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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2005 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Catch Them — and Kill Them — if You Can

  published December 22, 2005

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• Double Fault

  published December 15, 2005

  Photo by Clive CooteI hate to second-guess my colleagues, but I’m wondering if all those critics who fell over themselves in praise o... More >>

• What Lies Beneath

  published December 15, 2005

  Sony Pictures Classics/Les Films du LosangeGeorges and Anne, a couple hounded by the relentless gaze of an unidentified video... More >>

• Lions and Witches and Wardrobes — Oh My!

  published December 8, 2005

  Photo by Phil BrayWhile pundits and the press witter on about whether C.S. Lewis’ ageless tales of Narnia are too Christian, or no... More >>

• Lonesome Doves

  published December 8, 2005

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• Presto Chango

  published December 1, 2005

  Photo by Patrick RedmondThe mainstreaming of drag in movies has become a cutesy way for filmmakers to sidle up to cultural... More >>

• Global Currency

  published November 24, 2005

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• Back in Black

  published November 17, 2005

  Photo by Suzanne TennerGiven the gift many rock stars have for running their lives — and deaths — as if they were bad movie... More >>

• Elizabethtown

  published November 10, 2005

  Photo by Alex BaileySniff all you like at the Bridget Jones franchise, Bride & Prejudice and all other past and future... More >>

• Holistic Healer

  published October 27, 2005

  Photo by Ted SoquiGidi Dar, the firmly secular director of a sympathetic new movie about a fundamentalist Jewish sect, doesn’... More >>

• Iron Miner’s Daughter

  published October 20, 2005

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• The Knightly News

  published October 13, 2005

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• Smart & Smarterer

  published October 13, 2005

  Photo by Kevin ScanlonWhen you look like Jeff Daniels — more Heartland than Hollywood handsome, with a twinkly eye and a goofy grin alway... More >>

• Chameleon

  published September 29, 2005

  Attila Dory, courtesy of UnitedArtists/Sony Pictures ClassicsBorn to play Truman Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the famously... More >>

• The Full Wilkinson

  published September 15, 2005

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• Schreiber’s Very Bright Picture

  published September 15, 2005

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• Inside, Outside

  published September 15, 2005

  A friend with taste gave me Monica Ali’s best-selling Brick Lane, a rich saga, by way of Dickens and Naipaul, of a rura... More >>

• TB and Sympathy

  published August 25, 2005

  Photo by Jaap Buitendijk Part love story, part splenetic rant over the unholy union between corporate greed and political... More >>

• The Secret Lives of Cheetahs

  published August 25, 2005

  Photo by David Bloomer Unless you live in Chicago, the chances of your seeing a wonderfully grown-up new children’s film in a movi... More >>

• Where the Wild Things Are

  published August 11, 2005

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• Judging Amy

  published August 4, 2005

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• Cool Britannia

  published August 4, 2005

  Photos by Ted SoquiI don’t hang out much with other British expats. Why move all the way to Los Angeles if all you’re going to do is s... More >>

• Sex and Drugs and Sex and Rock & Roll

  published July 28, 2005

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• Nevermind

  published July 21, 2005

  Near the end of Gus Van Sant’s fictionalized elegy to Kurt Cobain, the rock star, barely disguised as a disintegrating musician name... More >>

• Full Body Massage

  published July 14, 2005

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