Saw The Queen today with Helen Mirren. Chad and I give it a hearty A-. Mirren is in the running for Best Actress. I also enjoyed the directing. I had forgotten about Stephen Frears or maybe after his dark venture into the seedy underbelly of organ theft Dirty, Pretty, Things I had stopped considering him somebody I had to follow (not because of the quality, but because I was freaked for a while after that film).
But now I remember I have liked a bunch of his films, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (his big leap into Hollywood money), The Grifters…