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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2008 Stories by Ella Taylor

• J'Accuse!

  published December 31, 2008

  Back in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in Boston, a prominent professor I knew was accused of sexually harassing a female... More >>

• The Wanderers: Michelle Williams finds a safe haven with outsider director Kelly Reichardt on Wendy and Lucy

  published December 24, 2008

  Not long after her lovely 2006 film, Old Joy, received the terrific reviews and lousy box office that habitually reward talented makers... More >>

• Critical Mass: The best movies of 2008

  published December 24, 2008

  Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our... More >>

• Reel It In: SLIFF rolls on with a host of events before the film fest wraps on Sunday

  published November 19, 2008

  The St. Louis International Film Festival continues this week and wraps with a closing-night party at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room at 8 p.m. on... More >>

• Go Ahead, Make Her Day: Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest

  published October 29, 2008

  On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los... More >>

• The Other Sister: Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's pedestrian family drama

  published October 22, 2008

  Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an... More >>

• Bush's Brain: Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?

  published October 15, 2008

  W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More >>

• Buzz Kill: The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting

  published October 15, 2008

  A young woman fights off her brutal husband; a gun goes off; a marble spins on the floor where a toddler sits unattended. From B-movie... More >>

• Hard-Knock Life: Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom

  published August 27, 2008

  When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt's Frozen River at this year's Sundance... More >>

• Hairpiece in the Middle East: Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him

  published June 4, 2008

  Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad super-heavy: catching barbecued fish in his butt... More >>

• Cheap Sex: Despite the labels and levity, big-screen SATC is a poor-man's knockoff

  published May 28, 2008

  Oh, please — spoiler alert? Fine, I won't tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you've already seen... More >>

• Prince (Less) Charming: Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic

  published May 14, 2008

  "Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated... More >>

• Married Life is Far from Heaven

  published March 26, 2008

  Do we need another look back at the rotten heart of the '50s nuclear family? Ira Sachs thinks we do, and as one who can't get enough of sweaty... More >>

• Teen comedy Charlie Bartlett could use a dose of mean

  published February 20, 2008

  Like most wannabe heroes of the eager-to-please teen comedy, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett is charming and quirky. Too charming by half... More >>

• In Bruges, Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick, isn't much of a trip

  published February 13, 2008

  No celebrity hairdresser should ever be allowed near Colin Farrell's eyebrows with a tweezer. Black, fluffy and gloriously unilateral, they still... More >>