Aristocrats (1999) is a BBC miniseries adaptation of the non-fiction biography of the four...
Throwback Thursday
Flashing back to favorite historical costume movies from a decade ago or longer.
I’d wanted to watch Prince of Foxes (1949) based on a couple costume pix...
Toast (2010), based on Nigel Slater’s memoir, presents a nostalgic yet fragmented narrative of...
After Maggie Smith’s death (sniff), I went about rewatching some of my favorite of...
Something about a film dealing with an intellectual woman being undercut by religious and...
Back when it originally aired, we sang the praises of Wolf Hall (2015). Specifically,...
How can you not love Blackadder II (1986)? All editions of Rowan Atkinson’s comedic...
Continuing on my quest to give full reviews to the better and/or most widely...
I recently reread historian Natalie Zemon Davis’s book, The Return of Martin Guerre, which if...
I admit, I never knew much if anything about heiress Doris Duke (1912-93) until...
