Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

The latest from legendary director Mike Leigh is as brutal as they come ...

Mike Leigh re-teams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the story of a woman against the world. Read the Empire review.

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

His brother constantly berates him in between roaming the streets with his friend, the skinhead Coxy (Oldman). Their aunt, ...

Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...

Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from the perspective of various members of a Black family slowly rotting in London. It's also a tough ...

In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...