Films on Sunday with Lee Liberman

Films on Sunday: Blood of My Blood, an Outlander Prequel

Jamie and Claire Fraser’s ancestry in Outlander offered showrunner Matt Roberts a lot to grow on. The result is a 10-episode prequel — a bodice ripper…

Oct 12 • 

Lee Liberman

September 2025

Films on Sunday; Sisi: Austrian Empress

A six-part mini-series, one of many dozens of tributes in literature and the arts to the troubled life of Empress Elizabeth (Sisi) who was trapped…

Sep 14 • 

Lee Liberman

August 2025

Films on Sunday: The Gilded Age(3); Davos:1917

First: Julian Fellowes probes the history and manners of America’s Gilded Age; Second: Suspenseful spy story and romance in the Swiss Alps during WWI.

Aug 24 • 

Lee Liberman

July 2025

Films on Sunday: OUTRAGEOUS

This series dives into the world of the notorious Mitford sisters — the British IT girls of the 1930’s, satirizing their extreme choices during the…

Jul 27

June 2025

The Levys of Monticello — a review for the 4th of July

I am as happy nowhere else and in no other society, and all my wishes end where I hope my days will end, at Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, August, 1787

Jun 29 • 

Lee Liberman

Miss Austen

Young Meg: ‘Girls can never do anything. Men can ride about the country and do things; girls just sit and wait for things to happen.’ A splendid look…

Jun 1 • 

Lee Liberman

May 2025

May 7 2025 Papal Conclave

Life imitates art.

May 6 • 

Lee Liberman

Films on Sunday: Conclave

The acclaimed story of a Vatican conclave that is prescient in its coincidence with the conclave about to begin this week in May following the death of…

May 4 • 

Lee Liberman

April 2025

films on Sunday: Wolf Hall; The Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel’s last novel plumbs lawyer Thomas Cromwell’s descent from great heights to losing his head in the service of despotic, ailing Henry VIII…

Apr 6 • 

Lee Liberman

March 2025

Films on Sunday: Anora & Flow

Two Academy Award winners: one a spoiled fairy tale about a stripper and a bratty Russian boy; the other, best animated feature from Latvia, charmed…

Mar 23 • 

Lee Liberman

Films on Sunday own Academy Award Winner: SPOTLIGHT

Best picture and best original screenplay at the 2016 Academy Awards re: the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigative unit’s search for truth about the…

Mar 2 • 

Lee Liberman

February 2025

Films on Sunday: A Royal Affair

This is an award-winning 2012 Danish bodice-ripper that helped make its stars famous here. It is real history, real politics, rhyming with history and…

Feb 16 • 

Lee Liberman