Jane Austen’s comedy of manners, Emma set the template for today’s romantic comedy/dramas and even inspired teen films like Clueless. The latest cinema adaptation of Austen’s much-loved 1815 novel, starring Anna Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn and Bill Nighy, is an enjoyably spirited romp that again reveals why Emma is such an enduring story. Emma Woodhouse is introduced as ‘handsome, clever and
Read moreLove and Friendship is the deceptive title of writer director Whit Stillman’s delightfully acerbic adaptation of Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan. Anchored by a sensational performance from the delectable Kate Beckinsale, Love and Friendship is a delightfully witty and acidic take on 18th century drawing room comedies. Kate plays the seductive, razor-tongued home wrecker Lady Susan Vernon who, after becoming
Read moreLike Snakes On a Plane, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is one those films where the title pretty much sums up the entire film. It takes Jane Austen’s classic romantic novel and archetype of 19th century feminine manners and adds brain eating zombies. The concept seems like a cheap, one joke gimmick and audiences would be forgiven for fearing a
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