by Stephanie Dray | Jun 28, 2016 | American Revolution, Entertainment, For Readers, Historical Fiction Genre
It’s been a great week for season finales of my favorite shows, and since everyone had so much fun with my spoilerific thoughts on Game of Thrones, I thought I’d do it again with TURN. So, without further ado. Here be Spoilers. Ah, Nathan Hale. Sorry you...
by Stephanie Dray | Jun 26, 2016 | Entertainment, For Readers, The Gingerbread Princess
HERE BE SPOILERS. Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the season six finale of Game of Thrones. Now, let us proceed. These are the thoughts I had while watching the show tonight in roughly sequential order. Ok. Less than three minutes into the show and it...
by Stephanie Dray | Sep 30, 2013 | Entertainment
“The whole thing felt kinda shady, like morality wise.” ~Skinny Pete If you haven’t already seen the ending to the hit AMC show, BREAKING BAD, stop reading now. Because I’m about to ruin the ending for you… So why am I so down on one of my favorite...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 23, 2011 | Entertainment, Fun Stuff, Miscellany
I first came to admire Elizabeth Taylor for her definitive portrayal of Cleopatra in the 1963 production. She never won an award for it–those accolades would come from other movies–and Elizabeth Taylor’s antics, on and off the set, bankrupted a...
by Stephanie Dray | Aug 28, 2010 | Entertainment, Historical Fiction Genre, Miscellany
This is an excellent review of the Sword and Sandal Genre in cinema. I’m not sure what the correlation is to novels, however. It’d be interesting to compare. I’ve been contemplating writing an article for the Romance Writers of America monthly zine...
by Stephanie Dray | Aug 26, 2010 | Entertainment
This is more than a little past my time period, but I cannot resist an ancient Roman sword-and-sandal epic and this one looks better than any recent such endeavor. This review makes it sound rather promising.
