Last week’s post garnered a lot of responses from readers about the historical shows they’re still salty about being cancelled before their time, so I figured I’d go ahead and ...

Color me surprised when I realized Magenta from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (one of my very favorite movies ever) showed up in several frock flicks I was reviewing! That sent me to IMDB where I ...

This film is set between between 1795 to 1799, according to costume designer Grace Snell, and the gowns really nail that silhouette. Edgar & Elinor. Photo by Szilveszter Mako / Vogue. Margaret. Photo ...

In my review earlier this week, I mentioned that the show was allegedly cancelled due to the fact that ITV received hundreds of complaints from viewers about its disturbing ...

Not having much ELSE exciting to watch, I did indeed continue watching the new Outlander spin-off/prequel, Blood of My Blood (2025), which just had its season finale. I did a deep-dive review of ...

I’m not sure why I have such warm and fuzzy feelings about British actor Alfred Molina, but I do! He started out on stage and then went on to add TV and film, and MANY of those productions have been ...

A few years ago, Trystan wrote her top 5 biopics list, and she recently suggested I do the same since I loooooove them! The problem with that is the biopics I love either 1) help me understand someone ...

Not to be confused with the 1980 film of the same name about the same subject. You can tell the two apart because this one stars Glenn Close. It deals with the life of Joseph Merrick (renamed John in ...

We have MCM’s on Sense and Sensibility ‘s men, but wait, we haven’t done the ladies! With the new version coming out Very Soon, I thought it was time to compare the various iterations of Elinor ...

This one doesn’t look very frocky, but the story is based news publisher William Randolph Hearst & covers the Spanish-American War in the 1890s & past the 1929 stock market crash.

You asked for it, so here’s an occasional open thread to bitch about anything tangentially related to history, costume, movies, or TV shows! Or whatever else is on your mind right now. Note that URLs ...