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It may seem unexciting to watch a movie about an archaeological dig that isn’t “Indiana Jones.” Yet, with the truly incredible names on the cast list for “The Dig” — Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, and Lily James to name a few — and a story that’s heartwarming and insightful, “The Dig” manages to turn seemingly bland subject matter into a compelling narrative. The film, which is based on a true story, follows an archaeological dig taking place in the backyard of a dying widow, led by an excavator never properly trained in archeology joined by a...

When it comes to older actresses, TV and cinema need to grow up Why are older women still treated so unfairly in the industry? 2 March 2021 • 5:00am Angelina Jolie (then 29) played the mother of 28-year-old Colin Farrell in 2004's Alexander Credit: Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros You know how women claim they become invisible after 50? It’s hard to escape the truth of it in film and television, where diversity in race, religion and sexuality are trumpeted and yet the treatment of older actresses remains a shocking blind spot. Cate Blanchett drily observed a few years ago that “actresses age...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. - Credit: PA Ahead of International Women's Day on Monday March 8, get to know some of the figures who have made an incredible impact on our great county and the wider world. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson   Very few of us will be able to achieve a ‘first’ in any given field – unlike Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who was not only the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor, but was also the first woman to be elected as a mayor in England. In addition to this, she was also the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board, and the first dean of a B...

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; he had left school at the age of 12 to assist his father who was a tenant farmer (ie a farmer who re...

The Dig on Netflix is based on the novel of the same name by John Preston.  As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of it's uncertain future‎. The film approaches archaeology with a new level of subtlety and accuracy. Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was proven right as the sumptuous ship burial of an Anglo...