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.”
Would you like some gothic horror served with a side of gorgeous 18th-century costumes and bad hair? Then Brotherhood of the Wolf aka Le Pacte des... Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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