Helen Mirren

Red 2 Isn't Great, but Helen Mirren? Fabulous

Helen Mirren Plays Queen Elizabeth II Again: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 28 Helen Mirren reclaims the crown in a live broadcast of Peter Morgan's new play, The Audience, on Saturday. Mirren and Morgan previously collaborated on award-winning film The Queen, proving they've got the goods in capturing the essence of ... More >>

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

Scent of a Record Producer

Hitchcock Review: Shouldn't the Making of Psycho Be More Interesting?

Food News Roundup: The Spam Factory, Prehistoric BBQ Evicting Paula Deen's Chickens

-- The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret. [Mother Jones] -- More fun with Rioja: "Overcoming my squeamishness, I drew my finger across the grim black mold that clung to one of the bottles." [Zester Daily] -- Prehistoric BBQ Leftovers Found. 8,000 years ago. Aurochs. Proving that summer grilling season ... More >>

Page Two: Sheila E.: The Helen Mirren of Pop

Forget your modernist Krush Groove hairdo fantasies: Prince's right-timbal woman is hotter than ever

Secret Afterparties and Surprise Set-Lists: Prince Returns to the Forum Tonight (and Sheila E Talks to Us Tomorrow)

Gustavo TurnerPrince at the Inglewood Forum​ So, Prince is back for another bout of his 21 Nite Stand at the Inglewood Forum in LA. He'll be performing tonight, Thursday April 28, tomorrow, Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30 (yes, there are still tickets and you should get some; trust us ... More >>

Arthur

Arthur

Arthur

Theater Reviews: Chinese Coffee, Daddy, Love, Sex and the IRS

Also, Fatigued, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Greedy and more

THE TEMPEST

Interview: White Zombie's Sean Yseult Awakens Sleeping Corpses With New Book

​ We've often referred to ourselves as the "Where's Waldo" of L.A. music and nightlife, and now that our pal Sean Yseult has released her new book, I'm In The Band- Backstage Notes From The Chick In White Zombie, we really feel that way. Yseult, who was a founding member and bass player fo ... More >>

Red: Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever

Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things

WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A NEW WACKY COMEDY

Top 10 Killer (Literally) Food Films

Did watching Julie & Julie make you want to kill yourself? Or someone else? Or perhaps you've heard that your preoccupation with eating, your appetite for amuse-bouche, your thirst for terroir--the sort of things that would drive you to see such a film in the first place--might be symptomatic of a n ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Last Airbender, Love Ranch, The Nature of Existence

Movie Reviews: Dirty Hands, Furry Vengeance, Harry Brown

Also, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Timer, The Good Heart

UP IN THE AIR WITH VERA FARMIGA

She's more than George Clooney with a vagina.

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

Deep Purple: Precious

The sad education of Precious Jones

Movie Reviews: American Violet, Crank: High Voltage, Sleep Dealer

Also, Every Little Step, Lymelife and more

State of Play: Dead Bodies, Buried Ledes

Movie is adrenaline for a dying industry: ours

Inkheart's Reading Rainbow

Nothing like a bad book adaptation to turns kids on to the written word

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

Movie Reviews: The Bucket List, Persepolis, The Great Debaters

Also National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and more

Dispatch from the European Film Awards

Wonderful whores

And I'm Telling You...

The Style Council's Oscar winners and losers

Unromancing the Stone

In 2006, the Basic Instinct beauty showed she wasn’t just another pretty face

The Scars of Oscars

Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

The Queen of the Globes

Angelina Jolie appears to suppress her own vomit in royal fashion as she condescends to a Ryan Seacrest red-carpet chat.

Is There Anybody Out There?

What to do in Los Angeles from January 5 – 11

The Critics Speak

The First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)

The Best Films of 2006: The Year of Army of Shadows

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Haven't I Seen You Before?

It’s fall replacement time at the networks — send in the clones: 3 Lbs., Prime Suspect, and Day Break

Nothing Like a Dame

Helen Mirren takes on The Queen

Bombs, Bush & Baseball

Give 'em Helen

Film Reviews

Reviews of Monster House, My Super Ex-Girlfriend and more

Amateur Knights

Edward Wilson aims to keep the theater young

Look Back in Reverence

The British new wave, still angry after all these years

Wounded Souls

Director Kirby Dick exposes the psychic scars of abuse; TNT’s The Closer and Fox’s The Inside send their female sleuths deep into homicide’s twisted grasp

A Rheum of One’s Own

The creaky displeasures of Mona Lisa Smile and Calendar Girls

Just the Fates

Sean Penn’s The Pledge

The Ayn Who Shagged Me

Showtime gets serious

Holy Moses!

DreamWorks spins the Bible

Real Country

The farmer's life on Frontline; plus Olivier, retrospectively, at MTR