“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

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 ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

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

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

“Why can’t you enjoy life?” “I don’t know.” These two lines, spoken between the sisters Pansy and Chantelle in Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, get you right in the heart. And Hard Truths is, ...

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

In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations ...

Michele Austin, director Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste at the BFI London Film Festival gala screening of Hard Truths (Ian West/PA) PA Wire Her new film Hard Truths sees her reunite with ...