Eleanor Reviews

Director:  Simon Stone Cast:  Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn Where can I watch?:   The Dig  is streaming on Netflix Rating:  4/5 Review:  Standing before the Sutton Hoo helmet in the British Museum is a strangely spiritual experience. Believed to have been buried around 625 AD, the helmet represents a level of craftsmanship and sophistication that many believed the Anglo-Saxons to be incapable of; it's also thought to have once sat upon the head of a king. Although Simon Stone's film The Dig doesn't chart the discovery of the helmet, it does dramatise the moment a complete Anglo-Saxon ship was discovered beneath a burial mound on the eve of the Second World War. When Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) hires unorthodox excavator Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to uncover the secrets buried within her late husband's land, neither could have anticipated what they would unearth. Through each trip to the dig site, Edith and Basil's platonic relationship b

Director:  Ric Roman Waugh Cast:  Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd Where can I watch?:   Greenland  is streaming on  Prime Video Rating:  3.5/5 Review: Watching the news at the moment, it can often feel that we're living through our very own disaster movie, so sitting down to watch an 'end of the world' film may feel a little... Unnecessary? Fear not, readers, for I can assure you that watching doom unfurl via the medium of film is far more entertaining than living through it... Cue Greenland, a cataclysmic, comet-related outing that successfully thrills and engages without adding anything to the genre. You know the story already - an estranged husband (Gerard Butler, Scottish in some scenes, not in others) and wife (Morena Baccarin) must put their martial issues aside to ensure they, and their diabetic son (Roger Dale Floyd), survive the apocalypse, rekindling their relationship along the way. Despite this wholly unoriginal premise and a healthy collection

Director:  Carlos López Estrada Cast:  Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar Where can I watch?:   Blindspotting is streaming on Prime Video Rating:  5/5 Review:  It's the duty of art to tackle difficult, uncomfortable subjects. In the case of director Carlos López Estrada's excellent Blindspotting , numerous timely subjects - from racism, to gentrification, police brutality and beyond - are dissected in a strikingly lyrical, often humorous, way. With just three days left until his probation is over, Collin (an outstanding Daveed Diggs) is desperate to stay out of trouble, but it seems life has other plans - his friendship with the volatile Miles (Rafael Casal) and the witnessing of a fleeing black man being shot by a white officer put him in a precarious position, as does the lingering presence of the crime that placed him in prison in the first place. From the premise I've described, you might expect a truly bleak, tragic watching experience, but you'd be mistak