Catherine the Great – Recap Episode 1
I think it's fair to say that many of us have been waiting for the HBO/Sky miniseries Catherine the Great (2019), starring Helen Mirren as the... Read more →
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The Historically Accurate Mr. Darcy
October 3rd is apparently National Boyfriend Day, and for many lovers of historical flicks, Mr. Darcy represents a kind of collective... Read more →
MCM: Tim McInnery
Tim McInnerny's birthday just recently passed (September 18th), so consider today's Man Candy Monday a late birthday tribute! We take a look at some... Read more →
WCW: Annette Crosbie
Scottish actress Annette Crosbie is one of those actors who is in everything, and when you see her face, you're immediately like "Oh! I like her!"... Read more →
MCM: Marty Feldman
I love Marty Feldman. And while he didn't have a whole lot of historical film roles, you can't say he wasn't memorable in the ones that he did do.... Read more →
Top Five Friday: Top Five Dresses I Would Wear the Shit Out Of
Because there are frock flicks you're dying to raid the wardrobes of... Anne Boleyn's Yellow Dress - Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) Yeah,... Read more →
WCW: Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville's career spans the last 40 years, but it's really only in the last 20 years that she's become a fixture in historical costume films.... Read more →
All Is True (2019)
There's been a handful of Shakespeare biopics in recent years, and not many of them have looked inspiring enough for me to want to invest time and... Read more →
Top Five Friday: All the Bitches, Part 3
It's been a while since our last two rundowns of some of our favorite bitches in historical costume flicks, so I thought we should revisit some more... Read more →
Elizabeth (1998): 20 Years on and a Few More Thoughts
One of the most famous biopics of the last two decades, Elizabeth (1998) sprang fully formed into the nascent online historical costuming community... Read more →
