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Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

Written and directed by Drew Hancock, Companion is a survival thriller that solders together narrative circuitry from Ex ...

Jean~Baptiste is a Haitian American hip-hop artist from Worcester, Massachusetts (Tampa Bay-based), known for his ...

Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

Leigh's 'Hard Truths' collaborators Bleecker Street, StudioCanal, Cornerstone and Film4 are reuniting on the untitled project ...

Bleecker Street released Leigh’s latest drama Hard Truths nationwide in the U.S. on January 10 after an awards qualifying run ...

At first glance, Companion (15A) seems to be an inventive and blackly comic thriller about what might happen if humanity ...

The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's ...

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine, author and actress who inspired and helped write some of the ...

‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...