Tag Archives: Jane Austen

Review in Brief: Emma. (2020)

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Rarely has Jane Austen’s work been funnier on film. OK, her work as presented in LOVE & FRIENDSHIP was funnier, but that was mostly because Tom Bennett plays the perfect idiot. EMMA, the film and the character (Anya Taylor-Joy) is … Continue reading →

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Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

There are projects that very obviously started with a catchy title and worked backwards from there. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES is just such an idea and continues Seth Grahame-Smith’s penchant for adding an oddity to a familiar story following … Continue reading →

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Review: Love & Friendship (2016)

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

It’s Jane Austen, but not quite as we know it. Whit Stillman’s LOVE & FRIENDSHIP adapts one of the titanically influential novelist’s lesser-known and unfinished stories (originally titled LADY SUSAN) and the result is a film that is both delicate … Continue reading →

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