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Adjust your corsets for this trailer of Jane Austen’s Emma

OK confession time. Despite possessing a degree in English literature I have never once read a novel by Jane Austen. I'm well aware of her enduring popularity even though it's been two centuries since she passed. Her critique and commentary...

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The UnPopular Opinion: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We’re hoping this column will...

Review: Love & Friendship

PLOT: Newly widowed and destitute, Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) enlists the aid of her American friend, Alicia (Chloe Sevigny) in a scheme designed to net her a rich new husband. REVIEW: In a way, Jane Austen adaptations are basically...

Exclusive Interview: The Stars of Pride + Prejudice + Zombies!

Whoever would have thought about mixing Jane Austen with a zombie apocalypse? Well author Seth Grahame-Smith did with his original novel, and now PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES is a major motion picture with an impressive cast. With Lily James, Matt...

Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

PLOT: Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters have a difficult enough time trying to find an appropriate husband that is a worthy match. When you throw in the living dead, the girls not only must find time for courtship, they also...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: What We Learned On Set!

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES has been in development since before the Seth Grahame-Smith novel was published by Quirk Books in 2009.  At the time, the future ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER author was just taking the classic Jane Austen novel...
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