The title, the Devil’s Bride, makes this film sound like a horror movie from the early 70s, and, indeed, a film of the same name was produced then. But this movie is a horror flick of a different sort: the story of what happens to women who are condemned by…
Shangai is a 2015 release currently available on Netflix DVD. If you’re a John Cusack fan like I am, and always wanted to appreciate him as a romantic lead, you’re still going to have to wait. He does his best in this film, which sat on the Hollywood shelf for…
Reading the Past is my go-to site for finding an excellent historical fiction book. If you love historical fiction, especially female-centric historical fiction, you’ll love this site. The woman who runs the site, Sarah Johnson, is a librarian who has been posting on the blog for twelve years. She’s a…
Having read The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory, I thought I knew all I needed to about Margaret Beaufort, the grandmother of Henry VIII. This book, The Beaufort Bride, doesn’t uncover much in the way of new information, but it’s an entertaining read, written mostly from the perspective of a…
Babylon Berlin, a Netflix series of 16 episodes, all in German, is unusual in that it examines Berlin in the period before the Nazis came to power. It’s the story of Gereon Rath, a police inspector from Cologne who moves to Berlin to work with the cops there while on…
