The end of the year is fast approaching and it’s time to list the best historical movies movies and TV series we saw in the last twelve months. We decided not to consider only productions of 2008 but every movie and TV series we saw and commented here on the blog during this year. There [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Best of 2008 and Upcoming Projects
Posted in A, B, C, D, Favorites, Index, J, K, L, Movies, N, P, S, Series, W, tagged Best Of on December 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Special Alert: The 39 Steps
Posted in Movies, News, T on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had just finished posting our interests this Christmas season when a new one is brought to our attention. The 39 Steps is Rupert Penry-Jones (Persuasion’s Captain Wentworth) latest project. It’s an adaptation of John Buchan’s novel of the same name which follows a man pursued by german spies right before World War I. Penry-Jones [...]
This Christmas, don’t forget…
Posted in B, C, Christmas, L, News on December 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We know we are almost a bit too late to talk about Christmas period dramas but you know how it is, between work, buying gifts, planning the holidays and everything else, time flew by and we are already the 24th. After having posted about our all time favourite Christmas movies in 2007, this year we [...]
News: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Posted in Movies, News, S, tagged Sherlock Holmes on December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Remember, back in July, our announcement for a new Sherlock Holmes movie, featuring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law?
According to IMDB, release date is set for November 2009, it’s still a long wait, we know, but to wet our appetites Warner Brothers has released the first official photos.
Wouldn’t you say the actors seem to really [...]
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Posted in #, Movies, Reviews, tagged 3:10 to Yuma on December 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Originally published in Portuguese at The Magic Screen.
Times are tough for Dan Evans (Christian Bale) and his family, the drought has taken over his land and he’s in way over his head in debt, Glen Hollander (Lennie Loftin), the deed owner, with the intention of selling the land to the railroad, tries to force him [...]
Some favorite French movies and series
Posted in C, Favorites, G, L, Movies, S, Series, tagged Camille Claudel, Cyrano, Germinal, L'Histoire d'Adele H., La Reine Margot, Le Hussard, Le Retour de Martin Guerre, Le Roi Danse, Les Enfants du Siècle, Les Rois Maudits, Saint-Cyr on December 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We always try in this blog to talk about non anglophone series and movies and this was one of our main goals for this year. This time, we decide to make a little post about some favorite French period dramas.
In some cases, it was not easy to find videos and even pictures was a hard [...]
The Reader
Posted in Movies, T, Trailer, tagged The Reader on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
See also: Nottingham, Changeling, The Reader
News: Vivaldi
Posted in Movies, News, V, tagged Vivaldi on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We recently heard that James Jagger (son of the famous Mick) has landed his first role in a motion picture. He will play a friend of the famous italian composer Vivaldi in a biopic about the man who authored the Four Seasons. Curiously enough when we went to check the movie on IMDB we discovered [...]
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We are three portuguese girls with an obsession for period dramas:
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Ana T.
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If you want to know more...Most of our reviews are written between the three of us. Nothing like three crazy heads working to get things right. Some are also individual but we still employ the 3rd person to stay into our original concept.
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