I should catch up on things that happened forever ago, but which I failed to post about. So here's something delightfully silly for you ...

Apparently Barbara Cartland is well-known and a big deal as romance novelists go (my Mother knows everything, I do not). Not only was she re...

I like to watch television while I do homework, and I've been doing a lot of homework. So allow me to make a movie recommendation to you...

I recently got to see the new Jane Eyre movie. It was quite pretty, but when you come down to it Jane Eyre is just not the story for me. I p...

I love these uniforms, and I love this music. I wish I knew more about men's military uniforms - if anyone knows more than I do, please ...

Fright Night is a totally adorable movie from 1985. Charley Brewster loves horror movies, but is convinced that his neighbor is a vampire. N...

Once upon a time, I saw a trailer for Charlie Bartlett. It looked like potentially the best movie ever. I got excited. I waited for the rele...

I love ridiculous things. I love vampires. I have a particular soft spot for ridiculous things involving vampires. Brace yourself for this o...

When I first saw this, I thought it was delightful. And then I was struck by confusion. Wasn't Batman a thing rather later than the 1920...

I just discovered something very neat, and simultaneously sad. There is a point in the movie Moulin Rouge where the main character is given ...

As you may or may not know, the Hans Christian Anderson story of the little mermaid has very little to do with the happy Disnified version. ...

If I say something about Scaramouche to someone, I am usually met with a, "What? Like the Queen song?" (referring to the "Sca...

This is not French, but it is the epitome of beautiful haunting steampunky loveliness. Seriously, invest the 20 minutes in watching it. The ...

"Le voyage dans la lune" is generally regarded at the first science fiction film. It was made in 1902 by a french filmmaker, Georg...

The Steampunk Ball was lovely, and all sorts of wonderful people came. I ought to be more on top of things and take pictures of wonderful pe...