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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2009 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Jeff Bridges, The Master Of Dudes, Shines As A Country Music Has-been In Crazy Heart. Will The Elusive Oscar Finally Be His?

  published December 24, 2009

  Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of... More >>

• The Young Victoria

  published December 17, 2009

  Man, British heritage cinema can be dull and boring when assembly-lined for the export market. Laboring under lampshade millinery, hair that... More >>

• Not Much Truth, But Plenty of Reconciliation in Clint Eastwood's Invictus

  published December 10, 2009

  Aside from Morgan Freeman, who makes a fabulous Nelson Mandela, there's this to savor about Invictus, a rosy tale of racial... More >>

• The Twilight Saga: New Moon

  published November 19, 2009

  Bella: I'm coming. Edward: I don't want you to. —The Twilight Saga: New Moon Worry not for... More >>

• A Christmas Carol: Burying Dickens Under a Fog of CGI

  published November 5, 2009

  It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved Dickens tale that has... More >>

• Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick in his Capitalism: A Love Story).

  published October 1, 2009

  The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in... More >>

• Amreeka

  published September 24, 2009

  Amreeka The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian... More >>

• The Other Man

  published September 24, 2009

  The Other Man Whatever initial life there might have been in a story by German writer Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) has been... More >>

• Angels & Demons Speeds Down the Track Laid by The Da Vinci Code

  published May 14, 2009

  At the end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around Paris and London for more than two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was... More >>

• The Soloist fiddles with schlock

  published April 23, 2009

  The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even... More >>

• Shiksa vs. Jew

  published February 26, 2009

  If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray's Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching,... More >>

• To Sir, With Attitude

  published February 19, 2009

  Compare and contrast Laurent Cantet's terrific The Class with any of the following schoolroom chestnuts—Mr. Holland's... More >>

• He's Just Not That Into You,

  published February 5, 2009

  The smirky, overbearing and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You—which sold a regrettable 2... More >>

• From Reverence to Rape

  published January 15, 2009

  Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in the movies, it's swastika flags and SS... More >>