Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Pansy

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I’d work for Mike Leigh again in a heartbeat – in fact, I’ll pay him!’

The actor moved to LA 22 years ago. Now she’s back in the UK to star alongside Bryan Cranston in All My Sons. She talks about the frightening rehearsal schedule, how she’d work again with Mike Leigh in a heartbeat, and why she’s taking up boot-making

The Guardian - UK

Wolfram review – Warwick Thornton’s sequel to Sweet Country never quite comes together

Set four years after Thornton’s blistering neo-western, this film is impressively atmospheric and has strong performances, though Deborah Mailman is criminally underused

The Guardian - AU

Netflix quietly adds award-winning 2024 drama with 95% on Rotten Tomatoes

Mike Leigh's latest movie is streaming now

WhatToWatch

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Hard Truths review – Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s blistering performance is the angry heart of Mike Leigh’s drama

Playing a raging but inwardly terrified housewife, the actor and a fine supporting cast are the intense focus of a story that cries out for closure

The Guardian - UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste on changes in US: It feels like going backwards in time

The London-born actress, who has been living in America for many years, said she hopes that ‘good will overcome and will unite people’.

Evening Standard

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of the ‘factory-like’ US cop drama ‘Without a Trace’ later, she has reunited with Mike Leigh for the blistering ‘Hard Truths’ – it’s earned…

The Independent UK

"Hard Truths" confronts an angry world

Mike Leigh and his longtime collaborator Marianne Jean-Baptiste search for answers in their latest tour de force

Salon

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Clues, improvisation and anti-pigeon devices – the vision behind Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths

The director’s trademark extemporising extends to touring suburbia to find the perfect setting for his latest production

The Guardian - UK

Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on rage, sex and insults: ‘There’s an intolerance in society now’

The director and actor talk about identifying with the angry lead in their new film Hard Truths – and why it took Netflix less than a minute to turn the movie down

The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode on… director Mike Leigh, who mines the comedy and tragedy of life

From Nuts in May to Vera Drake and the forthcoming Hard Truths, Leigh’s unique creative process gives us perfectly crafted dramas and characters who feel real

The Guardian - UK

The Diplomat season 2 episode 3 recap: fireworks in the country

Kate struggles to keep things from falling apart. Read on to learn what happened in The Diplomat season 2 episode 3 recap.

WhatToWatch

Hard Truths at London Film Festival review: Mike Leigh's unflinching new drama is an exhausting experience

The director’s first film in six years reunites him with the wonderful Marianne Jean-Baptiste – but the end result is hard work

Evening Standard

Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths' and his moviemaking struggles

When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who opposed his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people

The Independent UK

Hard Truths review – a Mike Leigh classic of day-to-day disillusionment and courage

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is exceptional as a woman in the terrifying endgame of depression in this deeply sober and compassionate drama, not without flashes of fun

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

WhatToWatch

Hard Truths: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Mike Leigh movie

Acclaimed director Mike Leigh reunites with his Secrets and Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Here’s everything you need to know about Hard Truths.

People

Marianne JeanBaptiste

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.