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.

Despite Huge Ratings, ‘Suits’ Will Likely Remain in Mothballs

Despite its record-breaking performance on the streaming charts, and despite strong support from its fans, Suits is going into mothballs, say its creators. “Let me say right off that there is no Suits reboot or anything in the works, creator Aaron Korsh tweeted. “Strike would have to end, some network or streamer would have to…

Netflix’s ‘The Monkey King’ Explores the Inner Realms of the Human Psyche

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‘Snow White’ To Debut in March 2024 Amidst a Blizzard of Controversy

Disney’s long awaited live-action version of Snow White, directed by Marc Webb, is scheduled to hit the screens next March 22, some four score and seven years after the original animation was released in 1937. Rachel Zegler will star as Ms. White in the remake, while her nemesis, the Evil Queen, will be played by…

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Saudis Relax Restrictions on Movie Industry, Attracting Filmgoers from Region

@Photo by Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures – © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Barbie may be a blockbuster in the West, but not so in the Middle East, where local censorship restrictions have made the film cinema non grata in several countries. Over the years, thousands of film lovers in…

‘Fast & Furious’ Actor Tyrese Gibson Sues The Home Depot for $1 Million, Alleging Discrimination

Actor Tyrese Gibson has filed a $1 million lawsuit against The Home Depot, accusing the home-improvement retailer of racial and ethnic bias in an incident that happened in February, according to Insider.com. The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court in Los Angeles on August 9. It accuses the store of practicing “outrageous discriminatory mistreatment…

Gal Gadot Details Her Epic Production of ‘Cleopatra’

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Sideshow and Janus to Distribute Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’

@Evil Does Not Exist Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the North American distribution rights to Evil Does Not Exist, a new feature by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning 2021 film Drive My Car had also been a Sideshow/Janus property. In announcing the deal, the two distributors said in a joint statement: “Hamaguchi is a…