5+ hour, 22+ min ago  (365+ words) There are no spoilers in history They really serve up the spectacle! I bet this looks amazing on the big screen, because it's still pretty wild on TV. After various battles and trials, the good guys prevail, King Richard returns,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (236+ words) Frock Flicks We discussed The Affair of the Necklace (2001) on one of our podcasts (hey, remember when we used to be a podcast? Pepperidge Farm remembers!), and Kendra did a huge post strictly about the hat porn in the film,…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (580+ words) There are no spoilers in history We start with Claire, our time traveler from the 1940s, dressed super conventionally with a cap (which is hilarious because she never dresses conventionally) in order to seem unthreatening: But later she strips down to…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (338+ words) There are no spoilers in history 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…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (162+ words) There are no spoilers in history In today's installment of this blog, we find out if The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) is worth the effort of watching, considering that it isn't streaming anywhere currently, other than two versions…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (147+ words) There are no spoilers in history Blitzing through season one of'Garrow's Law'(2009-11), I had a number of revelatory thoughts about it. Mainly, it fits squarely into the Venn diagram of my interests: Procedurals (either police or law, or both) and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (610+ words) There are no spoilers in history In particular, what's kept me watching is the surprisingly historically accurate costumes designed by John Dunn (Casino, The Notorious Bettie Page, the first episode of Mad Men, Dickinson, Julia). The first season is set…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (166+ words) There are no spoilers in history The Rise and Fall of Versailles(2009) is a good documentary with good costumes, a combination that is fairly rare. All in all, this was a good little documentary about the kings and queens that…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (210+ words) There are no spoilers in history The costumes were designed by Sue Born-Thompson, Nicola Sandford, and Sue Formston, none of whom have designed any titles I recognize in their IMDB listings. Liz is an upper-middle-class wife and mother who studied…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (156+ words) There are no spoilers in history That's what I optimistically" believed when I covered the first episode of A Dangerous Friendship (2024-). It looked solid " maybe not super authentic, but there seemed to be an actual costuming budget and there I…...