much ado about nothing

ellen // history / doctor who / lit / art / star wars / peaky blinders / hp / gilmore girls / musicals / costume dramas // previously girlwithapocketwatch

[annvboleyn]

“so many books, so little time” - frank zappa / book quote / by ellen oakley

[barrykoeghan]

#me after any minor inconvenience

[annvboleyn]

Just a couple of wedding snaps for you chaps

Photo credit: Emily Grace Photography

[halfagony-halfhope]

(insp.)

[theandrewkwan]

Mad Max: Fury Road Alternative posters

[thomasangster]

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

[motherflunker]

This is Chicago, kid. You can’t beat fresh blood on the walls.

[annvboleyn]

um, so I don’t think I ever shared this here. THIS HAPPENED.

[fitswilliamdarcy]

The Bennet women in Pride and Prejudice (2005), dir Joe Wright

[darksber]

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

[ivanaivazovsky]

Gustave Jean Jacquet.  A Portrait of a Noble Lady, 1890 (detail)

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Carey Mulligan to Star in BBC’s ‘Collateral’

Carey Mulligan has been set to star in Collateral, the four-part BBC miniseries that puts her back in business with David Hare. Hare wrote Collateral, which SJ Clarkson is directing and The Forge producing, with production starting in April. The mini is described as a modern-day state of the nation project which takes place over four days.

[annvboleyn]

“Well, I guess you don’t know  e v e r y t h i n g  about women yet.”

[annvboleyn]

rest in peace, princess

[tooyoungtoreign]

“Are you going to tell me who you are?”

[cinemove]

favourite musicals:

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

[iamnevertheone]

La La Land (2016) dir. Damien Chazelle

[annvboleyn]

What she says: im fine

What she means: Cleopatra VII was an extremely intelligent woman and one of the greatest political minds of her time. She was the first Ptolemaic ruler to learn and speak in Egyptian because she knew how important it was to connect with the locals, but she also recognised Rome as an emerging power and formed alliances with them instead of making Rome her enemy. She probably saved her kingdom from absorption into Rome during her rule, and yet society has still turned her into yet another one of history's sex objects, who was good for nothing other than her pretty face, a myth that today's media continues to propogate. When will old white men int he film industry learn th