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Oct 17, 20182 min readWhy you should be excited about the upcoming Medici: The Magnificent (2018) First of all, the promo for Medici: The Magnificent, unlike the first instalment Medici: Masters of Florence, is entirely in Italian....
Oct 7, 20181 min readHelen Mirren as Catherine the Great in the new mini-seriesOscar-winning actress Helen Mirren will play Catherine II in the four-part series by HBO. According to the announcement on HBO website,...
Oct 5, 20182 min readNew 'Robin Hood' trailer: failed Jack Sparrow & no purpose for the most notorious thief in historySo, from the very first seconds you see what the filmmakers are going with it... and failing miserably. In case you didn't pick up on the...
Oct 4, 20183 min readDoes the new 'Mary, Queen of Scots' trailer reveal too much? The new trailer starts with the end of Mary Stuart's story - her execution after 19 years of captivity in England. What a plot twist it...
Oct 4, 20181 min read'Chronicles of Narnia' remake as TV series by NetflixAlthough Chronicles of Narnia isn't strictly a historical series, fantasy genre drives heavily from Medieval culture, costumes and...
Oct 1, 20185 min readMary, Queen of Scots: is the drama worth historical inaccuracy?Since the trailer's release in June 2018, it faced a wave of criticism - all coming from historians and the Tudors fans. Which is...