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Two months ago Moses Blah was under arrest for attempting to mount a coup against Liberian President Charles Taylor. Now he is to succeed him.
Declaring "history will be kind to me", Taylor handed over power Monday after 14 years at ... Charles Taylor stands accused of backing the former armed Sierra ...
By Compiled Laura McClure
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
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Howard Hawks' oddball, indoor western, "Rio Bravo," champions the hidden powers of misfits and losers.
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: The great American movie. Howard Hawks' oddball, indoor western, "Rio Bravo," champions the hidden powers of misfits and losers. ...
By Charles Taylor
Tuesday, May 5, 1998
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Dodgeball, "the most egalitarian of games"? Tim Russert, underappreciated? Salon readers come to their defense -- and pipe up in favor of Bollywood and Steven Spielberg, too.
Charles Taylor has written a thoughtful and welcome review of "Dilwale Dulhania ... Charles Taylor writes, in his review of "The Terminal": "Viktor is the man she's ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
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Are comic books art? Maybe, but this leaden, pretentious flick about Marvel Comics' big green id, from the overrated Ang Lee, is just schlock art for the NPR set.
By Charles Taylor. Will somebody please get Ang Lee away from popular culture -- anybody's popular culture? Lee's "The Hulk" has less of a feel ...
By Charles Taylor
Friday, June 20, 2003
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A powerful movie tells the true story of an innocent man and the trial that ended the death penalty in England.
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Invitation to a lynching. A powerful movie tells the true story of an innocent man and the trial that ended the death penalty in England. ...
By Charles Taylor
Wednesday, August 19, 1998
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So the editor of Variety thinks film criticism is pointless elitism. Does he speak for the moviegoing public -- or the Hollywood studio execs and corporate media bigshots who'd like to ditch the critics?
By Charles Taylor. Sometimes I think the day-to-day lives of most movie critics could be summed up by a line Amy Madigan speaks in "Streets of Fire" ...
By Charles Taylor
Monday, January 13, 2003
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Ernst Lubitsch's legendary comedy stirred controversy by pitting vain Polish actors against buffoonish Nazi killers.
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Camp classic. Ernst Lubitsch's legendary comedy stirred controversy by pitting vain Polish actors against buffoonish Nazi killers. ...
By Charles Taylor
Monday, November 2, 1998
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Tarantino's talent can be dizzying, and Uma Thurman and David Carradine have great chemistry. But all it adds up to is that Q.T. seems to revere every movie he's ever seen.
By Charles Taylor. Toward the end of "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" David ... Oh, and there's a poster for the Charles Bronson movie "Mr. Majestyk," which was based on ...
By Charles Taylor
Friday, April 16, 2004
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Salon's critics pick the year's finest films -- from the modest "Before Sunset" to the operatic "House of Flying Daggers" to the magical "A Very Long Engagement" to the triumphantly weird "Incredibles" and "SpongeBob."
Charles Taylor's 10 Best Films. 1) "House of Flying Daggers" and "Hero" ... 6) "Ray" -- Taylor Hackford's beautifully directed biopic didn't make the ...
By Stephanie Zacharek and Charles Taylor
Friday, December 24, 2004
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Ann Coulter dishes out a fresh bookful of hypocrisy, distortion and half-crazed rants. Can't conservatives find a better champion than this?
By Charles Taylor. Golly, it's tough being a conservative! Here's a typical day that a member of the American right must endure as imagined by ...
By Charles Taylor
Thursday, June 27, 2002
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Claire Denis' baffling and exhilarating "Billy Budd" smolders with heat-blasted rhythms and supercharged acting.
By Charles Taylor. Perhaps better than any other current French filmmaker, Claire Denis ... Charles Dickens' description of the scene ("more like a man who was ...
By Charles Taylor
Friday, March 31, 2000
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The world looked away when evil swept through Rwanda. Ten years later, a movie demands that we finally open our eyes.
By Charles Taylor. In "Hotel Rwanda" it's a few days into the 1994 genocide in which the majority Hutu tribe would eventually slaughter nearly a ...
By Charles Taylor
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
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The film of novelist Iris Murdoch's life suffers from PBS syndrome, but Dame Judi Dench cures with a moving portrayal of life with Alzheimer's.
By Charles Taylor. As a biography of the novelist and philosopher Dame ... The screenplay, by Eyre and Charles Wood, is based on Bayley's two memoirs, ...
By Charles Taylor
Friday, December 14, 2001
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Reagan played the villain in his last movie -- a cynical gangster flick called "The Killers" -- and it's a perfect antidote to the deluge of adoring media coverage.
By Charles Taylor "I believe in larceny. Homicide is against my principles." That's Ronald Reagan speaking, in his last film role as mobster Jack ...
By Charles Taylor
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
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In a burst of fresh air for French film, "Mina Tannenbaum" is a movie about the messy, painful side of female friendships.
By Charles Taylor. A few weeks ago two women friends of mine were having a conversation in which they admitted to one another that they were each ...
By Charles Taylor
Tuesday, June 16, 1998
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The great French director Jacques Rivette sings the everyday ecstasies of life in Paris.
By Charles Taylor. In movies, as in novels, length is often equated with importance. When a movie creeps past the two-and-a-half hour mark ("Oscar ...
By Charles Taylor
Wednesday, September 2, 1998
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Walter Hill's trashy extravaganza "Streets of Fire" packs a bittersweet, youthful wallop.
By Charles Taylor. There are all kinds of pop culture iconography floating around in Walter Hill's "Streets of Fire": rock stars; outlaw biker gangs; ...
By Charles Taylor
Tuesday, June 2, 1998
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In his surprisingly straightforward memoir, Bob Dylan takes us through his explosive early years, the curse of being "the conscience of his generation" and, more recently, his artistic redemption.
By Charles Taylor. Wide open. That's how Times Square looks in the 1960 photo on the cover of the first volume of Bob Dylan's memoirs, "Chronicles. ...
By Charles Taylor
Friday, October 8, 2004
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One of the biggest Indian movies of all time has finally reached America -- and deserves to translate into a big success here, too.
By Charles Taylor. In Zhang Yimou's 1999 film "The Road Home" a poster for the movie "Titanic" hangs on the wall of an elderly widow's modest home ...
By Charles Taylor
Thursday, June 17, 2004
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A sexual history of the Grand Tour reveals the fleshly temptations proper young Englishmen and women found -- and succumbed to -- in all those exotic lands.
By Charles Taylor. What's travel without the promise of sex? The roast without the gravy, the vodka martini without the twist, the ice cream without ...
By Charles Taylor
Friday, May 31, 2002
