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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 ...

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...

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 LITTLE THINGS: 3 STARS "The Little Things," a Los Angeles-set crime drama now available in select theatres and on PVOD, features a trio of Oscar winners in a dark story that shows the soft underbelly of the glamour capitol. Set in 1990, pre-DNA testing, this is a story of old-fashioned police work. Wits, stakeouts, payphones, and bleary eyes are their tools; obsession and black coffee fuel them. Oscar winner number one Denzel Washington is Joe Deacon, a deputy sheriff in small town California, whose job as a big city detective is long in the rearview mirror. When he joins strait-laced...

Why Edith From The Dig Looks So Familiar Why Edith From The Dig Looks So Familiar Netflix By Mike Bedard/Jan. 27, 2021 7:32 pm EDT Netflix is laying its claim as a moviemaking machine that's not to be trifled with. The streaming service decided that 2021 would be the biggest year for movies on its platform, and debuted its plan to release a new original movie every single week of the year. The massive undertaking will allow people who want to watch movies in the comfort of their homes to have plenty to choose from whether they're in the mood for comedies, horror movies, or ...