British director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic, working-class London after two successful side trips to the 19th century (2014’s Mr. Turner and 2018’s Peterloo) is titled Hard Truths. It ...

It has been 28 years since Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste worked together on a project, the pair’s breakout 1996 drama “Secrets & Lies,” which earned both Leigh and Jean-Baptiste ...

Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown and Jonathan Livingstone. Written and directed by Mike Leigh. 97 minutes. Opens Friday at ...

Leigh says he started work on his latest movie, Hard Truths, with one actor in mind: Marianne Jean-Baptiste.They'd last collaborated in 1996's Secrets in Lies, a drama about an adopted woman ...

Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s latest is a scorchingly funny drama of depression, rage – and love Anchored by Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s incendiary performance, this portrait of a woman broken by ...

Mike Leigh hits out at ‘offensive and racist’ criticisms of latest film. Award-winning drama features a mostly Black cast ...

Mike Leigh And Marianne Jean-Baptiste Reunite For Hard Truths. ... “They call them urban dramas.” In fact, Leigh admits that there’s “just a whiff of that world” when two guys confront ...

More than 15 years ago, the great British director Mike Leigh made “Happy-Go-Lucky,” a miraculously lovely film about a woman of inveterate good cheer. Now he has created a character study of ...

Dick Pope, who has died aged 77, was a twice Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose artistry and craft elevated the films of Mike Leigh as the latter expanded his filmmaking palette from the 1990s ...

Dick Pope, a British cinematographer and regular Mike Leigh collaborator who was Oscar-nominated for 'Mr. Turner' and 'The Illusionist,' has died. ... began with the 1990 drama “Life Is Sweet.” ...