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

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 Stone's direction, Moira Buffini's screenplay and Mike Eley's cinematography are just as cherishable. It's 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 Favourite (2018), are being redrafted. On TV, hits such as Bridgerton and The Great rely heavily ...

The Dig: Sutton Hoo treasure explored – where is the helmet now?   The Dig explores the discovery at Sutton Hoo, but what exactly was found and where is the helmet now? Let’s look beyond the Netflix movie. Netflix continues to deliver on its promise of offering subscribers a new movie every single week and audiences are currently checking out The Dig. Arriving on Friday, January 29th 2021, the drama film is directed by Simon Stone ( The Daughter) and is based on John Preston’s 2007 novel of the same name. This, in turn, explored the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo. Carey Mu...

Published January 29, 2021, 1:33 PM This week sees the return of an Action Drama Limited Series that’s based on an excellent film directed by Bong Joon-Ho, plus a masterful film adaptation of an incendiary stage play that touches on Black Life Matters circa 1964. Then there’s a quiet film about recent Archaeology, and a YA Fantasy series that’s shooting up the charts. Enjoy! Snowpiercer Season 2 (Netflix) – When this series’ first season ended last year, Snowpiercer had been breached by a new unknown machine, Big Alice, and we were left with the appearance of Mel’s daughter, worki...

The Little Things Photo: Nicole Goode Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, January 29, and Saturday, January 30. All times are Eastern. Advertisement The Little Things (HBO Max, Friday, 3:01 a.m.): “ The Little Things is pure boilerplate. There’s scarcely a moment in the movie that doesn’t recall a dozen predecessors, in form or content or both. That the supporting cast of second-string officers features two alums of The Wire provides a sense of the procedural vibe writer-director John Lee Hancock is slickly but imprecisely approximating. His script is a b...