Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...
The Mediapro Studio has added an Apple TV+ exec to its burgeoning ranks in the North America. Francesca Ricagni has been ...
Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a bitter Londoner. CBC’s senior entertainment reporter Eli ...
Hard Truths is a character study of one of the most acerbic, angry, verbally abusive, and ultimately hurt characters put to film in 2024. But because she is so negative, it is difficult to ...
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from the perspective of various members of a Black family slowly rotting in London. It's also a tough ...
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 ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director Mike Leigh builds his stories from the details and detritus of daily life.
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – With the devastating Palisades Fire still smoldering, Lisa Pelton and some of her neighbors in ...
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous ...
This week, the Australian Open came to a close in Melbourne. Madison Keys claimed the women’s singles title with a win over Aryna Sabalenka, while Jannik Sinner lifted the men’s singles trophy after ...
In “The Harder I Fight the More I Love You,” the singer and songwriter outlines the personal and professional challenges that ...
Leigh's new movie, Hard Truths, could have been titled Unhappy-Go-Lucky. It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in ...