WCW: Jessica Raine
Jessica Raine is a dark-haired English actress who I've come to enjoy seeing in my frock flicks! You may recall her from Call the Midwife, Wolf... Read more →
Flashback (2021)
Flashback (2021) is a recent French comedy about a modern-day lawyer who successfully defends a rapist and then through various magical means is sent... Read more →
MCM: Fredric March
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 →
Frock Flicks Free-for-All May
You asked for it, so here’s an occasional open thread to bitch about anything tangentially related to history, costume, movies, or TV shows! Or... Read more →
The King’s Man: An Edwardian Action Movie
The King's Man (2021) is an origin story for two previous modern-set movies (Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle). All of... Read more →
WCW: Rose Leslie
In some ways, British actress Rose Leslie was "our's" first, as we loved her as the spunky servant Gwen on Downton Abbey. She may have gone on to... Read more →
White Lies (2013)
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 →
MCM: Mark Strong
This week, I thought we should focus on Mark Strong, an actor known primarily for his villainous roles, but who breaks out the occasional comedy or... Read more →
Top Five Frock Flicks for the English Countryside
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 →
TBT: Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) -- a biopic about the Regency novelist and mistress of Lord Byron -- was one of the highest grossing films in Britain that... Read more →
