As a connoisseur of Dracula on screen and having read Bram Stoker’s novel many times, it...
Nineteenth Century
Historical costume movies & TV set in the Regency and Victorian eras.
Unless you’re living under a rock, you know there’s yet another Emma coming —...
French film/stage director, actor, and writer Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) was a huge proponent of...
I got three-fourths of the way through Désirée (1954) before I realized it was based...
The woman we know as Empress Josephine of France was born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher...
The reviews of Harriet (2019) have been mixed, with major publications calling the film...
There are lots of movies that aim for a historical aesthetic when it comes...
I’ve had a thing for the real-life Virginia Oldoini, The Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899)...
You love it or you hate it, and I love the hell out of...
In the last of my historical Halloween reviews, I’m looking at another version of...
