Helen Mirren

Trumbo (2015) movie review: Bryan Cranston delivers a phenomenal performance as the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites: Al Pacino and Helen Mirren in Phil Spector. Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites The 2013 Emmy nominations were announced earlier today by the Academy of Television Arts…

European Film Awards: Michael Haneke Best Director record as 2 French cinema veterans win their 1st award + Annie Awards bypass blockbusters.

Michelle Williams and Elle Macpherson: Golden Globes’ Best Actress and Top Model as Marilyn Monroe spirit revisited.

Allison Janney, Emma Stone, The Help Sept. 8 update: The Help was once again the no. 1 movie at the U.S. and Canada box office on Tuesday, Sept. 7, grossing…

The Queen with Helen Mirren and James Cromwell. A more sober tone would have made Stephen Frears’ filmization of Peter Morgan’s The Queen screenplay less appealing to a mass audience.…

The Social Network and a Big Surprise: ACE Awards as Steven Spielberg paid homage to Michael Kahn and Christopher Nolan to film editing.

For Colored Girls box office: The latest Tyler Perry drama has been a major commercial disappointment despite its stellar cast (Kerry Washington et al.).

Jackass 3D box office: This (sorta) record-breaking Paramount comedy provides further evidence that moviegoers want creative and quality fare.

Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. One of this year’s AFI FEST offerings along with “fantasy soccer” by way of Looking for Eric, Viggo Mortensen’s dystopian reality in…

Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, “given to an individual whose body of work in the film industry has richly…

White couple, black baby: Sophie Okonedo as black daughter of white parents in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin…

Javier Bardem Oscar Winner, Kristin Chenoweth singing That’s How You Know and composer Dario Marianelli at the Academy Awards.

Jon McLaughlin ‘So Close.’ Enchanted song. Jon McLaughlin ‘So Close’: Oscar ceremony At the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony, singer Jon McLaughlin performed “So Close,” the Oscar-nominated song from Kevin Lima’s…

European Film Awards: Veterans Jeanne Moreau and Liv Ullmann + Alain Resnais and Helen Mirren among presenters, winners and honorees.

Helen Mirren young: Hot future British Queen back in the 1960s. Helen Mirren young: Hot future Queen Helen Mirren, the odds-on favorite to take home this year’s Best Actress Academy…

SAG Awards: British Dames Julie Andrews and Helen Mirren are top winners + immigration and identity theft drama wins Sundance + Gong Li leads Hong Kong.

Academy Awards: Mexicans Invade the Oscars and the British are back in one of most international Oscars in history while Pedro Almodóvar shockingly snubbed.

WGA Awards go for populist + outlandish screenplays while last year’s Maurice Richard leads Genie nods and Storm thriller among Guldbagge contenders.

Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?

Helen Mirren Queen Elizabeth double + Leonardo DiCaprio triple awards season dose while Mexican directors surprise as US critics’ favorites.

Star-struck Golden Globes’ + Broadcast Critics’ Choice Awards’ nominations range from Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck to Mel Gibson and Leonardo DiCaprio x2.

Romanian actress + suburban Emma Bovary and 1969 French World War II drama + the Great Kazakh hope: Major surprises among US film critics choices.

National Board of Review Winners: First Foreign-Language Best Film in almost 6 decades shows key World War II battle from the Japanese side.