A well-to-do English widow (Helen Mirren), touring Italy, flouts convention and marries a much-younger local (Giovanni Guidelli, looking like the young John Derek), a dentist's son who turns out to be far more conventional than his bride ("This is Italy! Married women do not go wandering around alone!"). This interesting …
Julian (Bryce Gheisar) has struggled to belong ever since he was expelled from his former school for his treatment of Auggie Pullman. To transform his life, Julian’s grandmother (Helen Mirren) finally reveals to Julian her own story of courage — during her youth in Nazi-occupied France, a boy shelters her …
Taylor Hackford's Cold War fable, made well outside the spirit of detente, tells of a star Soviet ballet dancer and celebrated defector who has the bad luck to be aboard a Japan-bound jetliner that crash-lands behind the Iron Curtain and the good luck to be put in the care of …
Aw, it sounded so promising. Helen Mirren bringing a little Hammer glamour to the role of Sarah Winchester, the real-life heir to the Winchester rifle fortune who built a real-life Mystery Mansion in San Jose, supposedly at the behest of a spiritual medium. Jason Clarke as the skeptical Man of …
Harvey Weinstein continues to pan for Holocaust gold with this fact-fueled, remedially-chronicled — vibrant colors = present day/achromatic tones = flashback — extermination of an otherwise fascinating historical footnote. With Streisand and Rogen unavailable, Helen Mirren assumes the role of the feisty octogenarian who, along with her young lawyer (mayo-man …