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The Miss Marples

5 July 2008

We’ve been long time fans of Agatha Christie’s books and naturally the adaptations of said books to the screen. We had some doubts about featuring them in our blog as they are set in somewhat recent times but since we have featured other movies from the same period we finally decided to go ahead and [...]

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Top 10 Favourite Historical Villains: Who are they?

17 May 2008

After our Top 10 Favourite Historical Heroines and Heroes in series and movies, we felt that we needed also a Top 10 Villains. What’s a good movie without a terrifying villain ?! ;-) 
 

Amon Göth/Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List. This must be one of the most powerful roles of Ralph Fiennes’ career. How easily he slipped under the skin [...]

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How Hard Can it Be?

9 April 2008
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Did you ever wonder how hard could it be to be part of an historical serie?
Last year, ITV decided to adapt to the small screen three novels by Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Persuasion – and they were aired in the US not so long ago. In all of them adjustments were made [...]

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And the Oscar Goes to…

24 February 2008
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The 80th Academy Awards edition will take place today and many great movies are in the run for an award (some more than one!). In this post will we mention only the historical ones, since it’s the main theme of this blog but, of course, we cannot resist to discuss the other contestants. ;-)

One of [...]

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Top 10 Historical Heroines: Who Are They?!

19 February 2008
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After our Top 10 Favourite Historical Heroes in series and movies, we felt that we needed to do our Top 10 Heroines also. This list doesn’t have a particular order, these are just those heroines we cannot resist, even if we do have a little weakness for Lizzy. ;-)

Elizabeth Bennett / Jennifer Ehle in BBC’s [...]

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Christmas Special about Christmas Movies

22 December 2007
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What is it about Christmas Movies that makes us want to watch them? Is it about the family values, the cheerfulness and joy of the season, that special message of giving and sharing, helping the ones in distress? Every December several movies with a seasonal theme are released while others are played repeatedly on TV [...]

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Top 10 Historical Heroes: Who Are They?!

11 December 2007
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After some discussion, we all thought it would be fun to make a Top 10 of our Favourite Historical Heroes in series and movies. At first we were aiming for a Top 3 until we finally admitted it was an impossible task, as it is we still struggled to choose just 10. Who are those [...]

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How Old Does it Have to Be…

29 October 2007
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… to be considered historical?
With the proliferation of movies set in the first half of the 20th century this question becomes more and more frequent. For instance, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are among our favourite series, Agatha Christie’s famous characters who lived in around 1920/1930. Can those be considered historical adaptations? We’d like to [...]

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New World, New Blog

9 October 2007

We are 3 Portuguese girls, you’ll know us through our sigs – Alex, Ana O. and Ana T. – Alex lives in Paris, France while the two Anas live in different cities in Portugal. We got together because we like to read books, lots and lots of books! But soon we discovered there was another [...]

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