When you think of the title character of Shakespeare’s play Othello, it seems obvious...
race issues in history
Portraying historical people on film and in TV is always open for criticism, even more so...
Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved creates evocative, often terrifying metaphors to explore the...
Roger Ebert called Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991) “angry and romantic,” which sold me...
Taboo (2017) is a TV drama series developed by and starring (my boyfriend) Tom Hardy,...
With an overload of historical costume movies and TV series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, broadcast...
We’ve previously posted about Timeless, the new time-travel, vast-government-conspiracy TV show from NBC —...
In the frock flicks pantheon, few lights shine brighter than the films of Merchant...
Sorry, kids, I got distracted from my episode by episode review of the new,...
I’ve been reviewing each episode of the new, rebooted Roots — each episode covers...