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 ...

Orson Welles is probably lauded more as a director than actor, though he started out as an actor and performed in movies and TV all his life. His company, the Mercury Theatre, moved from stage to ...

We’ve already discussed my undying love for Rupert Everett, but there’s another gorgeous Rupert that has had a nearly ubiquitous presence in historical costume flicks since the early 1980s, and that ...

Frock Flicks note: Today we feature a detailed review of the costumes in Outlander by Brenna Barks, an expert on Scottish dress and 18th-century fashion (and a Frock Flicks reader!). As soon as Kendra ...

As previously discussed, the five English Mitford sisters lived fascinating lives. Until now, we’ve had to content ourselves with adaptations of Nancy Mitford’s somewhat autobiographical novels. But ...

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) is one of the best 18th century-set films, particularly from a costume design/historical accuracy perspective (although the story, acting, script, set design, and more are ...

Tessa Thompson is an absolutely magnetic actor, and I could watch her in anything. Most of the frock flicks listed here, I’ve specifically watched because of her and I do need to catch up on her ...

I’ve wanted to review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) for a while, because it’s a movie I’ve enjoyed in the past, but I’ve been stopped because it has some problematic elements that I’m not sure if ...

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For all its popularity and classic status, only a handful of movie and TV adaptions have been made of Wuthering Heights. I think part of this is due to the lack of straightforward narrative. The novel ...

First of all, I was seriously impressed at both the quality of this painting of the Beast as a child with his parents — OMG IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE IT WAS A PAINT-BY-NUMBERS KIT! But I immediately ...