AltWeeklies Wire
Tel Aviv Hipsters Have Sex, Befriend the Enemy in 'The Bubble'new
Director Eytan Fox is the voice of the new Israel — hedonistic, narcissistic, yet also more innovative and accepting than the generation of ideologues who founded the state.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eytan Fox, The Bubble
'Chuck & Larry' Pretend to be Gay & Turn Out to be Humanistsnew
I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
07-20-2007 |
Reviews
Steve Buscemi on 'Second Glances'new
Looking back at the landmark gay film that launched Buscemi's career.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
07-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill Sherwood, Second Glances
'Sicko': A Bitter Pillnew
Michael Moore's new movie delivers a harsh diagnosis to the American health care system.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
06-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko
'La Vie en Rose': Poor Sparrownew
A new Edith Piaf biopic takes the troubled singer’s life on trust.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
06-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan
'Knocked Up' Has Daddy Issuesnew
Putting the fear of life into a slacker.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Judd Apatow, Knocked Up
'Pierrepoint': Crime and Punishmentnew
The problems of rehabilitating England's Last Hangman.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Shrek the Flatulentnew
The green ogre isn't all that's bloated in part three of the hit kiddie franchise.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Miller, Shrek the Third
'Once' Upon a Timenew
Nameless romantics sing of love and loss in a beguiling Irish fairy tale.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Carney, Once
Sarah Polley: Away From Hollywoodnew
At 28, Polley begins the next chapter of her career -- as usual, on her own terms.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Away from Her, Sarah Polley
'Black Book,' 'Grindhouse' and the Relativist Holenew
When pop aestheticism reaches all the way from effusing over the ritualized violence and reverse feminism of Grindhouse to heaping laurels on a movie that pits sensitive Nazis against treacherous resisters, it may be time to get uncool and start pointing the finger.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-20-2007 |
Movies
'Everything's Gone Green': Gen Exnew
Douglas Coupland struggles in his second act.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Everything's Gone Green, Paul Fox
'Year of the Dog': Petaphilianew
Molly Shannon shows some puppy love in Mike White's Year of the Dog.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike White, Year of the Dog
Austin City Limitsnew
Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
03-23-2007 |
Movies
Dark Continentalsnew
Hollywood's Africa fetish continues with Beyond the Gates.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
03-16-2007 |
Reviews
