Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...

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.

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 ...

In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.

Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite for Hard Truths, a hilarious heartbreaking look at hate versus acceptance. Read ...

Mike Leigh calls America 'Trump Land' and worries that the country's population doesn't fully grasp the threat he poses.

The co-stars, who first played sisters in a 1993 Mike Leigh play, explain the iconoclastic director's unique method and how ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first ...

The legendary English filmmaker gushed about Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner during a recording of THR's 'Awards Chatter' ...

The director's latest misanthropic drama, following such films as "Bleak Moments" and "Naked," is a puckeringly sour delight, ...

With Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Clint Eastwood and Taylor Hackford in the race, it could have gone a number of ways ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director ...