Mike Leigh Starts Work on New Film Shooting This Year with Support from Team Behind ‘Hard Truths’
While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards ...
Mike Leigh already has eyes on his next project
Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...
Mike Leigh to Shoot Next Film This Year
On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker not exactly ...
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“Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming
Mohammed Amer’s unlikely comedy about a family of Palestinian refugees in Houston returns for a season that’s sillier, sadder ...
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Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths Is Powerful and Tormenting
Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often ...
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Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths Pays Attention to a Woman’s Rage
I’m a sick woman,” says Pansy Deacon, the newest in a long line of demanding heroines on offer from filmmaker Mike Leigh. By the time we hear this in Leigh’s Hard Truths, none of us, neither on-screen ...
2025 Oscar nominations: The biggest snubs and surprises
The members of the film academy voted to honor a few outliers — and overlook a couple of hopeful contenders — at the 97th ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’
Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the ...
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‘It’s heartbreaking when your body turns against you’: The personal story that inspired Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man
A reboot of the classic 1941 film,Wolf Man sticks to the original premise. We meet a young family ... Australian director Leigh Whannell first made waves as the star and co-creator of horror ...