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BBC News Published image captionThe National Trust team with actors Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes (centre) A film about an Anglo-Saxon burial ground will provide a "wonderful opportunity" for the site to "bounce back" from Covid-19, the National Trust said. The trust, which runs Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk, hopes The Dig will lead to a post-lockdown visitor boost. The Netflix film is about the discovery in 1939 of a king's burial ship and stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes. Manager Nick Collinson said it was a "really exciting" opportunity. The Dig tells the story of how lando...

Netflix's 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 academic Charles Phillips (Ken Stott). During the dig at the burial mounds, Mrs Piggott - who was two ...

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.

Carey Mulligan Hunting for Treasure With Metal Detector in Her Backyard Celebrity The 'Promising Young Woman' actress opens up about her hobby as a treasure hunter as she talks about her fascination with historical and valuable artefacts. Jan 30, 2021 AceShowbiz - Actress Carey Mulligan has taken up a niche new hobby - hunting for buried treasure with a metal detector. The star admits her latest role as English landowner Edith Pretty in new movie " The Dig" was particularly fascinating to her as it details the discovery of the two real-life Sutton Hoo medieval cemeteries at her character'...

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...