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Daniel Deronda (2002)
  • Top 5 Friday

Top Five Athletic Moments in Historical Costume Movies

Trystan L. Bass August 19, 2016 16 3222
The 2016 Summer Olympics close this weekend, and while sports and historical costume don’t...
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Vatel (2000)
  • Seventeenth Century

Food, Fantasy, and Vatel

Trystan L. Bass August 18, 2016 15 5488
Many lavishly produced historical costume movies are about larger-than-life figures, whether real or fictional,...
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2016 Roots
  • Eighteenth Century
  • Nineteenth Century

Roots (2016): Part 2

Kendra August 17, 2016 15 9604
Previously I reviewed part 1 in the reboot of Roots (2016). Let’s move on to part 2...
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Ikea Let's Relax video
  • Eighteenth Century

I Can’t Relax About That Ikea Video

Trystan L. Bass August 16, 2016 34 2695
And not just because of the costumes. I have so many unanswered questions! So...
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
  • Man Candy Monday
  • Nineteenth Century

MCM: Napoleon

Trystan L. Bass August 15, 2016 28 2947
Happy birthday to the man who would have ruled the world but for Waterloo!...
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
  • Nineteenth Century

Best Bustles in The Age of Innocence

Trystan L. Bass August 12, 2016 23 11181
Easily one of the top 10 — top 5? — ever historical costume movies for...
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Anna and the King (1999)
  • Nineteenth Century

Anna and the King x2, No Singing

Trystan L. Bass August 11, 2016 23 5488
As much as I love musicals (and I really do, especially old-school pre-1970s classics),...
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The Devil's Violinist (2013)
  • Nineteenth Century

Just How Bad Is The Devil’s Violinist?

Sarah Lorraine August 10, 2016 16 5760
The Devil’s Violinist (2013) had a lot of things going for it: Bernard Rose...
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  • 18th-Century Quest
  • Eighteenth Century

18th-Century Quest: The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant

Kendra August 9, 2016 11 6400
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005) stars Romola Garai in an adapted-from-real-life story of...
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Wonder Woman (2017)
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Trailers & Previews

Why Are We Covering Wonder Woman?

Kendra August 8, 2016 21 2228
Wonder Woman is a big superhero movie/comic book adaptation that’s coming in 2017, so why...
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