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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

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Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood’s fantastical romcom is part Mike Leigh, part cosy family sitcom

The White Lotus star is an agoraphobic movie lover who puts on elaborate immersive screenings in her garage in this sweet tale of longing, anxiety and family bickering. But is it believable?

The Guardian - UK

Urchin review – Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson announces himself as a gutsy, thoughtful filmmaker

4/5 The British actor hasn’t wasted his cinematic education, and there are shades of many of his past collaborators – including Steve McQueen and Joanna Hogg – in this striking social-realist drama

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

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Documentary on Sir Paul McCartney’s lost bass guitar among new Arena films

The new films will celebrate 50 years of Arena, which began life as a magazine show in 1975.

Evening Standard

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original

Between 1970 and 1984, BBC1’s experimental drama strand Play for Today created what is now regarded as classic British drama. It launched myriad acting careers and showcased high-calibre writing in plays such as Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party and Blue Remembered Hills, Dennis Potter’s acclaimed play about lost youth. It was…

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The heart triumphs over all things: why ‘anti-capitalist romcom’ Materialists isn’t just a fantasy

Celine Song’s new film may have hint of glossy 2000s romcom about it, but its take on the age old question of love or money has the cynicism of today

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Evidence emerges whether Travis Decker is alive as public issued this dire warning

The manhunt has entered its second month.

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Maxine Peake: ‘I have a healthy balance of inferiority complex and slightly prickly ego’

The actor on working with Mike Leigh, death by disco ball and drinking on the job

The Guardian - UK

More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza

Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties

The Guardian - UK

Best films of 2025 in the UK so far

From a dark and death-haunted classic by Mike Leigh to Tom Cruise’s final highwire stunt and Timothée Chalamet’s brilliant embodiment of Dylan we rewind six months of sensational cinema – in order of their UK release date

The Guardian - UK

Imelda Staunton and her daughter Bessie Carter: ‘I saw Mum on stage marrying a stranger and started to cry’

INTERVIEW: The mother and daughter make a marvellous pair on stage in ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’. Claire Allfree sits down with the duo to talk Academy Awards, the Harry Potter reboot, and what younger actors can learn from the late Queen’s work ethic

The Independent UK

Eddie Marsan: ‘You are never gonna satisfy racists – it’s their hobby, they’re addicted to it’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The prolific actor plays an American forensic expert in the BBC’s new drama ‘The Bombing of Pan Am 103’. Eddie Marsan talks to Hannah Ewens about how he escaped typecasting, where Keir Starmer is failing, how to deal with racists, and his future as a director

The Independent UK

Susan Sarandon among hundreds to urge BBC to release delayed Gaza film

Open letter signed by more than 600 industry figures says corporation is failing in its journalistic responsibility

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‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage

The curator of the BFI’s Black Debutantes season on piracy, truncated careers and the frustrations of dealing with big studios

The Independent UK

Kym Marsh: ‘No more marriages for me. Three strikes and I’m out!’

INTERVIEW: The singer and actor parlayed her Noughties fame on ‘Popstars’ into an unpredictable career across stage, screen – and the cobbles. As her new play ‘Abigail’s Party’ rakes in rave reviews in Manchester, she sits down with Alim Kheraj to talk relationships, tabloid attention, and why she still speaks…

The Guardian - UK

How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’

‘I wanted to do an Australian Mike Leigh film. I was convinced it was terrible – but we showed it at Cannes and they went crazy. Audiences had never seen a character like that treated sympathetically’

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Mike Bradwell obituary

Experimental theatre director who founded the aggressively countercultural Hull Truck company

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Abigail’s Party review – woozy, boozy Beverly throws her party from hell once again

This version of Mike Leigh’s classic brings out the boozy claustrophobia, while Kym Marsh as Beverly and Tupele Dorgu as Susan brilliantly draw out the sadness of suburban dreams

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: A Real Pain and the best mismatched buddy movies

Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin’s bickering double act follows in the footsteps of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, via Tom Hanks and his dog

The Guardian - UK

Bong Joon Ho: ‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy, but I’m just thinking about nap time’

How do you follow up an Oscar winner like Parasite? If you’re the South Korean auteur, you make a sci-fi satire where Robert Pattinson dies over and over again. The director discusses the inspirational Loach and Mike Leigh and why it’s hard being a ‘middle-aged film-maker’

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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 Independent 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’

Evening Standard

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

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