Costume Designer Margaret Furse: The Frock Flicks Guide
She won an Oscar, an Emmy, and a BAFTA for costume design, and these wins and all her award nominations were for historical costume dramas. Yet... Read more →
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Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Gets the Queer ’50s Right
When I first reviewed The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018), only a few episodes of the new BritBox show had aired. This continuation of the... Read more →
MCM: Peter O’Toole
Rakish, charming, and everything I think of as an old-school movie star, Peter O'Toole is classic man candy. He reputedly had over 1,000 lovers,... Read more →
Get Bookish With The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
I haven't read the book of the same name that The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) was adapted from, but the film did make me... Read more →
Why Don’t You Podcast More Often?
Frock Flicks started out as a podcast way back in 2007, and I'm still not sure why we chose that format instead of a blog. I guess because the basic... Read more →
Frocking the Midterms
The Frock Flicks staff has made it no secret that we're staunch feminists, and we're no fans of the orange menace occupying the White House right... Read more →
TBT: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Romantic and sun-drenched, Kenneth Branagh's 1993 adaption of Much Ado About Nothing was filmed entirely at the hillside Villa Vignamaggio in... Read more →
MCM: Tom Hollander
Not a conventional hottie, Tom Hollander is a fine character actor who often plays bad guys and darker characters in historical costume movies and TV... Read more →
Dressed in Black: 19th Century
This Halloween season, Trystan is indulging her gothy love of black garb in frock flicks fashion by looking at some of the most fabulous black... Read more →
10 Days in a Madhouse (2015) Is Both Terrible & Excellent
It's a sad state of affairs when hugely important stories about historical women don't get adequate attention on film or TV. Such is the case of 10... Read more →
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