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How The Dig's Archie Barnes became Britain's next child star The young actor reveals the secrets of his brilliant performance in The Dig – magic tricks, cycling scrapes, family grief and ill-timed naps 8 February 2021 • 6:00am 14-year-old Archie Barnes as Robert Pretty in Netflix's hit film about the Sutton Hoo treasure Credit: Netflix As anyone who has watched E.T. or The Sixth Sense will attest, one of the things that leaves a lasting impression is the question of how America finds such brilliant child actors. Yet those who have enjoyed Netflix’s marvellous film about the 1939 Sutton ...

SHARE When it comes to archaeology, Hollywood has always felt the need to inject plenty of excitement into what is, in real life, a long, laborious job. That’s why in Mummy, we don’t just see Rick and his pals scratching about in the soil in the hopes of coming across a papyrus scroll or two, but rather we’re treated to pestilence, plagues and the rising up of an undead army hellbent on revenge. But while Netflix’s The Dig doesn’t disturb anything untoward beneath the English countryside, the slow burn of the priceless sixth-century treasures to be found while the threat of World ...

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This article is more than 1 month old How could old Etonian Ferdinand Mount possibly understand the character of the northern city? He used his imagination Sheffield takes centre-stage in Ferdinand Mount’s memoir of his Aunt Munca. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Sheffield takes centre-stage in Ferdinand Mount’s memoir of his Aunt Munca. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Sun 7 Feb 2021 03.00 EST It comes over you only rarely in life: the swoony feeling that a book might almost have been written for you. Two weeks after I finished it, I can’t stop thinking about ...

For those of you who like movies of this ilk, usually British, period pieces usually set in the first half of the 20th century (or before), that deal with history (think archaeology), then “The Dig” is for you. Throw in some cracker jack actors like Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James, stream it on Netflix and wait for the buzz. In 1939, Mrs. Edith Pretty (Mulligan) decided to hire an archaeologist to investigate, that is, dig into what looked to be burial mounds located on her Suffolk estate. She hired a man who came highly recommended, a self-taught archaeologist/excavato...