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

• P.S. I Love You

  published December 11, 2007

  This isn't the first time that Richard LaGravenese, the gifted writer of A Little Princess and The Fisher King and writer-director... More >>

• The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

  published December 11, 2007

  Personally I wouldn’t take a toddler to this intermittently, legitimately terrifying tale of a boy and his Loch Ness monster. But everyone... More >>

• Grounded: The Kite Runner Just Won't Fly

  published December 4, 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 >>

• Sorry State of Affairs

  published November 27, 2007

  Re-reading Ian McEwan's Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God that Joe Wright—whose broadly grinning Pride &... More >>

• Savage Love

  published November 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 >>

• Intelligent Design

  published November 13, 2007

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

• August Rush

  published November 13, 2007

  Known for his galvanizing park-bench scene in Finding Neverland, in which he redeems a programmatically mawkish denouement with a... More >>

• Yiddish Theater: A Love Story

  published November 13, 2007

  It took seven years for Israeli filmmaker Dan Katzir to raise funds for a documentary about one week in the death of New York City's last... More >>

• Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

  published November 6, 2007

  Writer-director Zach Helm's amiable but nerveless kids' movie, about a 243-year-old toy-store owner (Dustin Hoffman in shell-shocked hair, a... More >>

• The Red Balloon

  published November 6, 2007

  If you're of a certain age, chances are one of your seminal childhood moviegoing experiences was Albert Lamorisse's lovely 34-minute The Red... More >>

• Dull Roar

  published October 30, 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 about American... More >>

• Steal a Pencil for Me

  published October 30, 2007

  Not your mother's Holocaust movie, Michéle Ohayon's gripping documentary asks you both to weep for and celebrate a Dutch Jew who maintained... More >>

• Rails & Ties

  published October 16, 2007

  No doubt about it, Alison Eastwood has picked up a thing or two from her old man. Her debut feature is slow, deliberate, assured, and shot with a... More >>

• Rendition

  published October 9, 2007

  For all its brave rhetoric about 9/11 and the Constitution, Gavin Hood's slick thriller about American outsourcing of terror interrogations is far... More >>

• O Jerusalem

  published October 9, 2007

  Retooling Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's sprawling 1972 docu-novel about the birth of Israel around a sorely tested friendship between a... More >>

• Klimt

  published October 9, 2007

  If there's one film that holds its place on my ever-shifting list of the best films of the last decade, it's Raoul Ruiz's 1999 Time... More >>

• Painful to Watch Ryan Gosling in this Smarmy Little Number

  published October 2, 2007

  How painful to watch Ryan Gosling, one of the most elastic actors of his generation, smirk and gawp and grimace his way through Craig Gillespie's... More >>

• Kenneth Branagh's Ferociously Arty, Vacuous Remake

  published October 2, 2007

  Kenneth Branagh's ferociously arty, vacuous remake of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1972 screen version of Anthony Shaffer's 1970 stage play pares the... More >>

• Valerie Harper Is Not Jewish. You'd Never Know it Here.

  published October 2, 2007

  Mary Richards's best friend Rhoda aside, Valerie Harper is not Jewish. But you'd never know it from the divinely adenoidal whine in which the... More >>

• The Price of Sugar

  published September 18, 2007

  The tainted relationship between the dessert on our tables and the suffering of those who produce it gets a horrifying workout in Bill... More >>

• The Jane Austen Book Club

  published September 11, 2007

  If you can't get enough of the Mutually Supportive Sisterhood narrative, there's every chance you'll go for this perfectly pleasant, perfectly... More >>

• Help!

  published September 4, 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 >>

• In the Valley of Elah

  published September 4, 2007

  Loosely drawn from a 2004 Playboy piece about the killing of a soldier who went AWOL while on furlough from Iraq, Paul Haggis's wildly... More >>

• December Boys

  published September 4, 2007

  If Daniel Radcliffe is hoping for an acting life after Harry Potter, he might want to be choosier than this cloying little Australian number about... More >>

• Angels in the Dust

  published September 4, 2007

  It’s not just children whom Marion Cloete and her family are rescuing in the de facto orphanage and school they’ve set up in rural South... More >>