Subject: Helen Mirren

• The Greatest Story Never Told

  December 17, 1998

• Bad Medicine

  November 6, 1997

• Reading Rainbow

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

  January 22, 2009

• Dead Bodies, Buried Ledes

  Political thriller State of Play is adrenaline for a dying industry: Ours.

  April 16, 2009

• Fist Things First

  October 4, 2007

• Five Wonders of the World

  April 26, 2007

• Royal Pains

  How the British monarchy survived the death of the people's princess.

  October 26, 2006

• The Ransom of Redford

  Robert gets kidnapped in Pieter Jan Brugge's surprisingly smart The Clearing

  July 1, 2004

• Straight to Helen

  Hudson's a bad mother, and sister, in this pat parenthood tale

  May 27, 2004

• Dirty Work

  A tale of prison gardeners is this summer's sweetest feel-good comedy

  September 13, 2001

• New Rules

  Teaching Mrs. Tingle

  August 19, 1999

• Truth Is More Lucrative Than Fiction

  Collected Stories

  August 5, 1999

• Precious Locates the Heart and Hell of Its Heroine's Struggle

  November 19, 2009