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2025 Year in Review: Movies

Happy still-pretty-new year! As promised, here I am with the movies edition of my 2025 year in review (and I'm only posting it a few days later than I said I would. Wonders never cease). I didn't watch many new…

By Lizzie Hexam January 6, 2026Period Dramas, Vintage-ness25 Comments

Vintage-ness

Would You Rather: Classic Movie Edition

Our moral for today is that it pays to waste time snooping around in other people's blog archives, because I found an immensely fun-looking tag from a classic movie blog party which Cordy at Any Merry Little Thought hosted...um, just…

By Lizzie Hexam September 1, 2025Vintage-ness23 Comments

picture of fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof

Period Dramas

Fiddler on the Roof and What Makes a Good Movie Musical

In my humble opinion, it's very hard to make a good movie musical. Musicals and movies are two wonderful ways of telling stories, but I would consider them to be pretty nearly diametrically opposed means of storytelling. Musicals are inherently…

By Lizzie Hexam February 13, 2025Period Dramas28 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

We Love Musicals Week Tag

We Love Musicals Week is starting today over at Hamlette's Soliloquy! I'm hoping to get a post up for that later this week, but in the meantime I decided to fill out this fun-looking We Love Musicals Week tag. 1. …

By Lizzie Hexam February 10, 2025Miscellaneous, Period Dramas10 Comments

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10 Books and 10 Movies Perfect for Summer

Audio version of "10 Books and 10 Movies Perfect for Summer" is available here. This is a bit late in coming, perhaps, seeing how the summer is half over...but better late than never, right? Many of these stories are on…

By Lizzie Hexam July 20, 2024Bookishness, Period Dramas, Vintage-ness8 Comments