• April 23, 2019
• At Home, Drama

There’s a scene in this lush but strangely hollow biopic of the titular monarch that finds its heroine (Saoirse Ronan) meeting her estranged cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie),...

• April 8, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Set in the early 1700s and based (however loosely) on actual events, the film revolves around England’s batty Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), and her devoted – if devious –...

• March 5, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I have no idea if the England’s early 18th-century Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) had lesbionic tendencies. I have no idea if her right-hand bestie Lady Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,...

• December 22, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Television

There is so much history centered in and around the famous walls of the Tower of London, the imposing fortress that sits in the River Thames in the heart...

• September 29, 2013
• At Home, Drama

The Queen covers that fateful week in 1997 when everyone (including the royal family) first heard the news of Princess Diana’s death in a car crash in a Paris...

• September 29, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, Television

It seemed like a curious coincidence that I started watching The Tudors shortly after I had finally rented Sofia Coppola’s candy-concocted Marie Antoinette, and a mere couple days after...

• September 29, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Television

After watching hours and hours of royal corruption in the form of King Henry the VIII (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) remolding his kingdom and court to his own devices, I finally...

• September 29, 2013
• At Home, Drama

Let me say this up front: Just having watched season three of The Tudors, where Henry VIII continued to brutally butcher not only his countrymen, but his own advisors...

• October 12, 2007
• At Home, Drama

More than a little over-the-top and art-directed to within an inch of its life, this sequel to 1998’s Elizabeth is set in 1585 and tracks, among other things, the...