Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths: ‘We tend to write off angry women’
Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...
The 50 best shows on Netflix in January 2025
The best shows on Netflix include The Night Agent, NCIS, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Castlevania: Nocturne, American ...
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The 25 best Netflix horror movies to watch right now
This recent stab from Mike Flanagan proves those naysayers ... Mary Harron’s American Psycho is a pitch-black satire with some truly horrifying moments as Christian Bale’s Bateman loses ...
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The empty philosophy of BrewDog’s James Watts
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
The hard truths of Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s decades-long ‘love fest’
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
British filmmaker Mike Leigh transfixes with his searing new comedy-drama, ‘Hard Truths’
British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...
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Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ Is a Bitter Pill
In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.
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Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘Hard Truths’
The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...
Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy, Too
The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.