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Ed Travis

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Biography:

Ed Travis co-founded Cinapse after more than a decade of online film criticism. Cutting his teeth at Hollywood Jesus for years, Ed moved to Austin, TX in 2010 to start a career in film. After running ActionFest's blog in 2011, and writing as Terry Malloy at Ain't It Cool News and other sites like CHUD and ScreenCrush, Ed's desire to try his hand at running his own film site took hold. Founded in early 2013, Cinapse is all about film discovery and discussion. Ed lives with his wife Kristina and daughter Abby. He is the Community Cinema Director at Mobile Loaves & Fishes, an organization that feeds the hungry and houses the homeless of Austin.

Reviews

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Beast Race (2026) EDIT “[Beast Race] brings a high level of quality to everything it attempts, and adds a Brazilian specificity... to create a highly watchable new entry in the post apocalyptic cinematic pantheon.” – Cinapse Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 84% EDIT “Normal is what I wanted the Nobody movies to be.” – Cinapse Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 80% EDIT “[A] gangster film, rife with heart, character development, and hilarious and personal cultural references.” – Cinapse Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 73% EDIT “One of the most surprising and satisfying scripts we’re likely to get this year.” – Cinapse Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Kill Me (2026) 100% EDIT “Day is somewhat of a revelation in terms of fully embodying a complex lead character.” – Cinapse Mar 13, 2026 Full Review The Blade (1995) EDIT “Damn does [Tsui] Hark seem to have something to say here, and he says it loud with every frame.” – Cinapse Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Bushido (2024) EDIT “Bushido is the kind of cinema that makes you want to be a better person.” – Cinapse Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Ikatan Darah (2025) EDIT “Action fans will find gnarly, well-captured melee action in Ikatan Darah, so it’s worth seeking out!” – Cinapse Sep 25, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a 2 hour, 40 minute work of art in One Battle After Another that lays bare many current failures of the United States Of America while also compelling with a heart pounding and personal narrative. ” – Cinapse Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Forbidden City (2025) 88% EDIT “Nothing prepared me for [this] singular cinematic experience.” – Cinapse Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Deathstalker (2025) 87% EDIT “If this kind of genuine love letter to action, fantasy, and metal can still be made, maybe there’s still hope that Abraxeon can be saved.” – Cinapse Sep 21, 2025 Full Review High and Low (1963) 97% EDIT “The master not only spins a damning portrait of the Japan he saw immediately around him, but also reflected on societal highs and lows that remain profoundly, tragically relevant today. ” – Cinapse Sep 14, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “Raimi’s writing and direction brim with self-awareness and energy.” – Cinapse Aug 23, 2025 Full Review Red Sonja (2025) 56% EDIT “M.J. Bassett’s Red Sonja kicks unholy amounts of ass, and ranks among the very best action films of 2025” – Cinapse Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Sorcerer (1977) 84% EDIT “Sorcerer [is] something special, one of the best films from one of the greatest to ever do it.” – Cinapse Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Diablo (2025) 71% EDIT “Diablo thrives on finding ways to make itself stand out with solid essential bones and successful theatrical flare harkening back to the earliest days of cinema. ” – Cinapse Jun 10, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “Efficient and biting storytelling is the name of the game in Jewison’s Rollerball, and I’d argue that he’s crafted an almost perfectly balanced film. ” – Cinapse Jun 2, 2025 Full Review Three the Hard Way (1974) 44% EDIT “In some ways ahead of its time, 1974’s Three The Hard Way from Gordon Parks, Jr. was a bit of an “Avengers Assemble” cinematic moment, bringing together some of the most meteoric stars of blaxploitation cinema in one irresistible package.” – Cinapse May 24, 2025 Full Review Gandhi (1982) 89% EDIT “Of course, it’s Gandhi himself who will continue to make Empire’s quake, but this film adaptation of his life brings him to the masses in a profoundly digestible and artful way.” – Cinapse Apr 25, 2025 Full Review LifeHack (2025) 100% EDIT “A middle finger to oligarchs and a fist pumping celebration of youthful rebellion and ingenuity.” – Cinapse Mar 14, 2025 Full Review The Rivals of Amziah King (2025) 97% EDIT “Andrew Patterson (The Vast Of Night) has co-written (with James Montague) and directed a new American masterwork in The Rivals Of Amziah King.” – Cinapse Mar 12, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 75% EDIT “Returning to this world all these years later and putting all your eggs in the basket of “interesting brothers reconnecting relying largely on star chemistry” was apparently a gamble worth taking. ” – Cinapse Mar 9, 2025 Full Review We Are Storror (2025) 90% EDIT “A character study filled with humanity, even when flirting with superhuman capability.” – Cinapse Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Legend of the Eight Samurai (1984) EDIT “There’s not an original bone in Legend Of The Eight Samurai’s body, the sum of a thousand pop culture influences mixed together in an attempt to form a mass market hit; but damn if it’s not gloriously entertaining throughout the spinning of its yarn. ” – Cinapse Feb 17, 2025 Full Review Eastern Condors (1987) EDIT “Quite distinctive from so many other martial arts classics and contemporary heroic bloodshed titles, Eastern Condors sends a motley crew of Hong Kong action legends to the jungles of post-war Vietnam.” – Cinapse Dec 30, 2024 Full Review
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