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

• Year in Film: One from the Heart

  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 an... More >>

• All's Well That Ends Well

  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 >>

• A Very CGI Christmas

  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 (and much lampooned) Dickens... More >>

• Bad for the Jews

  published October 15, 2009

  The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not... More >>

• The Awful Truth

  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 T-shirts... More >>

• Mr. Blood Red, Vol. 2

  published August 27, 2009

  Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his favorite watering hole, a... More >>

• Free Willy. Seriously.

  published August 6, 2009

  Late in the infectiously frisky documentary The Cove, an older man calmly gate-crashes an international conference on whaling... More >>

• Angels & Demons with Tom Hanks

  published May 14, 2009

  At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours to find out whether the Holy... More >>

• A Disciplined Duet

  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 >>

• Everlasting Moments Looks Great, But it's Ultimately a Missed Photo Op

  published April 2, 2009

  Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in, Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments is a tribute to still photography... More >>

• Nobody Wins in James Gray's Ridiculous Two Lovers

  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, if... More >>

• We're just not that into 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 two... More >>

• From Reverence to Rape in Defiance

  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 >>