bewitches the coven of the oven
November 21, 2018Hansel and Gretel may be the most enchanting, optically opulent opera ever seen at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with its stellar stagecraft, stagemanship and eye-popping, jaw-dropping scenery.
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Politicon 2018: Socialism without socialists, free speech for the few?
November 9, 2018Politicon is to politics what San Diego’s annual Comic-Con is to comic books and superheroes.
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