It’s well into the second act of “Urchin,” writer/director Harris Dickinson’s searing portrait of addiction and homelessness ...

Mike Leigh movies feel like a magic trick. Observational, wry, funny, devastating and always rooted in character, Leigh allows us to take in some of the most fascinating people, the milieu they ...

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" star Frank Dillane is brilliant as a homeless London drug addict who struggles to ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first postmenopausal cinematic antiheroine to ask to speak to a manager. But she is — ...

The international rights for the project will likely be sold at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths ...

Some filmmakers have the whole movie in their heads before the first actor gets cast. On the other end of that spectrum. Some directors just kind of roll tape and let the movie happen. Then figure ...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. We also shout-out the podcast Devised and ...

The Venice Film Festival continued its ascent this year, rivaling Cannes — long the undisputed king of all film festivals — in its capacity to draw stars, spark debate and drive sales of first-rate ...

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell ...

We welcome director Mike Lee back to the show. He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to reunite with actor... Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths,' James Bond and more Some ...