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Thank God for Helen Mirren. It is thanks to her that actors playing the Queen no longer restrict themselves to turning in creaky impersonations.

Wish yourself a happy one in the comments. There's no way there's been no Scorpios Saggitarians reading.

Sophie Okonedo and Tony Kgoroge are fenced in by apartheid. "Skin" has the absurdity of a Kurt Vonnegut novel, with a character who shifts from black to white and back again.

"If you are not beautiful, you'd better be rich." Artists take risks when they push the conventions of their chosen medium.

The latest from art-house fave Sally Potter is a minimalist movie featuring some major faces.

A film is a film is a film, you'd think. But it's strange how context can make a difference.

Sally Potter's new film "Rage" will premiere on mobile phones when Babelgum offers one episode from the film per day for seven days via its free mobile application for iPhone and iPod devices, beginning on Sept.

Joan Allen tells Matt Wolf why she jumped at the chance to spout iambic pentameters in Sally Potter's latest take on love In a milieu, namely Hollywood, in which beauty is skin deep, Joan Allen possesses the kind of natural radiance you can't buy off the shelf.

East meets West: Dorothy Atkinson, Shirley Henderson and Cathy Sara in 'Topsy-Turvy', Mike Leigh's 1999 biographical treatment of Gilbert and Sullivan I can still remember my first encounter with the genius of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Among Ed Stoppard's most vivid childhood memories were family outings to the opening nights of plays by his famous father, Tom: "On the Razzle" in 1981, when Ed was 7; "The Real Thing" a year later; "Dalliance" four years after that.

A boiling soup of images prepared by a mad chef and served to customers so hypnotised with horror that they drink it blindly to the last drop.