Top 5 Actors Who Need to Do More Frock Flicks
When I'm looking to write a Man Candy Monday or Woman Crush Wednesday, I usually identify people who've been in a whole bunch of historical costume... Read more →
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Costume Designer Piero Tosi: The Frock Flicks Guide
Admittedly, I haven't seen many of the films that Piero Tosi designed costumes for. They're all Italian, since he famously dislikes travel and has... Read more →
TBT: A League of Their Own (1992)
Am I the last American female who had not seen A League of Their Own (1992)? Somehow I missed it when it was in theaters -- maybe I thought... Read more →
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018)
We all loved the original series of The Bletchley Circle (2012-2014) about four women who met cracking German codes during World War II and then... Read more →
Top 5 Eyeglasses in Frock Flicks
Eyeglasses are one of those accessories with a very particular history, so when they're used in historical costume movies and TV shows on a... Read more →
TBT: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
Anne Brontë's novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, published in 1848, was underrated at the time, but has been realized since as an early feminist... Read more →
TBT: Mapp & Lucia (1985) – 1930s Comedy of Manners
Perhaps I should say, Mapp & Lucia the first, because this is the 1985 adaption of the E. F. Benson novels produced for British TV. Both this and... Read more →
Costume Designer Adrian: The Frock Flicks Guide
Adrian Adolph Greenburg is the only costume designer of historical movies that we have, as of yet, immortalized in poetry. Maybe it's because Adrian... Read more →
Sorry Emily, the Newest Wuthering Heights Sucks
Today would have been Emily Brontë 200th birthday. The middle of the surviving Brontë sisters, she's known for her one great novel Wuthering... Read more →
MCM: Hugh Bonneville
He may not be an obvious dreamboat, but Hugh Bonneville is one of those character actors who we can't help but love whenever he shows up in a... Read more →
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