For October’s Halloween season, I like to indulge my gothic side with some historical...
Seventeenth Century
Historical costume movies & TV set in the French Bourbon era, the English Civil War / Restoration, and such.
There’s been a handful of Shakespeare biopics in recent years, and not many of...
This is a movie I wanted to like. Such a clever concept — who...
I admit it, I am totally a (historical) royals geek. Of course, I understand...
While the movie of Forever Amber (1947) doesn’t have the reported 70 references to sexual...
I admit it, I am totally a (historical) royals geek. Of course, I understand...
As we mentioned in our podcast about The Favourite (2018), costume designer Sandy Powell...
We were excited to see this movie soon after its (limited) U.S. release! Director...
Artemisia was one of those films I was half-aware of when it first came...
The TV adaption of Jessie Burton’s novel The Miniaturist (2017) set in 1686 Amsterdam was...
