Costume Designer Dinah Collin: The Frock Flicks Guide
Probably best known as the costume designer for everyone's favorite Pride and Prejudice (the 1995 one, don't fight me!), Dinah Collin has a few other... Read more →
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MCM: Nicholas Hoult
He's young, he's pretty, and as an actor, he has potential! Nicholas Hoult has been in a crop of frock flicks in the past couple years and has a TV... Read more →
5 Frock Flicks Hopefully Coming in 2020
We know about some historical movies and TV shows premiering this year -- Sandition is already on PBS (and ripe for snark!), the long-awaited Miss... Read more →
TBT: M*A*S*H
You may not think of the TV series MAS*H (1972–1983) as a frock flick. But the half-hour sitcom was set during the Korean War, from 1950-53, and... Read more →
Dracula (2020) Doesn’t Entirely Suck
As a connoisseur of Dracula on screen and having read Bram Stoker’s novel many times, it was my gothic duty to watch the new BBC-Netflix... Read more →
TBT: A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
New readers should be made aware that, despite my lifelong study of Victorian literature, I rather dislike the works of Charles Dickens. So it's no... Read more →
Top Five Things Poldark Has Given Us
In honor of the series ending this summer in the U.K. and last month in the U.S., here I'm trying to say something nice about it. Oh Poldark... Read more →
A Touch of the ’20s in The Chaperone (2019)
Elizabeth McGovern stretches out of her typecasting as Cora, Countess of Grantham, and returns to somewhat more complicated roles as the central... Read more →
Patreon Post Unlocked: Lillie (1978)
Shout-out to my homies who love the ’70s British costume dramas! I hadn’t watched Lillie (1978) the first time around, but dayum, I sure did... Read more →
MCM: Laurence Olivier
Often considered the greatest actor of his generation, renown for his Shakespearean work in theater and film, Laurence Olivier was quite a dashing... Read more →
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