“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 ...

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 (played ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed writer-director reuniting with recent collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker Street, ...

She reteams with her ‘Secret and Lies’ director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed with anger British director Mike Leigh’s films demand that you meet his ...

Some filmmakers have the whole movie in their heads before the first actor gets cast. On the other end of that spectrum. Some directors just kind of roll tape and let the movie happen. Then figure ...

After two period pictures, the venerable English director Mike Leigh returns to contemporary London with his acute new film “Hard Truths.” In the post-Covid present day, its story examines how pain, ...

Note: The following article contains discussion of themes including depression. Whether it's self-diagnosing TikToks or horror movies in which trauma is the real monster, it's safe to say we are ...

Mike Leigh has pushed back against “offensive and racist” criticisms of his latest film, Hard Truths. The film, a humanist drama about a woman with depression (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and her personal ...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. We also shout-out the podcast Devised and ...

Despite being the latest film from venerated British auteur Mike Leigh and benefitting from rightful Oscar buzz for Marianne ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films. And like with any shared lore, not all of it is true. One misconception, for instance, is that his storytelling is largely improvised, as if his ...