Jon Batiste performed 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at the 2025 Super Bowl, as cameras captured President Donald Trump saluting from his box at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans and Kansas City Chiefs ...

Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

Bleecker Street released Leigh’s latest drama Hard Truths nationwide in the U.S. on January 10 after an awards qualifying run ...

From acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh, comes Hard Truths. Starring BAFTA award- winner Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele ...

Brian Bowe reviews Mike Leigh's latest, Hard Truths, a tragi-comedy character study featuring an incredible turn from ...

Although Pansy is challenging to be around, her sister, Chantelle, played by Michele Austen, refuses to give up on her. Chantelle offers comfort, hoping Pansy will eventually let her guard down enough ...

Jean-Baptiste has already earned a BAFTA nomination ... traumatised to offer any help but her big-hearted sister Chantelle (Michele Austin, excellent in her fourth Leigh film) tries to provide ...

In the middle of another miserable London winter we could all do with a bit of a cheering up. What we all need is a good bit of Mike Leigh, right? Wrong? Well, right actually. The king of English ...

In addition to the stresses of the Oval Office, several presidents have had to contend with the blushes caused by their own family.

Hard Truths, the latest film by British director Mike Leigh, features Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a woman who is angry at the world.

The immaculate outside of Pansy’s (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) suburban house disguises ... yet her sister Chantal (Michele Austin), who is her complete opposite, is more tolerant and desperately ...