Email Author Ella Taylor

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh adn Remembrance"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 11, 2008

  "The Women: Ladies Night"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 11, 2008

  "Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh and Remembrance"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

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2007 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Starting Out Novelistic and Intelligent

  published December 27, 2007

  In Starting Out in the Evening, a new film by Andrew Wagner, a pneumatic graduate student spreads honey over the face of the... More >>

• Film 2007: Hit List

  published December 27, 2007

  It’s that time of year again. Our six critics don’t always (or often) agree, but we’ve combined their top 10 lists (allowing for... More >>

• Savage Love

  published December 20, 2007

  Simmering below the squeamish elder-care euphemism "uncharted territory" is a fearful awareness that when it comes to dealing with the growing... More >>

• Grounded

  published December 13, 2007

  Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (OK, China), but not much else soars in Marc Forster's flaccid adaptation of Khaled... More >>

• Mr. Magorium Far Less Fantastical Than Its Title

  published November 15, 2007

  Midway through the amiable children's movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, there comes a speech that I'll wager writer-director... More >>

• The Upside of Lions for Lambs

  published November 8, 2007

  Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made... More >>

• Amy Ryan is Here, Baby, Here

  published November 1, 2007

  I hope people ask me, 'Where did you find that local actress?'" Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck of a single mother in his... More >>

• Rendition is an Ordinary Terrorism Thriller

  published October 18, 2007

  Late in Rendition, in case you've been blind and deaf enough not to have cottoned to the drift, a tense Washington exchange on... More >>

• Help!

  published September 20, 2007

  After Hair, Hairspray and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the '60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes, indeed, here comes Julie... More >>

• Walk Through the Valley

  published September 20, 2007

  Even the most adamantly anti-war movies about American soldiers returning from Vietnam—Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978) and Oliver... More >>

• Romp and Circumstance

  published August 2, 2007

  Oh, wipe that starchy Masterpiece Theatre moue off your face—pop Jane Austen is fun, especially when it's almost completely made up.... More >>

• Friends With Benefits

  published July 19, 2007

  I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did. Two straight guys pretending to be gay (insert fiscal excuse here);... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published July 5, 2007

  Eagle vs. Shark Written and directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement and Craig Hall. Opens... More >>

• Every Rose Has Its Thorn

  published June 14, 2007

  Uplifted beyond its merits by a stunning performance from Marion Cotillard, the humdrum biopic of Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose, jogs... More >>

• Ogreload

  published May 17, 2007

  Coming out of Shrek the Third, I asked the two smart pre-teen girls I had in tow what they had liked about the picture. Projectile... More >>

• Memory Loss

  published May 10, 2007

  In the superbly tacit chamber piece Away From Her, intolerable pressure is brought to bear on the 44-year marriage between a college... More >>

• Post-War

  published May 3, 2007

  Awash in daily news of mass savagery, collective memory grows short. We feel for the women of Afghanistan, but who these days remembers the war... More >>

• BookScam

  published April 5, 2007

  Lest we imagine that the publishing industry went to hell only after James Frey and J.T. Leroy clambered on board, here comes Lasse Hallström... More >>

• Fluff Done Right

  published March 29, 2007

  Neutrally retitled from the more pertinent Orchestra Seats, Avenue Montaigne is a French soufflé of the old school, a... More >>

• Behind the Music

  published February 22, 2007

  Morally irreproachable and flat as a pancake, Michael Apted's Amazing Grace is set among bickering House of Commoners in late... More >>

• Miss Congeniality

  published January 4, 2007

  I am sorry to say that Peter did not feel very well that evening. His mother put him to bed and gave him a dose of chamomile tea. 'One... More >>