The Duchess Deep Dive: She’s Had a Baby!
You all — especially our Patreon supporters, whose requests we take very seriously! — have been asking for an in-depth review of The... Read more →
MCM: Omar Sharif
During Snark Week, a reader pointed out a resemblance between young Omar Sharif and Orlando Bloom, and I've been thinking about that ever since.... Read more →
Podcast: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
We catch up on what we're watching lately during these crazy pandemic lockdown times, and then we launch into a review of this 2019 French film --... Read more →
Oh the Many WWII Movies & TV Shows I’ve Watched!
We've all had our own personal quirky reactions to the shelter in place caused by COVID-19. Mine, at least in terms of media, was to binge a million... Read more →
WCW: Joan Plowright
Dame Joan Plowright -- aka Baroness Olivier, aka third wife of Laurence Olivier -- had a long and successful career on the British stage before... Read more →
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Black-&-White Frock Flicks?
You may have watched everything on Netflix and Amazon, you know all the latest BBC imports and PBS shows, you've seen all the frock flicks in... Read more →
MCM: Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly wasn't in a lot of historical films, but I think we should appreciate the ones he was in. Du Barry Was a Lady (1939) Hey, girl,... 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 →
Belgravia: Julian Fellowes Goes 1840s
Belgravia (2020) is a new, six-episode series on the Epix channel from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, based on a novel Fellowes wrote... Read more →
WCW: María Valverde
I've recently developed a crush on Spanish actress María Valverde. She really caught my eye in Exodus, and then I realized I'd enjoyed her when I... Read more →
