Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2026

GenAI can be scary good

Olivia Holt in a silvery white Victorian ballgown, by Copilot, generated by someone for me

Monday, May 27, 2024

Friday, December 08, 2023

Christmas Mice bonus

And looking that up, I discovered that the Dickensian mice in The Muppet Christmas Carol went on to star in a Christmas special with Robert Downey Jr.

Wednesday, November 08, 2023

I'm a tad jealous.

Between the fanciest 19th Century outfits in The Gilded Age and getting to be a Ghostbuster in the new movie, Carrie Coon is living my best life.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Bustle or bust

Aww, they cancelled the bizarre Walker: Texas Ranger reboot prequel Independence with Katherine McNamara in fairly practical 19th century dresses.

Friday, April 14, 2023

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Dropping a trailer for a serious Dracula spinoff the day before your studio releases a funny Dracula spinoff? Okay.

Sunday, January 08, 2023

Saturday, November 12, 2022

The English

BBC and Amazon together bring us a Western, with Emily Blunt. Pink frilly dress in episode one, bustle coat over riding pants in episode two.

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Dracula Day

Dracula was published 125 years ago today, not alone in making vampires sexy and Victorian style very Goth but certainly a major factor.

And the 1992 version has one of the wardrobes I've always wanted

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Around The World In 80 Days

The new Around The World In 80 Days with David Tennant is mostly fun, and Leonie Benesch as Abigail is adorbs.

Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Poor Things

Emma Stone's next film is to be Poor Things, an adaptation of Alasdair Gray's post-Frankenstein novel which may or may not be about a mad scientist more successfully creating a woman, from Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Favourite.