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Are accents the victim of discrimination? A local linguistics expert thinks so.

Are accents the victim of discrimination? A local linguistics expert thinks so.

Are accents the victim of discrimination? A local linguistics expert thinks so.

The story of three women who embark on a European train-ride tour in honor of their dearly...

0 March 8, 2021 11:10 by Gemma Cockrell Alex Watkin The Dig, directed by Simon Stone, is based on a 2016 book of the same name by John Preston. The story dramatizes the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, which resulted in a discovery that altered our perception of the dark ages. I expected the film to use the excavation as a mechanism to tell a human story, but it uses it to try and tell multiple stories. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work. In total, all the film ...

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In The Dig, a fictionalised real-life account adapted from a novel, Ralph Fiennes plays Basil Brown, a local excavator with a love for astronomy, who has a reserved outer shell. Replying when spoken to, Basil is a warm-hearted, unflinchingly loyal man of few words who is a genius excavator; his modesty doesn’t allow him to say he’s an archeologist. The real Basil had a mind for academics: he held diplomas with distinction for astronomy, geography and geology through correspondence courses; ...

Simon Stone explains how he turned a dusty archaeological dig into an engrossing piece of cinema that has improbably topped the Netflix charts.

There are a lot of stars in The Dig, the new Netflix film about the 1938 discoveries at Sutton Hoo, starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, but the brightest one isn’t among the actors or the

J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Dig’ Perfect cast uncovers haunting passage to the past, writes Devine. Share Director Simon Stone’s “The Dig” floats in and around Sutton Hoo in 1939, a patch of farmland near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, surrounded by ancient woods, and scattered with people, each with their plots of earth and who spend their days tending to them. The largest piece of land holds the rambling estate of Mrs. Edith Pretty, (Carey Mulligan “The Great Gatsby”) the w...