HISTORY & FILM

Subjects:

16th CenturyHistorical Novels ReviewNauticalTudor

WRITTEN BY JENNY BARDEN ‘Throw away the history books and behold the majesty.’ This was BBC Movies’ review of Shekhar Kapur’s epic: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).¹ The film was, by Kapur’s own admission: ‘…based on mythology. It is the... Read More

Subjects:

19th CenturyGreat DepressionHistorical Novels Review

WRITTEN BY MICHELLE MCGILL-VARGAS I love horror movies, especially the classic Hammer or Universal horror films featuring the likes of Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi. My Saturday evenings are usually spent watching campy flicks like Dracula’s Daughter or Curse of... Read More

WRITTEN BY BETHANY LATHAM If there are multiple films set in 1750s Jutland, I’m woefully uninformed about them, so when I came across The Promised Land (titled Bastarden, “the bastard,” in Danish), its unique historical location was a draw. Based... Read More

WRITTEN BY BETHANY LATHAM “There’s little humanity, and what there is is veiled in transgression, but this is the bold, barnstorming filmmaking of the Lynchs, the Cronenbergs, the Kubricks. Robert Eggers is weird. And he knows it. In fact, he... Read More

WRITTEN BY K.M. SANDRICK The Democratic National Convention set in Chicago August 19-22 this year could not help but recall the turmoil in the city on August 26-29, 1968. A sitting president drops his bid for a second term. In... Read More