Tag: The Honourable Woman

  • Cannes 2021 Jury Features Five Women, Including Maggie Gyllenhaal and Mélanie Laurent

    Cannes 2021 Jury Features Five Women, Including Maggie Gyllenhaal and Mélanie Laurent

    The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the jury for the competition, which will be powered by a majority of women, including American actor-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, French actor-helmer Mélanie Laurent, French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, Austrian director Jessica Hausner and cult French singer Mylene Farmer.Spike Lee will presider over the jury which will also include French actor…

  • 7 New Netflix Shows to Binge in January, and the Best Reasons to Watch

    7 New Netflix Shows to Binge in January, and the Best Reasons to Watch

    1. “Black Earth Rising” (available January 25)Why Should I Watch? Hugo Blick, the creator behind “The Honourable Woman,” brings Netflix a co-production with BBC Two about a London-based legal investigator whose past comes back to haunt her. Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel) was born in Rwanda and orphaned by genocide, and now her adoptive mother is…