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 ...

Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

Here, Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results are as satisfyingly funny, bittersweet, and sad as fans could want.

Directed by Mike Leigh. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, Jonathan Livingstone. 12A cert, limited release, 97 min The latest ...

According to Yang, Lorne hasn’t even shared many details with them regarding what the special is going to look like. But also the headline is, no one knows what’s going to happen because the ...

Leigh’s latest film, Hard Truths, follows Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a bitter housewife who takes out her consternation on her husband, son, and everyone around her until she finally snaps.

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste was named actress of the year for her role in Hard Truths, Mike Leigh’s London-set drama comedy, which tells the story of a woman who suffers from depression and her ...

The Brutalist is poised to win big at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards on Friday. According to the official Gold Derby odds, ...

For Bowen Yang, that was Nancy Meyers’ 2003 rom-com Something’s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson: “You better be in motherf*cking love if you’re gonna ditch Keanu Reeves in ...

By Lindsay Zoladz In March 1964, at a swinging London party, Marianne Faithfull got a record deal without singing a note. Andrew Loog Oldham, the brash young manager of the Rolling Stones ...