A self-described ElderGoth, Trystan has been haunting the internet since the early 1990s. Always passionate about costume, from everyday office wear to outrageous twisted historical creations, she has maintained some of the earliest online costuming-focused resources on the web. Her costuming adventures are chronicled on her website, TrystanCraft. She also ran a popular fashion blog, This Is CorpGoth, dedicated to her “office drag.”
A quintessential character actor, Ruby Bentall has a recognizable and very youthful looking face. That may lead her to be typecast as younger girls,... Read more →
In spite of the doo-wop style music, I didn't peg Little Shop of Horrors (1986) as a period piece until a recent viewing. But yep, it doesn't just... Read more →
The Bridgerton stories takes a jump back in time (mostly) and instead of showing another venture into the Regency marriage market, we get a series... Read more →
Nothing says "medieval cliches" like a 1950s take on Arthurian legend, and the second of this medieval-themed trilogy starring Robert Taylor and... Read more →
PBS Masterpiece and ITV have done a new adaption of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding. This four-part series, Tom Jones (2023),... Read more →
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I've often stated my dislike of the writings of Charles Dickens, and at Frock Flicks we've long noted that the period when his works are mostly set,... Read more →
Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptions kind of petered out after Hamlet in 1996, but it's hard to top a four-hour version of one of the Bard's most... Read more →
I've mentioned this one a few times as having a highly romanticized plot and very pretty, generically historical costumes. Mary Queen of Scots (1971)... Read more →
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