In watching Hard Truths, the first film from writer-director Mike Leigh since 2018’s Peterloo, it’s hard not to think of the film in conjunction with the rest of his career, and in a way ...

and while “Urchin” lacks the sadism of Mike Leigh’s Thatcherite-era scream, it’s a credit to Dillane’s remarkable performance that the two movies seem capable of holding a conversation ...

I know – hyperbole. But the film, from inimitable British director Mike Leigh, is about a walking, talking hyperbole played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste in one of the most unforgettable ...

British maestro Mike Leigh’s 23rd feature, Hard Truths, is an intense yet compassionate character study of Pansy Deacon (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a far from likeable person at first sight.

Sally Hawkins, fabled for her performances in Mike Leigh films like “Happy-Go-Lucky” and “All or Nothing,” and for her work in “The Shape of Water,” “Blue Jasmine,” “Spencer,” ...

It’s like an open window. Once you open it, you can’t close it again.” Of course, Mike Leigh and “Naked” came to mind while prepping the film, but also “Career Girls” and “High ...

Mike Leigh, Alex Gibney, Viggo Mortensen, Cynthia Nixon, Tessa Ross and many more, also called out the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ for its “lack of support” for “No Other ...

The bubbliness of her character in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky or the disarming warmth of her part in the Paddington films is still present in her portrayal of foster mother Laura, who takes in ...

It’s like a Mike Leigh movie where someone also stabs themselves in the mouth. Hawkins plays Laura like a real, pathetic, dangerous person who just happens to be up to something unimaginably ...

Or were you deliberately trying to shut out the comparisons? DICKINSON: Obviously, I grew up on the likes of Mike Leigh, Shane Meadows and Ken Loach, and I was really enthralled by that kind of ...

MCA underwent layoffs, with the Nashville label cuts staff and will restructure as a smaller unit under Mike Harris, ...