Frock Flicks Guide20 Gabriella Pescucci: The Frock Flicks Guide By Kendra on April 11, 2017 Gabriella Pescucci is one of my favorite costume designers, specifically for her work on... Read more →
Nineteenth Century23 Best Bustles in The Age of Innocence By Trystan L. Bass on August 12, 2016 Easily one of the top 10 -- top 5? -- ever historical costume movies for the bustle era,... Read more →
18th-Century QuestEighteenth Century9 18th-Century Quest: The Night and the Moment By Kendra on July 8, 2015 I had never heard of The Night and the Moment (1994) until scrolling through Netflix... Read more →
Top 5 Friday15 Top 10 Historical Movie Wedding Dresses By Kendra on June 5, 2015 Wedding dresses. They're the big ones, the be all and end all -- or at least, they should... Read more →
Nineteenth Century15 Penny Dreadful, Gothic Horror Dream Come True By Trystan L. Bass on May 13, 2015 My goth friends have been raving (in a good way!) about this series, but I didn't have... Read more →
Fifteenth Century41 The Borgias vs. Borgia: Faith, Fear, and Fashion By Trystan L. Bass on May 6, 2015 After Showtime's The Borgias began in 2011, we podcasted the first few episodes of the... Read more →
Frock Flicks Guide9 66 Years of Best Costume Oscars By Trystan L. Bass on March 25, 2015 In March 1949, the very first Academy Award for Best Costume was ever given. Actually,... Read more →
Sixteenth CenturySnark Week21 SNARK WEEK: Reconsidering Dangerous Beauty (1998) By Kendra on January 19, 2015 Dangerous Beauty (1998) movie costumes are known as the pinnacle of shlock, but did you know that there's actually some historical basis in there?
Fifteenth CenturyPodcasts1 Podcast: The Borgias (2013) By The Frock Flicks Team on March 5, 2012 The surprisingly decent TV miniseries "The Borgias" restores our faith in costume flicks by not totally sacrificing historical aesthetics for modern ideas about sexiness.
Ancient History Agora (2009) short review By Kendra on April 13, 2009 Rachel Weisz plays Hypatia, ancient philosopher, in a story of the destruction of the... Read more →
