Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

His brother constantly berates him in between roaming the streets with his friend, the skinhead Coxy (Oldman). Their aunt, ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Hard Truths: filmmaker Mike Leigh returns for the first time since 2018 with this incredible human drama, and it deserves ...

The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly three decades after his Oscar-nominated ‘Secrets & Lies’ ...

From acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh, comes Hard Truths. Starring BAFTA award- winner Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering study of everyday misery ...

Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...

Mike Leigh re-teams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the story of a woman against the world. Read the Empire review.

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

In the many beautifully observed working-class dramedies he's made over the past five decades, the British writer and ...