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On my radar: Malachi Kirby’s cultural highlights

The writer and actor on his secret food obsession, Lessons in Chemistry on TV and the best place in London for a nap

The Guardian - UK

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

Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry

4/5 The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly three decades after his Oscar-nominated ‘Secrets & Lies’

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Hard Truths review: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama

4/5 Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Evening Standard

The One Show is the most unapologetically weird programme on the BBC

IN FOCUS: On paper, BBC One’s weeknight light entertainment show should be one of the broadcaster’s most tedious programmes – but its jarring tonal shifts and random guest list often make for brilliantly bizarre viewing. Katie Rosseinsky explores the endearingly strange appeal of ‘The One Show’

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Aubrey Gordon’s candid look at the way society treats ‘fatness’

The author and activist argues for a shift in the way we view size. Plus: the life and legacy of Emily Brontë. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste decries lack of great roles for black women

Oscar-nominated actor says she has had to compromise because of dearth of complex roles in UK and Hollywood

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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

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga to Star Trek: Section 31 – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

More thrilling petrolhead action in the Mad Max prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy, plus Michelle Yeoh’s space spin-off is deliciously arch

The Guardian - UK

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

Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won

The wonderfully watchable pope-voting movie has 12 righteous nominations – but films about defiant outsiders have clearly captured voters’ imaginations

The Guardian - UK

Mike Leigh battling autoimmune disease

Moviemaker Mike Leigh needs a walking stick to get about after being diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called myositis which causes muscle inflammation and weakness.

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Mike Leigh hits out at ‘offensive and racist’ criticisms of latest film

Award-winning drama features a mostly Black cast

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

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The Guardian - UK

Roger Pratt obituary

Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create the look of Tim Burton’s Batman and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, as well as two Harry Potter films

The Guardian - UK

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

Mark Kermode on… director Sean Baker, who thrillingly puts the marginalised centre stage

The American indie director who made his mark with Tangerine and The Florida Project, and whose latest film, Anora, is an Oscars favourite, owes an unlikely debt to British social realists Mike Leigh and Ken Loach

The Guardian - UK

Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025

Nicole Kidman takes a younger lover, Tom Cruise accepts his final impossible mission, Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas and Timothée Chalamet belts out some Bob Dylan in the best of the movies coming to UK cinemas next year

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Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s bleakly comic take on depression offers no easy answers

If you were to ask a computer programme to come up with a title for a new Mike Leigh film it could do no better than Hard Truths. Echoing the title of his very first film in 1971, Bleak Moments, Hard Truths represents a variation on the veteran British director’s…

The Independent UK

The 60 greatest film actors of the 21st century (so far)

THE COUNTDOWN: The Independent’s culture team ranks the very best film actors of the century so far

The Independent UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste tests our limits of empathy in 'Hard Truths'

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.”

The Guardian - US

Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 5 – Hard Truths

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives an immense, acidic performance as Pansy, a woman on the edge, in Mike Leigh’s strange, morbid miracle of a film

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

The Pirates of Penzance review – not modern nor general but major fun in revival of Mike Leigh’s trad staging

Gilbert & Sullivan stalwarts Richard Suart and John Savourin ensure that English National Opera’s staging buckles your swashes; and, as apprentice pirate Frederic, William Morgan is genuinely funny

Evening Standard

The Pirates of Penzance at the London Coliseum review: bold, bright and inviting as a comic strip

4/5 Mike Leigh’s take on the production is comparatively sober, but don’t worry: there’s still humour in spades

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