Edward Moran

Edward Moran
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Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

Jewish Film Festival / ‘Rabbi on the Block’ about a Jewish Soul Sister in Chicago

Directed by Brad Rothschild for Menemsha Films, Rabbi on the Block is an engaging and heartwarming documentary about Tamar Manasseh, a stereotype-busting rabbi and community activist from the south side of Chicago. As a woman who is both Black and Jewish, Rabbi Manasseh aims to make a difference by bridging two communities that have not…

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@Photo by NBC – © 2016 NBCUniversal Media, LLC Actor Marlon Wayans will be starring in Goat, an upcoming psychological horror film being developed by Universal in tandem with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions. In the film, Wayans will be playing the role of a veteran athlete who serves as a mentor for a younger man…

David O. Russell Makes Linda Ronstadt Film With Selena Gomez

@Photo by JOJO WHILDEN – © 2010 Fighter, LLC. All Rights Reserved David O.Russell has been selected to direct a biopic about singer Linda Ronstadt, which is now in pre-production. In it,  Selena Gomez will be playing the singer, who retired in 2011, later disclosing she could no longer sing due to progressive supranuclear palsy….

Director Bong Joon-ho Demands Inquiry into Lee Sun-kyun’s Death

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@Photo by Paramount Pictures/Paramount Pictures – © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved. Tom Cruise, the versatile actor/producer, is cruising full speed ahead on a bunch of new projects, including Top Gun 3, which is in development at Paramount. He’s also shooting Mission : Impossible 8 for the same studio and is working on a…

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Paul Thomas Anderson to Team Up With Leonard DiCaprio

@Photo by Wilson Webb – © 2013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Paul Thomas Anderson will be directing a new Warner Bros. film that will feature an ensemble cast headed by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall. Few details are known about the as-yet-untitled movie, other than the fact that Anderson will also be writing the…

Tom Cruise Partners with Warner Bros. Discovery to Develop Films

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Martin Scorsese Plans Film Based on Shusaku Endo’s ‘Life of Jesus’

@Photo by Jaap Buitendijk – © 2011 GK Films. All Rights Reserved. Martin Scorsese plans to make a new film about Jesus that will be quite different from his controversial 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. According to an interview he gave to the Los Angeles Times, his new film will be based on A…

Weekend and Jenny Ortega in a Reimagining of ‘Misery’?

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