The Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, is a significant traditional festival celebrated in China and other ...

In the many beautifully observed working-class dramedies he's made over the past five decades, the British writer and director Mike Leigh has returned again and again to one simple yet endlessly ...

Sometimes she goes out to shop or run errands, only to wind up picking fights with the people she meets: a dentist, a salesperson, a stranger in a parking lot. Back at home, she unloads on Curtley ...

When she isn't cleaning, she's trying to catch up on sleep, complaining about aches, pains and exhaustion. Sometimes she goes out to shop or run errands, only to wind up picking fights with the people ...

Why are some people happy, while others are not? Why does Nicola, the sullen 20-something in Leigh's 1990 film, Life Is Sweet, seem incapable of even a moment's peace or pleasure? By contrast ...