Moira Buffini

The Dig (12A): Archaeology With No Fedora Necessary.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Dig” (2021). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Plot summary: It’s 1939, and as World War 2 approaches, widower Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) hires rough and ready excavator Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to dig into one of the ancient earth mounds on her property at the site that will … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Viceroy's House (2017)

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The 80:20 Rule. India, 1947. Churchill’s government has sent Lord Grantham – –  sorry — Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville, “The Monuments Men“) as the new Viceroy. His mission is to make sure he is the last ever Viceroy, for India is to be returned to independence. But racial tensions between the Hindu and … Read more