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New Order have announced a “definitive” box set of their 1986 album, Brotherhood, out November 22nd via Warner Music. What’s more, they’re separately reissuing the 12-inch singles for “Bizarre Love Triangle,” “State of the Nation,” and “Touched by the Hand of God.”

The Brotherhood collection features nine unreleased songs and demos from a 1985 recording session in Japan alongside remixes and their contributions to the soundtrack of Beth B’s film Salvation. Among these tracks are the full-length version of “Every Little Counts” and instrumental versions of “All Day Long” and “Broken Promise.”

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Also included are DVDs containing live performances at Brixton Academy, G-Mex Manchester, and Glastonbury, as well as TV shows from the UK and Europe — all of which are coming to DVD for the first time. Pre-orders for Brotherhood Definitive Edition and the 12-inch reissues are ongoing.

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British actress Helen Mirren dazzled on the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in a royal purple amethyst satin gown with a sweeping train at the screening of “La Plus Precieuse Des Marchandises” (The Most Precious Of Cargoes) on May 24, 2024, in Cannes, France (Credit: Abaca Press / INSTARimages)

Helen Mirren’s Height Compared to the Average English Woman

Helen Mirren is reportedly 5 feet 4 inches tall (162.6 cm). This places her at approximately the average height of an English woman.

Sometimes, in life, certain people can’t help but be working late because they’re singers. And sometimes, on very rare occasions, their give a fucks go on vacation, and they have no choice but to Mountain Dew it for you. All three of these things happened to Wallows when they stopped by SiriusXM’s Alt Nation to perform an acoustic version of Sabrina Carpenter’s caffeinated pop hit “Espresso.”

But Wallows’ take on “Espresso” wasn’t a straightforward cover. Toward the end of the song, the band — made up of Dylan Minnette,...

One of the 12 jurors who heard Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 sexual assault trial and voted for his conviction, which was overturned on Thursday by New York’s Court of Appeals, has written an op-ed for U.S. News and World Report in which she calls the reversal a gut-punch that should not have happened, as the jury’s decision was not influenced by the so-called Molineux witnesses whose testimony in 2020, in part, led to the decision to overturn the conviction.

“The decision is a punch in the gut to Weinstein’s victims — and to all rape victims, where so often the only evidence is a woman’s word,” Amanda Brainerd, who was juror 11, wrote in her piece. She went on to add, “Our justice system failed us today.”

The 72-year-old convicted rapist and former Miramax movie mogul was found guilty at his 2020 New York County trial of forcibly performing oral sex on...

Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson are two of the most beloved actors today. The pair have enjoyed long careers independent of one another, and although they found love with their significant others, the two dated for half a decade. Mirren said she made one thing for all her boyfriends, including Neeson.

A glimpse of Helen Mirren’s career and dating life Helen Mirren attends the a “1923” premiere screening I David Becker/Getty Images for Paramount+

Mirren’s acting career began on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late ’60s. She made a few appearances in movies at the time with some of her earliest works, including Midsummer Night’s Dream, Caligula, and Age of Consent. However, it wasn’t until the ’80s that she found success in the industry.

Making her breakthrough in The Long Friday, the actor appeared in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,...

(Welcome to Did They Get It Right?, a series where we take a look at an Oscars category from yesteryear and examine whether the Academy's winner stands the test of time.)

For as silly as they might be at their core, winning an Academy Award can do a lot for a person. It can bolster someone's career, signal how the industry has changed in recent years, or cement a legacy. In 2007, the Academy decided to do some cementing when Helen Mirren took home the award for Best Actress for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frears' "The Queen."

We can all agree that Helen Mirren is one of the finest actors of the last 60 years. Emerging from the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s, Mirren rose to prominence with a string of bold, transgressive films, like "Age of Consent," "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover," and "Caligula.

Hard to believe, but Cinema Retro is entering its 18th season thanks to the consistent support among classic and cult movie lovers worldwide. The new season will begin with issue #52, which will ship in the UK and Europe during December and to all other sections of the globe in January. Throughout the new season, we have an exciting lineup of in-depth analysis from talented film scholars who will be providing highlights such as these:

"The Sand Pebbles"- director Robert Wise's acclaimed 1966 epic that saw Steve McQueen earn his only Oscar nomination Disney's "Dr. Syn: Alias the Scarecrow", the fascinating journey of the adventure TV episodes starring Patrick McGoohan and the subsequent feature film version. "Somewhere in Time", one of the most beloved and haunting romances ever filmed. Exclusive interview with director Jeannot Szwarc. "Lord Jim", director Richard Brooks' ambitious adaptation of Joseph Conrad's classic novel. The film...

Helen Mirren will receive this year’s SAG Life Achievement Award and will be presented with the prize during the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on February 27.

The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession”.

Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winning actress Mirren becomes the most decorated SAG Life Achievement recipient with a total of 13 SAG nominations and five SAG Actor wins to her name.

Mirren is currently filming Golda, in the title role of Israel’s first female prime minister Golda Meir, which revealed a first look yesterday. She is also set to host Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses, a four-part competition series premiering on November 28.

Taking her first major film role back in 1969 in Age Of Consent, Mirren broke through in The Long Good Friday in 1980. She received her first Oscar nomination in 1995 for The Madness Of King George...

New Order will release a comprehensive box set of their second album, Power, Corruption and Lies — which broke them into the U.K. Top 10 — this fall.

In addition to a remastered version of the album, the group has dug deep into its vaults to provide a holistic look at the making of the album. The set includes an LP, two CDs, two DVDs and a book and will drop on October 2nd.

The band also included previously unreleased writing sessions, Peel sessions and instrumentals, in addition to many of the...

The 70th Berlin International Film Festival will honor Oscar-winner Helen Mirren with an honorary Golden Bear and homage.

The award ceremony on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at the Berlinale Palast will include a screening of Mirren-starrer The Queen.

“Helen Mirren is a strong personality whose powerful portrayals are always impressive. She surprises us time and again with her interpretation of complex characters – whether it’s Chris in Calendar Girls or Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, her portrayals are a paradigm of strong women, and it is our great pleasure to award her the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement,” said Mariette Rissenbeek, Executive Director of the Berlinale.

Among Mirren’s many accolades are the 2007 Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe for her performance in The Queen, while her stage work has garnered prizes including the Olivier Award, Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards.

After working mainly in theater,...

Helen Mirren is to be honored with a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at next February’s Berlin Film Festival.

The Oscar-winning star of “The Queen” and new HBO-Sky drama series “Catherine the Great” will also be the subject of an homage featuring several of her best-known films, including “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,” “The Good Liar,” and “The Last Station.”

“Helen Mirren is a strong personality whose powerful portrayals are always impressive,” said Mariette Rissenbeek, the Berlinale’s new executive director. “She surprises us time and again with her interpretation of complex characters. Whether it’s Chris in ‘Calendar Girls’ or Queen Elizabeth II in ‘The Queen,’ her portrayals are a paradigm of strong women, and it is our great pleasure to award her the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement,”

The upcoming Berlinale is the festival’s 70th edition. Mirren will...

Chicago – There ain’t nothing like Dame Helen Mirren, international star and Oscar winner for “The Queen.” She, along with her husband Taylor Hackford (director of “Ray” and “An Officer and a Gentleman”), were honored at the Cinema/Chicago Spring Gala on May 24, 2017.

Cinema/Chicago, the presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, is a non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to fostering communication between people of diverse cultures through the art of film and the moving image. Their programs include the Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago International Television Festival, the CineYouth Festival, international screenings, and a year-round education program. Celebrating its 53rd edition October 12-26, 2017, the Chicago International Film Festival is North America’s longest running competitive film fest.

Helen Mirren at the Cinema/Chicago Spring Gala, May 24th, 2017

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren was born in London, and...

Red deserts, sweaty brows, scalding sand and swimsuits. Nowhere does summer quite like Australia – and nowhere is it captured better than on film. But how well do you know your classics?

They’re A Weird Mob

Puberty Blues

Age of Consent

The Daughter

These Final Hours

On the Beach

Blackrock

All Men Are Liars

The Overlanders

The Sundowners

The Back of Beyond

Mutiny on the Bounty

Welcome to Woop Woop

Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

Muriel’s Wedding

Red Dog

Road Games

Fair Game

Long Weekend

Dead Calm

The Killing of Angel Street

Newsfront

Heatwave

The Year of Living Dangerously

Wake in Fright

Sunday Too Far Away

The Water Diviner

The Man From Snowy River

The Man From Snowy River

The Water Diviner

Australia

The Silver Brumby

Goldstone

Dead Heart

Babe: Pig in the City

Mystery Road

Bungala Boys

Bra Boys

The Coolangatta Gold

The Four Minute Mile

Crocodile Dundee...

There's something about Kate!

Kate Warner has quite the checkered past that she worked really hard to keep under wraps from pretty much everyone around her. Even though she was secretive, dishonest, and a complete and utter mystery, everyone loved her. 

On Secrets and Lies Season 2 Episode 5 we uncovered more about Kate's background, including being introduced to her mother and also the father of the child she gave up for adoption. 

Is it just me or does this season feel unnecessarily convoluted? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Michael Ealy and the season certainly has some perks, especially compared to the previous season, but there's just a lot going on. 

There are so many plot points crammed into an episode that it's difficult to keep up with all of them, let alone make sense of what's supposed to actually be relevant.

Every episode there's roughly three different reveals about Kate,...

Mama June is adding a son-in-law to her brood. June tells us her 16-year-old daughter Pumpkin is engaged to her boyfriend of 9 months, Joshua Efird. He popped the question 2 days before Christmas, complete with a ring, during dinner at a seafood restaurant. June says she approves of 19-year-old Joshua, mostly because he's cool with taking things slow ... as in Ciara-Russell Wilson slow. Yes, the teenagers say they're saving themselves for marriage. We know what you're thinking,...

Dame Helen Mirren as always is one of the greatest women on the planet. Not just an award-winning actress, Mirren is also famous for a dry sense of humor, her candour, and a radiant vivaciousness.

Mirren recently sat down with another actor of a similar disposition - Alan Cumming - for a CBS interview in which she says that, at 70, she's now done with on screen nudity.

In fact the entire four-minute interview revolves around her breasts, or her "pleasure pillows" as she calls them, but in terms of retiring the girls from the spotlight she says:

"That's the good thing about getting older; you don't have to do that sort of thing anymore. My pleasure pillows are purely for my husband."

Mirren has taken off her clothes on screen numerous times throughout her career starting with 1969's "Age of Consent" all the way through to 2003's "Calendar Girls" and...

This story first appeared in the March 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. 1. Age Of Consent (1969) Mirren's first major screen role was in Michael Powell's offbeat Australian romance, delivering a captivating turn as the innocent but self-possessed muse to James Mason's jaded artist. 2. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1990) A gangster's moll never has been so soulful, or so insistently naked, as Mirren's Georgina Spica in Peter Greenaway's super-stylized black comedy. Read More Helen Mirren Dedicates Roundabout Theatre Honor to Alan Howard in Bittersweet Speech 3. Prime Suspect (1991) Mirren's indelible Jane Tennison, an inspector tackling grim cases with no-nonsense ferocity,

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Now this is the last thing I expected to write about tonight, but Variety is reporting a lawsuit was filed Wednesday in a Hawaii federal court alleging X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer "forcibly sodomized" the plaintiff, Michael Egan, at the age of 17. Egan's name was published in a press release issued by his lawyer, alleging "Singer provided him with drugs and alcohol and flew him to Hawaii on more than one occasion in 1999." Age of consent in Hawaii is 16, but this isn't exactly a case of underage abuse. Variety reports his attorney confirmed Egan is seeking an unspecified amount in damages in the civil suit. The site also says registered sex offender, and former chairman of Digital Entertainment Network, Marc Collins-Rector, is also named in the lawsuit, accused of initiating the sexual abuse of Egan and arranging for Singer to assault Egan at a house in Encino,...

A schoolteacher's stopover in an outback town turns into an alcoholic bender in this infamous movie

Once in a while, a long-lost movie will resurface and completely realign one's understanding of an entire national cinema. Such a film is Canadian Ted Kotcheff's 1971 Australian outback-set Wake In Fright, a box-office flop, mauled by a critical establishment in thrall to the cultural cringe, then almost entirely forgotten and thought lost for 40 years. And no wonder: Wake In Fright is among the most excoriating demolitions of the cult of masculinity ever put on film – its Australian variant in particular – and it must have been troubling indeed to gaze into that mirror.

John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies,...

As Helen Mirren is due to be presented with BAFTA’s highest honour, the Fellowship, on February 16th at the BAFTA Awards Ceremony, it is the perfect time to remind ourselves of and celebrate the Dame’s pure awesomeness. A lady of talent and class, she is the mixture and embodiment of all the best female archetypes. She is the cool aunt who covered for you when your mom found pot in your room; the intense mistress who made you do stuff that makes you blush just thinking of it until this day; the elegant, sophisticated wife you take to business dinners and opera nights – she is everything you ever dreamed of and she knows it.

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Mirren is the winner of an Oscar, three Golden Globes and four Emmys. Her acting career spans across almost half a decade and is still thriving as the actress keeps on undertaking a variety of roles,...

Cambridge, Mass. (AP) - Helen Mirren has been honored as woman of the year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, twerking as part of the traditional spoof roast on Thursday.

Mirren at first tried to sign the word "twerk," then let slip a curse word and danced. She said she's tried to twerk privately in her bedroom and having to do it in public was humiliating.

She also joked that being honored by Prince Charles as Dame of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace didn't come anywhere close to getting the ceremonial Hasting Pudding pot at Harvard. The festivities also included a parade.

Mirren, 68, won the 2007 best actress Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen" and has been nominated on three other occasions. She also appeared in "Age of Consent, "Gosford Park" and "The Madness of King George."

She said she'd still like to play the powerful 18th century Russian monarch,...

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On Sunday February 16, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will present Dame Helen Mirren with the Academy Fellowship at the Ee British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House, London.

Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by the Academy upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, television or games.

Fellows previously honoured for their work in film include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Lee and Martin Scorsese. Sir Alan Parker received the Fellowship at last year’s Film Awards.

John Willis, Chairman of BAFTA, said: “Dame Helen Mirren receives the Fellowship as one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation. Dame Helen’s incredibly successful career is testament to the determination, dedication and skill she brings to each of her roles.

The Queen actress to receive highest accolade awarded by the British Academy.

BAFTA is to present Dame Helen Mirren with the Fellowship at the Ee British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London on Feb 16.

Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by the Academy upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, television or games.

Fellows previously honoured for their work in film include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Lee and Martin Scorsese.

Sir Alan Parker received the Fellowship at last year’s Film Awards.

John Willis, chairman of BAFTA, said: “Dame Helen Mirren receives the Fellowship as one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation. Dame Helen’s incredibly successful career is testament to the determination, dedication and skill she brings to each of her roles.”

Dame Helen commented:...

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest theatrical organization in the United States, announces Academy Award-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren as the recipient of its 2014 Woman of the Year Award.

“How very saucy of the Hasty Pudding organisation to offer me their award,” said Dame Helen Mirren. “As someone who adores Pudding in all its manifestations… Suet, Christmas, Treacle, Bread and Butter, Yorkshire, Plum, Figgy, etc., etc., I am so looking forward to the famous Hasty Pudding.”

Helen Mirren has won international recognition for her work on stage, screen and television. For her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 of “The Queen,” she received an Academy Award®, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award®, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress.

In 2013, she again met critical acclaim for reprising her role of Queen Elizabeth II, this time in Peter Morgan’s play “The Audience.” For her performance, she was awarded the prestigious...

A collection of original music, the game's score, and tracks featured in the game's radio stations make up the massive "Grand Theft Auto V" music collection, out now on iTunes.

Oh, I get it--69 tracks. Clever, Rockstar.

The three volumes are available now as either separate purchases at $9.99 each or as a single download for $24.99 via iTunes. The collection includes original music from artists like Twin Shadow and Neon Indian on "Vol. 1: Original Music," to the incidental music and score of "Vol. 2: The Score," and remixed and licensed songs on "Vol. 3: The Soundtrack."

The release of the soundtrack continues Rockstar's media domination following the billion dollar launch of "GTA V" last week for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It's also not the first time they've had a major launch for one of the game's soundtracks: fans of "Vice City" may recall the lavish soundtrack for that game which...

Cologne, Germany - Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren (The Queen) will receive this year's European Achievement in World Cinema award, the European Film Academy's lifetime achievement honor, for her body of work. Mirren, whose illustrious career includes roles in Michael Powell's Age of Consent (1969), Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls (2003) and Robert Altman's Gosford Park (2001), will receive the honor at the 25th European Film Awards on Dec. 1 in Malta. Mirren's most recent performance was in Istvan Szabo's The Door. She stars as Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in Sacha Gervasi's upcoming biopic Hitchcock and will reprise her role as

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Conservationist and cinematographer Ron Taylor Am Acs, who filmed the live shark sequences for Steven Spielberg's classic Jaws, died on September 9 after a long battle with acute myeloid leukemia.

His career spanned more than 50 years across more than 40 films. His first filming break was Playing with Sharks for Movietone News, which received the Britannia Award in 1962. The Taylors then filmed the underwater shark sequences for Jaws in 1968, as well as working on films such as Age of Consent (1969), Taylor's Inner Space (1972), and Orca (1976).

Acs historian Ron Windon Acs and national president Ron Johanson Acs said Ron and Valerie were still active up to the time of his illness, spending many months each year on expeditions to remote corners of the earth.

"He was a wonderful man, who possessed an innate ability to communicate with all those who crossed his path," they wrote in an email to members. "He was a humanitarian,...

Harold Hopkins, who appeared in several important Australian movies including Gallipoli (right), The Year My Voice Broke, Don's Party, and The Club, died yesterday, Dec. 10, at Neringah Private Hospital in Wahroonga, north Sydney. According to reports, his death was caused by the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.

Hopkins, who was 67, is supposed to have been exposed to the cancer right after finishing high school, while working as an apprentice carpenter sheeting asbestos in Queensland in the early 1960s.

Following on the footsteps of his twin brother John, Harold Hopkins (born on March 6, 1944, in Toowoomba, Queensland) graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1967. He then performed onstage and began his feature-film career in 1969, landing a supporting part in Michael Powell's Age of Consent, starring James Mason and Helen Mirren.

Film roles were sporadic throughout the 1970s — among those was an appearance in Bruce Beresford's comedy-drama Don's Party — though Hopkins...

The Oscar-winning actress discusses her Russian roots, her Oscar-winning role as the Queen, why she never had children and her latest brace of movies

'I learned quite early on in life," Helen Mirren is telling me over tea at the Dorchester hotel, "that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know. You, Tim, for example, will never know how I perceive you. What my ideas are about the way you are sitting and your hair or your cheeks or whatever. You will never know."

It's true. And, I have to confess, sitting there, suddenly aware of my hair – of my cheeks? – I'm quite happy to keep it that way. Mirren is frank and warm as an interviewee but you do have the sense, all the time you are posing your artless little list of questions, that she effortlessly sees right through you.

On July 26, 1945, Helen Lydia Mironoff was born in a London hospital to parents Vasiliy and Kathleen Mironoff (or Mironov depending on the spelling). During the 1950s, Vasily changed the family last name to "Mirren," and for his young daughter, the rest is history. From her breakout role in Michael Powell's Age of Consent to her Oscar-winning turn as Queen Elizabeth in The Queen, Mirren has been one of Hollywood's greatest -- and seemingly ageless -- actresses for five decades. As Liz Lemon once said in reaction to one of Mirren's famous bikini pics, "Is she a wizard?"...

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In early 2007, the 60-something Helen Mirren won her first Oscar for her regal portrayal of 'The Queen.' About a year later, she made headlines again by appearing on the beach in a bikini, and looking really, amazingly good. Usually highly acclaimed and respected grand old dames of the British theater, and veterans of many costume movies, aren't supposed to be sexy. But Mirren is and always has been.

'The Queen' will always be the first and foremost item in her bio, but digging a little deeper, we can find a much more interesting, diverse, tough, and sexy career. Some fans know her as Jane Tennison, the troubled but whip-smart police detective on several 'Prime Suspect' BBC miniseries, made between 1991 and 2006. She was unforgettable wearing boots and a dress and shooting bad guys in last year's 'Red,' arguably the biggest financial success of her career.

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In early 2007, the 60-something Helen Mirren won her first Oscar for her regal portrayal of 'The Queen.' About a year later, she made headlines again by appearing on the beach in a bikini, and looking really, amazingly good. Usually highly acclaimed and respected grand old dames of the British theater, and veterans of many costume movies, aren't supposed to be sexy. But Mirren is and always has been.

'The Queen' will always be the first and foremost item in her bio, but digging a little deeper, we can find a much more interesting, diverse, tough, and sexy career. Some fans know her as Jane Tennison, the troubled but whip-smart police detective on several 'Prime Suspect' BBC miniseries, made between 1991 and 2006. She was unforgettable wearing boots and a dress and shooting bad guys in last year's 'Red,' arguably the biggest financial success of her career.

Be Warned That There Is Both Male And Female Nudity Depicted In This List

Here we're neither talking about the extended nudity in Russ Meyer's 'nudie cuties', nor the disrobing we're so used to seeing in bedroom or bathroom scenes in movies. These guys and gals may dance, or they may not - but they are definitely naked; and in situations you wouldn't expect...

10: Women In Love (1969)

Ken Russell's autobiography 'A British Picture' tells at some length (if that's the appropriate word) of the difficulty the director had in setting up the nude fight scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in this acclaimed adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel. The most amusing anecdotes on the matter are Oliver Reed's unannounced visit to Russell's home to complain about the 'poofiness' of the unclad battle, and his further objection that the venue for said...

We all do it. But last night, Jimmy Kimmel finally said it.  When Dame Helen Mirren visited one of television's seventeen late-night talk shows last night, she wanted to discuss The Tempest, which was filmed in Hawaii. But, much to Kimmel's delight, she instead wound up reminiscing about that one time she was naked in Hawaii a bajillion years ago. "And I'm swimming naked in the water," she tells the host, referring to the nude scenes she did in Age of Consent, when she was twenty-two. But Kimmel needed no reminder. "To be honest, I watched that online yesterday," the gentleman told her. "Only the nude parts."  Okay! Watch Mirren awkwardly cover her legs in the clip [...]...

Two CGI animated movies, neither of much distinction and little helped by uninteresting 3D. Except for some fearsome bats, the characters in Legend of the Guardians are owls, all speaking with Australian accents except for Helen Mirren, though she did have her first significant movie role down under in Michael Powell's Age of Consent. Based on what are claimed as a series of "beloved books by Kathryn Lasky", it's a dull, morally uplifting tale of a battle to the death between two types of owl, the Pure Ones, who are proto-fascist aggressors, and the Guardians, who defend democracy and protect the weak. Given that the warriors don metal helmets and razor sharp spurs, much of it looks like cock-fighting.

A co-production between animators in Mumbai and Hollywood, Alpha and Omega is clearly influenced by The Lion King and centres on the rites of passage among wolves in Jasper national park in the Canadian Rockies.

Helen Mirren is so hardworking that it is tempting to take her for granted. But she is always looking for something different

Have you seen the wild look in Helen Mirren's eyes? It's as if she knows the world has gone mad, so she can do anything. The pained realism and long-suffering compromises that dogged Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect are put aside. She has been Queen Elizabeth, both I and II, and if anyone cared to propose an Elizabeth of Transylvania from the Dark Ages then Mirren could do it. Or if you prefer a bloodthirsty and lascivious pope, she is your actor. At 65, she is still one of the sexiest women on screen. It's not what she does, but what she knows.

Mirren has never been anything less than accomplished and bold, but Stephen Frears' The Queen was a confirming potion for her, a laying on of hands.

Dame Helen Mirren has heaped praise on controversial pop stars Lady GaGa and Miley Cyrus - insisting she is "thrilled" young girls are embracing their sexuality. Mirren admits she struggled to use her own sexuality as leverage early on in her career, until her scandalous role in films like 1969's "Age of Consent" - in which she stripped as the teenage muse of an older painter.

And she's happy to have paved the way for contemporary actresses and music artists. She tells New York Magazine, "I much prefer overt sexuality to sleazy, vulgar prurience... I was kind of a trailblazer because I demanded to do it my own way. I'd say, 'I'm not having it put on me by someone else...' "

"I'm thrilled young girls are claiming their sexuality for themselves. I love bold women: Madonna and Scarlett Johansson - sexy and gorgeous, but not only that. And Miley Cyrus - fantastic!

Dame Helen Mirren has heaped praise on controversial pop stars Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus - insisting she is "thrilled" young girls are embracing their sexuality.

Mirren admits she struggled to use her own sexuality as leverage early on in her career, until her scandalous role in films like 1969's Age of Consent - in which she stripped as the teenage muse of an older painter.

And she's happy to have paved the way for contemporary actresses and music artists.

She tells New York Magazine, "I much prefer overt sexuality to sleazy, vulgar prurience... I was kind of a trailblazer because I demanded to do it my own way. I'd say, 'I'm not having it put on me by someone else...'

"I'm thrilled young girls are claiming their sexuality for themselves. I love bold women: Madonna and Scarlett Johansson - sexy and gorgeous, but not only that. And Miley Cyrus - fantastic! And Lady Gaga. I love the way she's elevated pop to performance art, or dragged performance art down to pop, or maybe made a wonderful amalgam of the two."...

To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, it appears as though the Tiff Cinematheque is set to pull out all the stops.

According to Criterion, the Tiff, formerly known as the Cinematheque Ontario, will be bringing out a rather superb and cartoonishly awesome summer schedule, that will include films ranging from Kurosawa pieces, to films from Pier Paolo Pasolini. Other films include a month long series dedicated to James Mason, Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, a tribute to Robin Wood, and most interesting, a retrospective on the works of one Catherine Breillat.

Personally, while the Kurosawa, Pasolini, and Rohmer collections sound amazing, the Breillat series is ultimately the collective that I am most interested in. Ranging from films like the brilliant Fat Girl, to the superb and underrated Anatomy of Hell, these are some of the most interesting and under seen pieces of cinema of recent memory, and are more than...

Michael Powell's 1946 afterlife melodrama A Matter Of Life And Death has been firmly established in the pantheon of great British films, and boasts a sterling reputation as a puckish, astonishingly stylish contemplation of U.S./UK relations over the centuries. Powell's 1969 erotic travelogue Age Of Consent, on the other hand, has been little-seen and is indifferently regarded. It's Powell's final feature film, about an Australian artist mentoring his muse, and it's knocked askew by broad comedy and awkward stabs at anti-establishment snark. So while both films are distinctly Powell, in that they're ...

Michael Powell's 1946 afterlife melodrama A Matter Of Life And Death has been firmly established in the pantheon of great British films, and boasts a sterling reputation as a puckish, astonishingly stylish contemplation of U.S./UK relations over the centuries. Powell's 1969 erotic travelogue Age Of Consent, on the other hand, has been little-seen and is indifferently regarded. It's Powell's final feature film, about an Australian artist mentoring his muse, and it's knocked askew by broad comedy and awkward stabs at anti-establishment snark. So while both films are distinctly Powell, in that they're ...