Goodbye June review: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is shamelessly sentimental – but it could run and run
The bar for ‘Christmas classic’ has fallen so low that this could be a contender. It’s not the worst example actually
Mike Leigh
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We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
‘I knew she was going to pull this off’: Sean Baker takes a back seat to Shih-Ching Tsou for Left-Handed Girl
The long-time collaborators join up again for a frenetic, characterful, lovely tale set in the night markets of Taipei
Hard Truths review: Mike Leigh makes a moving return to the domestic miseries of north London
This study of a perpetually sad and pathologically abrasive woman is a rough-hewn marvel
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
Out of Character by Alison Steadman: A lively and undemanding memoir by an actor only a monster could fail to love
Though there is grist and insight here, for the most part this is a saunter through a largely happy life
‘People assume I was having play dates with Lily Allen and Peaches Geldof. We didn’t know anyone in show business’
Leo Leigh grew up in the film world. In Sweet Sue, his first feature, his approach to movie-making has produced one of the year’s most complex female characters
Godzilla used to be a metaphor for nuclear horror. Nowadays the monsters are metaphors for the lumbering franchises they appear in
Patrick Freyne: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is zippy, characterful and fun, but I could do better
Mike Leigh: ‘I’m not a jobbing director. I’ve only ever done my own thing’
The acclaimed British director’s first feature film, Bleak Moments, is 50 years old
Film-maker Mike Leigh: ‘I’m predictably irritated by box-ticking on political correctness’
The director on his determination to portray ‘real people’ and being accused of pretension
Michael Palin, Mike Leigh and Christy Moore: This week’s unmissable online events
Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days
23 Walks: Top-class acting from Alison Steadman, Dave Johns and the dogs
Film review: The lead actors just about make this canine-themed movie sit up and beg for attention
They should have called it Dylan McDermott’s Sex Garage
Netflix’s 1940s-Hollywood drama is brimming with petroleum-based rumpy pumpy
Ken Loach: What’s Britain doing owning part of Ireland?
The director who has spent 50 years poking the establishment on Brexit, right-wing broadcasters and the gig economy
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