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The Dig Review: Why the Treasure Hunt Drama Should Be on Your Watch List Netflix welcomed "The Dig" on its catalog of films, and it quickly became a big hit among fans and critics. The Simon Stone-directed film is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston. It tells the story of a group of excavators and what happened to them during the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo. The treasure hunt drama features Carey Mulligan (Edith Pretty), Ralph Fiennes (Basil Brown), Lily James (Peggy Pigg...

The Dig on Netlfix: The Big Changes Made to the True Story of Sutton Hoo On 2/1/21 at 7:41 AM EST The Dig is the latest movie released by Netflix, which is a dramatic retelling of the Sutton Hoo archeological discovery of the late 1930s, which saw amateur archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) discover an ancient burial mound full of amazing Anglo-Saxon artifacts. Real archaeology (as opposed to the whip-cracking, globe-trotting type dreamed up by the Indiana Jones movies) is a slow and labo...

READ MORE Is The Dig a true story? According to the National Trust, who runs the site now as a tourist attraction, The Dig is based on a novel written by John Preston. While the film is based on the novel, many of the events and characters depicted in both the film and the novel are inspired by real events and real people. One of these is Edith Pretty who owned the Sutton Hoo estate and was the instigator of the first excavations, which ended up revealing some incredible medieval finds. In July...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The True Story Behind Netflixs The Dig How a medium helped to find buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, plus all the other stuff the film doesnt tell you Larry Horricks/Netflix A thoughtful reconstruction of an archaeological dig somewhere in deepest Suffolk feels like quite unlikely material for one of the first big Netflix hits of 2021, but The Dig has turned out to be exactly that. Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Li...

The 86ft Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, was unearthed in 1939. More than 260 items were discovered, including weapons, armour, coins, jewellery, gold buckles, patterned plaques and silver cutlery. New Netflix film The Dig, starring Lily James, Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, dramatises the find and delves into the lives of those involved in the excavation. Archaeologists Basil Brown, Peggy and Stuart Piggott and Charles Philips, as well as landowner Edith Pretty and her 12-ye...

Netflixs The Dig has been slammed as sexist for reducing an experienced archaeologist to a bumbling, deferential, sidekick to her husband. The film depicts the unearthing of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and stars Ralph Fiennes as self-taught local archaeologist Basil Brown and Lily James as 27-year-old excavator Peggy Piggott. Mrs Piggott was the wife of archaeologist Stuart Piggott - played by Ben Chaplin - who arrived at the Suffolk site with imperious acade...

The Little Things” will open in theaters and on HBO Max Jan. 29. THE LITTLE THINGS Denzel Washington has appeared in several edgy movies as a not exactly good guy. This time he appears saddled with guilt, but no crime is evident.     In this set-in-the-1990s psychological thriller, Washington, plays overweight and troubled rural Kern County, California deputy sheriff Joe “Deke” Deacon. On an errand from Kern Country, he travels back home to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s...

Rating: A little like the remarkable event it dramatises — the unearthing of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk — The Dig yields treasure after treasure. The acting glitters brightest, but Simon Stones direction, Moira Buffinis screenplay and Mike Eleys cinematography are just as cherishable. Its a film of enormous, completely enveloping charm. Moreover, it is especially welcome at a time when the rules of period drama, doubtless influenced by the success of The F...

THE LITTLE THINGS: 3 STARS "The Little Things," a Los Angeles-set crime drama now available in select theatres and on PVOD, features a trio of Oscar winners in a dark story that shows the soft underbelly of the glamour capitol. Set in 1990, pre-DNA testing, this is a story of old-fashioned police work. Wits, stakeouts, payphones, and bleary eyes are their tools; obsession and black coffee fuel them. Oscar winner number one Denzel Washington is Joe Deacon, a deputy sheriff in small town Cali...

Why Edith From The Dig Looks So Familiar Why Edith From The Dig Looks So Familiar Netflix By Mike Bedard/Jan. 27, 2021 7:32 pm EDT Netflix is laying its claim as a moviemaking machine thats not to be trifled with. The streaming service decided that 2021 would be the biggest year for movies on its platform, and debuted its plan to release a new original movie every single week of the year. The massive undertaking will allow people who want to watch movies in the comfort of the...