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

In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths." ...

"By the time an actor gets to the point of improvisation in a Mike Leigh process, they've got a whole person that they're working with," Marianne Jean-Baptiste tells Newsweek.

Mike Leigh’s latest comedy-drama considers what it’s like to live a life entirely of grievance.

The British actor and Mike Leigh have done more than given us another great collaboration. They've gifted us with a masterpiece of bruised humanity.

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed ...

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

The “Canzonettes” return after two years with an entirely new program focusing on the birth of the Canzona inspired by early ...

But unless you count a faux window and some wooden topiary, all of that barely gets a look in at Versailles: Science and ...

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will return to Port Townsend with a series of Sunday afternoon Baroque music concerts from Jan. 19 through July 13.

The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College is presenting "Dutch Impressionism: The Hague School, 1860-1930," on view now through February 23, 2025, in the Museum's Dorothy ...

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” Pansy, a middle-aged woman in contemporary ...