Amid the club of stars surfacing in two or more 2010 releases — Leonardo DiCaprio, Annette Bening, Chloe Moretz, and so on — has anyone been more ineffectually ubiquitous than Helen Mirren? The 65 year-old Brit has been working steadily since her Oscar win nearly four years ago, but apparently cracked the secret of human […]
Helen Mirren: everywhere and nowhere
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:43 pm · October 19th, 2010
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‘Love Ranch’ poster
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:12 pm · May 13th, 2010
This is the OTHER Helen Mirren film that seems to be taking its time making it to screens: [Courtesy: The Hit List]
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Scratch Mirren, Powell
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:12 pm · August 25th, 2009
One of the films I’ve been keeping an eye on as we march up to the awards season is Julie Taymor’s “The Tempest,” a re-imagining of the William Shakespeare yarn with a female lead rather than male. Helen Mirren seemed a great bet in the lead actress race and of course design heads Sandy Powell […]
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OFF THE CARPET: Handicapping 2009 a year in advance!?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:51 am · February 23rd, 2009
Ahh. The dust is settling. And on the horizon, just visible through the mist and waiting to drive us all up the wall once again: the 2009 Oscar season. I’ve been writing this year-in-advance column for probably six years now, and I always look forward to gazing ahead. No one dives in so pathetically deep […]
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