Although clearly a man of the left, Leigh (like Dickens) is less interested in society than human nature. Some of his ...

Mike Leigh re-teams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the story of a woman against the world. Read the Empire review.

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’ ...

Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the film that got away. Never more so than with his flintily moving return to ...

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living ... Michele Austin is a welcome contrast as Chantelle, Pansy’s sister, a happy-go-lucky outlier. Like contemporary Ken Loach, ...

Since English filmmaker Leigh wrote and directed 2008’s wonderful Happy-Go-Lucky, which starred Sally Hawkins as the most positive woman in London, I should’ve known a movie about the most ...

That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of ... When we got to that stage with Happy-Go-Lucky, I said, “You know, it’s somehow primary colors.” He said, “Okay, I’ll think ...

Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

SATURDAY NIGHT (15) 109 mins ★★★★☆ ONCE you’ve seen the first ever Saturday Night Live sketch you’ll wonder how the show ...