Tag Archives: Period Piece

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Review

LONG LIVE DOWNTON ABBEY!   In 2022, audiences were once again “cordially invited” into the world of the Crawley family and their loyal staff with Downton Abbey: A New Era. Directed by Simon Curtis, the film—set in 1928—followed the Crawleys to the south of France as they unraveled the mystery behind the Dowager Countess’s unexpected inheritance of a villa. Lavish

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The King’s Daughter (2022) Review

A FORGETFUL (AND UTTERLY DATED) FANTASY MESS   Delaying a movie’s theatrical release can be a mixed bag of sorts. The hype and anticipation that has building for the feature’s release can be either continue to fuel the necessary excitement for the film’s inevitable future release or you cause a large determinant towards its premiere reveal, especially if the feature

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Mary Queen of Scots (2018) Review

ANOTHER SIDE, ANOTHER STORY   Within many of the movie genres of cinematic tales, the subgenre of the commonly named “period pieces” have always been produced throughout the years of filmmaking; spinning different stories that place in “another time” and “another place” for the modern world. These particular feature films, which span multiple genres (i.e adventure, comedy, horror, thriller, fantasy,

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