True confession time: I have an increasingly hard time watching frock flicks with subtitles....
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When Dame Maggie Smith passed away last week, I was reviewing some of her...
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont was a French soldier and spy in the 1750s-60s, receiving...
Chinatown (1974) came up in a recent conversation with a friend, and I realized...
I’ve been on a bit of a 12th-century kick lately, mainly because it’s one...
I don’t think I heard about Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer when it was...
Mothering Sunday (2021) is a small, tense film that’s not immediately clear in its...
I was flying home from a long stay in Paris, and saw Les Misérables...
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023) is a pleasant little film starring Simon...
I’ve put off watching White Mischief (1987) for several years despite being interested, because I...
