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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 ...

I watched Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, there was a rare red weather alert where I live in central Scotland. The night before, I ...

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 ...

On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker not exactly ...

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 ...

Taking our top spot this week however is Mike Leigh’s new comedy-drama, Hard Truths. Starring the ever-incredible Marianne ...

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 allows technology to escape the firm grip of our guiding hand. As Iris (Sophie ...

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