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 ...

From big-budget blockbusters like Dune and Gladiator II to introspective dramas like Conclave and Hard Truths, these are the ...

Director Coralie Fargeat was in attendance to collect the award for her body horror title 'The Substance' with Demi Moore and ...

The Substance won the Best Feature Film prize at the Girls on Film Awards in London on Sunday. Writer-director Coralie ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivered one of the all-time great performances ... He is, however, credited with helping to write ...

Oscar nominations are here, and as always, they’ve delivered plenty of drama. Netflix’s divisive musical crime drama leads ...

From Emilia Pérez and its 13(!) nominations to the profoundly gross The Substance getting a Best Picture nod, the 2025 Oscar nominees addressed big social and political issues, all to varying degrees.

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In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it ...