Tweet Martha Marcy May Marlene Rated R Running Time: 101 Minutes Grade: A Perfect ambiguity brings filmmaker Sean Durkin’s suspenseful drama about a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) escaping an abusive cult to a daring close that leaves audiences wondering…
Author: Steve Ramos
Steve Ramos is a national, award-winning journalist whose advocacy of independent and art cinema has made him one of America's leading critical voices. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Boxoffice, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Movie Jungle.com, New York Magazine.com, Screen Daily and indieWire among others. In 2001, Ramos broke the story of a Cincinnati art-house theater snipping a sex scene from director Wayne Wang's "The Center of the World," which led the theater owner to ban him indefinitely from the theater. Ramos has programmed for film non-profits like 92Y Tribeca in order to bring independent film to larger audiences. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Xavier University and makes his home in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and son.
‘Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football’ filmmaker Rashid Ghazi travels to Dearborn, Mich. to make a documentary about high school sports but exits with story of deep-rooted patriotism
Tweet Drive Interstate 75 through the brown fields of industrial Detroit and you’ll see countless stories of hardship and struggle just beyond your car windshield. Rashid Ghazi, a Chicago-based sports marketing and TV consultant, looks beyond the despair and tells…
‘Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football’ Review: Stories of tolerance and football come together on a high school field in engaging doc ‘Fordson’
Tweet Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football North Shore Films Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes Grade: B REVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS For Fordson High School football players in the working class section of Dearborn, Michigan, the big game involves hunger, thirst…
TIFF 2011: ‘Livid’ Review: French filmmaker duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo create a frightening fantasy
Tweet Livid The Weinstein Company Rating: TBD Running Time: 88 minutes Grade: B REVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS The French filmmaker duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo are undisputed masters of horror thanks to their incredible debut thriller Inside (A l’intérieur),…
TIFF 2011: ‘Damsels in Distress’ Review: Whit Stillman returns with quirky female comedy
Tweet Damsels in Distress Sony Pictures Classics Rating TBA Running Time: 98 minutes Grade: B REVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS Up-and-coming actress Greta Gerwig and long-absent filmmaker Whit Stillman make a comic dream team in the hip and intentionally odd…
The Morning Feed: Talk Show Host Craig Ferguson Receives Letter Filled with White Powder
Tweet Late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson received an unexpected scare and some unique monologue material when two of his Late Late Show staffers came in contact Tuesday with a mysterious white powder after opening an envelope at his CBS…
Box Office Guru: ‘One Day’ Stumbles in its Debut; just like ‘Conan’
Tweet Long after the reporting of the weekend’s top-earning movies became an evening news fixture; past the rising popularity of showbiz websites dedicated solely to box office reporting, I wrote indieWire’s weekly box office column for a couple of years…
The Morning Feed: Sean Penn Slams ‘The Tree of Life’
Tweet Filmmaker Terrence Malick won the prestigious Palme d’Or award for The Tree of Life, a drama about a 1950s Texas family, starring Brad Pitt as a somewhat stern father and Sean Penn in a present-day storyline as the grown…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Christian Bale Reunites with Terrence Malick on New Drama
Tweet The summer 2011 movie season is winding down and this week’s “Get Me Ron Perlman” column, the only casting news column named after character actor par excellence Ron Perlman, starts off with news of a Bridesmaids cast member joining…
The Morning Feed: ‘Paradise Lost’ Filmmakers witness the release of the West Memphis 3
Tweet Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were in a Jonesboro, Ark. court yesterday to witness the release of prison inmates Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Jessie Misskelly after 18 years in prison. Known as the West Memphis 3 and…