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“Nomadland”
It’s a singular experience, watching Chloé Zhao’s film “Nomadland” a drama about a woman rerouting her life in far-flung directions, in the wake of the 2008 economic meltdown from the vantage point of our own crises today. It’s a fine and bittersweet beauty in any case. Frances McDormand plays a woman living off the grid, as one of the American West’s nomadic travelers, following the jobs, making friends where she can, getting a little closer to herself. Zhao’s previous film, “The Rider,” is amazing; by contrast, “Nomadland” has its m
What's it rated? PG-13 When? 2021 Where's it showing? Netflix Simon Stone (The Daughter) directs this historical biographical drama about an important 1939 archaeological excavation.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Dig’
Perfect cast uncovers haunting passage to the past, writes Devine.
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Director Simon Stone’s “The Dig” floats in and around Sutton Hoo in 1939, a patch of farmland near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, surrounded by ancient woods, and scattered with people, each with their plots of earth and who spend their days tending to them.
The largest piece of land holds the rambling estate of Mrs. Edith Pretty, (Carey Mulligan “The Great Gatsby”) the widow of a British Army officer, and possessor of a ring of strange earthen mounds.
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Length: 112 minutes
Movies with Mary: I dig The Dig
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I wanted to review the new Tom Hanks movie on-demand, but it irritated me that I had to pay $19.99 more for the opportunity. I pay extra for streaming services and then to be charged even more to see a movie is a travesty, but as long as we pay, they will charge. That’s why most of the movies I review are on Netflix instead of Amazon Prime or on-demand.
Ralph Fiennes assumed his character in The Dig was a piece of fiction when he first read the script.
The new Netflix film tells the extraordinary story of Sutton Hoo; the excavation - as the Second World War loomed - of a medieval grave in Suffolk, where a 27m-long ship was buried.
Not only that, but a chamber full of dazzling riches was found at the centre of the boat, the most iconic being the Sutton Hoo helmet.
Ipswich-born Fiennes knew about the famous discovery but it was only after he quickly did some research, as we all do, on Wikipedia that he realised the extent to which The Dig was based on a true story - and that Basil Brown actually existed.