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Toby Symonds THE 1939 excavation of Suffolk’s Sutton Hoo is the subject of this week’s biggest release. Based on John Preston’s 2007 novel of the same name - and directed by Simon Stone - The Dig finds Carey Mulligan in the role of Spiritualist landowner Edith Pretty. It is on her estate that a pair of early Medieval cemeteries lay hidden. Numerous would be treasure hunters had attempted to discover the secrets beneath Sutton Hoo prior to the excavation of 1939. Each time, the cor...

If you’ve ever pined for ‘Time Team: The Movie’, The Dig is for you. Adapted from John Preston’s novel, Simon Stone’s film details one of Britain’s most notorious archaeological digs, the discovery in 1938 of an Anglo-Saxon ship in the burial mounds at the delightfully named Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk. As anyone who’s followed Tony Robinson presiding over a three-day exploration of a Roman villa in the rain might guess, The Dig has to work hard to conjure up genuine dramas out...

It is one of the most important archaeological finds in British history, and it was made right here in East Anglia. The 1939 excavation of the...

January 25, 2021 - 12:48 PM Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — An intimate melodrama set in England just before the outbreak of World War II, “The Dig” is the kind of well-crafted, well-acted period drama not unearthed so often. Simon Stone’s adaptation of John Preston’s novel, which begins streaming Friday on Ne...

New this week: Resident Alien, Arlo Parks & Palmer Associated Press Tags:  2018 SYFY Media, LLC This image released by Syfy shows Alan Tudyk as Harry Vanderspeigle in a scene from the new series "Resident Alien," premiering Wednesday on Syfy. (James Dittinger/SYFY via AP) Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — An intimate melodrama set in England just before the ...

Recreating an Archaeological Discovery From the Ground Down “The Dig,” on Netflix, revisits the astonishing find made by two amateurs in Britain as World War II was dawning. Carey Mulligan as a landowner and Ralph Fiennes as a laborer in a scene from “The Dig.”Credit...Larry Horricks/Netflix Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021 GODALMING, England — Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon Stone, the director of the new ...

Netflix will release a movie every week in 2021. Here are the most exciting ones. Outside the Wire, Dont Look Up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and more FacebookTwitterEmail Zendaya and John David Washington in "Malcolm & Marie."DOMINIC MILLER/NETFLIX © 2021 If there’s one overarching frustration of the streaming age, it’s the glut of stale films that clog up the menus of services like Netflix. Despite the flood of new TV shows, it still feels like the roster of movies is stuck in tim...

Just before the outbreak of the World War II, a small-time archeologist was hired by a...

Photo: Netflix Imagine a faded photograph of a bouquet of flowers. Blushing rose has mellowed into apricot and radiant gold into the color of wheat, as what was once a tangible object with weight and scent is reduced to a scrap of paper brittled by time. Someday soon, that paper will also disintegrate, a melancholy idea that’s expressed rather poetically in director Simon Stone’s otherwise stuffy adaptation of The Dig. The subjects of this period drama are buried treasure and repressed lon...

Not an entirely smooth disinterment but satisfying all the same. TWITTER 1/15/2021 Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes head the cast of Simon Stones period drama about the excavation of an ancient burial site on an English estate as World War II looms, also featuring Lily James and Johnny Flynn. Class as much as gender constraints obscured the achievements of 19th century English paleontologist Mary Anning, magnificently played by Kate Winslet in Francis Lees slow-burn elemental love story Ammoni...