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BBC News image copyrightNetflix/BBC It's late summer in England, 1939. The sight and sound of RAF planes flying overhead is an ominous reminder that war looms. The prospect of conflict troubles sensitive Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), a young widow who owns a chunk of rural Suffolk on which large mounds of earth rise up in a flat field as if the land is infested by a gang of gargantuan moles. The grassy knolls were the reason she and her late husband bought the property, they wanted to explore them together. "Well, best laid plans…" she says a little too breezily.

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 Department. Fascinated by a new murder case, Deke takes vacation days and insinuates himself into w...

Rating: The Dig turns out to be a gentle, gorgeous-looking film that provides a near-perfect balm for these difficult times. Starring the delicious combination of Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, it tells the story of the famous archaeological dig that took place at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk just before the Second World War, although perhaps not in a way that can be taken as hard historical fact.  That’s because Moira Buffini’s screenplay is based on John Preston’s 2007 novel rather than an authoritative work of non-fiction. History, in other words, has been given a bit of a helping han...

Including reviews of The Little Things, The Dig, Palmer, Jiu Jitsu, and Penguin Bloom.

BBC News By Neil Smith image captionOutstanding in their field: Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes in The Dig Excavate! Excavate! Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan explain why they chose to exhume the past in The Dig, a drama about the discovery of remarkable historical artefacts in Suffolk in the 1930s. Like daredevil adventurer Indiana Jones, the archaeologist portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in his new film wears a hat, digs up relics and sometimes finds himself in life-imperilling situations. That's where the similarities end, however. For one thing, the man Fiennes plays - humble amateur archaeol...