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Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The Sundance Film Festival is now underway, and even with a smaller program and mostly virtual events, it has still sent bolts of excitement through the air. New movies! Fresh filmmakers! As it should be. Advertisement Festival organizers have quite shrewdly leaned into all the ways this year can be not just unusual but special, crafting a unique online experience from waiting rooms to screenings, Q&As and even virtual hangout sessions. While screenings are ticketed, events and panels — ...

The Dig: Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty and Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown 28 January, 2021 01:00 Possessor: Andrea Riseborough as Tanya Vos THE DIG (Cert 12, 111 mins, streaming from January 29 exclusively on Netflix, Drama/Romance/War) Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Johnny Flynn, Lily James, Ben Chaplin, Monica Dolan, Ken Stott. TERMINALLY-ill widow Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) is convinced that treasures lie beneath the surface of the grassy burial mounds on her estate in Suffolk. With the Second World War beckoning, she hires pipe-smoking archaeologist Ba...

Edith feels that the land on her estate may be home to a Viking burial ground; Basil thinks there’s something even older lurking under there. As various posh accents bump up against working-class ones, they eventually do discover quite a trove of corroded, centuries-old flotsam and jetsam, which attracts the attention of no less then the British museum. It will eventually be known as the Sutton Hoo Treasure, and were this not lifted from the real-life discovery of a major historical find, you’d have hoped that this dig might also unleash a few disturbed spirits, ready to turn Edith’s es...

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan discuss Netflix film The Dig, research behind preparing roles for period drama The Dig's cast dissects the making of the historical drama and how director #SimonStone kept the actors “very unrehearsed, very free, very spontaneous.” Still from The Dig. Image from Twitter Godalming, England — Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon Stone, the director of the new Netflix drama, The Dig, peered at a monitor, then nodded. “Let’s go,” ...