Trystan L. Bass

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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.”

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Belfast (2021)

By Trystan L. Bass on May 24, 2022

I wasn't thinking I'd review Belfast (2021) for the blog because it's set in August 1969 and thus violates our vague rule of "no movies after Trystan... Read more →

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Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

By Trystan L. Bass on May 20, 2022

Did the world need a second Downton Abbey movie? Did I need to see it? These are, of course, rhetorical questions because the movie was made and I... Read more →

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WCW: Tuppence Middleton

By Trystan L. Bass on May 18, 2022

I'm not sure if I like Tuppence Middleton as an actor. She's been in a bunch of things, and she plays a minor character in the new Downton Abbey... Read more →

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MCM: Fredric March

By Trystan L. Bass on May 9, 2022

Between his name and his suave good looks, I thought Fredric March might be some European transplant to Hollywood. Nope, he was born in Wisconsin and... Read more →

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White Lies (2013)

By Trystan L. Bass on May 3, 2022

Were you looking for a film about the conflict between New Zealand's native Māori people and white colonialists in the 1920s through a deeply female... Read more →

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Top Five Frock Flicks for the English Countryside

By Trystan L. Bass on April 29, 2022

I'm a lifelong anglophile and I don't know if that's because of my fondness for British frock flicks or I love British frock flicks because I'm an... Read more →

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MCM: William Shakespeare

By Trystan L. Bass on April 25, 2022

I'm a little surprised that William Shakespeare hasn't been a big subject for biopics. Sure, his works have been filmed endlessly since the dawn of... Read more →

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My Top Five Biopic Frock Flicks

By Trystan L. Bass on April 22, 2022

So many frock flicks are biographies, of course, and we can debate endlessly how accurate they are in telling the life stories of their subjects. I... Read more →

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WCW: Annette Bening

By Trystan L. Bass on April 20, 2022

I don't know what role or movie really stands out to me as Annette Bening's best or why I wanted to do a WCW on her. But I like watching her onscreen... Read more →

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Anne Boleyn (2021)

By Trystan L. Bass on April 19, 2022

Everyone has fixated on one thing about this three-part miniseries Anne Boleyn (2021) -- that Jodie Turner-Smith in the title role is Black and the... Read more →