Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a bitter Londoner. CBC’s senior entertainment reporter Eli ...

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous ...

“Hard Truths” is a small independent film that focuses on Pansy, the matriarch of a small family living in London. Pansy is ...

But for Pansy Deacon, the protagonist of the writer-director Mike Leigh’s sublime Hard Truths, self-defense is more of a default mode. Played by the excellent Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Pansy is an ...

Hard Truths is a character study of one of the most acerbic, angry, verbally abusive, and ultimately hurt characters put to film in 2024. But because she is so negative, it is difficult to ...

‘Hard Truths’ follows a woman incapable of pleasant or even neutral interactions with anyone, including her family. Most families have that one member that can be frustrating to love — maybe ...

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 ...

In Mike Leigh's new film, Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a tour de force as Pansy, a woman consumed by rage and depression, who regularly lashes out at family and strangers. While the ...

Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months-long workshop process, in which the director worked closely with his actors to create their characters from scratch.

In other words, what is our strategy? The answer to all three starts by recognizing a painful truth: that the crux of President Donald Trump's argument was right. It hurts to hear (and to write ...

In one video from his Financial Audit series, which garnered roughly five million views, Hammer confronted 27-year-old Rachel ...

In British filmmaker Mike Leigh’s 1996 domestic drama Secrets & Lies, Timothy Spall delivered a memorable third-act monologue to his family, including the newly resurfaced half-Black daughter ...