Tag: Pride and Prejudice
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You’d Never Guess ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Batman’ Share This in Common
Barbie and last year’s The Batman are two very different blockbusters but share some surprising similarities. Both breathed new life into iconic figures deeply ingrained in pop culture — Barbie and Batman — but more specifically, both films share the same costume designer, two-time Oscar winner Jacqueline Durran. The costume design for Barbie specifically has…
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Why Is BBC Pride and Prejudice So Good?
Barbie gets women. Not just understands, but truly sees us. The film tackles some heavy topics like aging and the patriarchy but one bit that made a lot of us feel a little too seen came in the form of the “Depression Barbie” ad. Over the course of the film (and Barbie’s ensuing existential crisis)…
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Matthew Macfadyen’s Mr. Darcy Is the Best Mr. Darcy
Jane Austen’s proud and aloof Mr. Darcy, from her most famous novel Pride and Prejudice, is undoubtedly one of the most famous romantic heroes of all time and has inspired countless others. Since Laurence Olivier in 1940, many actors have tried their hand at portraying him on the small and big screen, but one performance…
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Emily: Everything You Need to Know About the Emma Mackey Film
From Pride and Prejudice and Emma to Little Women and Jane Eyre, the 90s seemed to be a romantic renaissance of movies based on some of the world’s classics, and since the enormous success of the Netflix series Bridgerton, we have begun to see a repeat of the 90s regency craze. With the sudden resurgence…
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All It Took Was Richard Curtis To Get Hugh Grant On Board With Bridget Jones’s Diary
If you’re a fan of ’90s rom-coms, then you probably love the unforgettable films written by Richard Curtis starring the irresistibly charming Hugh Grant. My personal favorite among them is “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” a modern adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” that centers around the indulgent and imperfect Bridget Jones caught in a classic love triangle.…
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Marsha Hunt, Blacklisted Hollywood Actress, Dies at 104
Marsha Hunt, a star of MGM and Paramount beginning in the 1930s who was blacklisted in Hollywood in the ’50s during Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s Communist witch hunt, died Wednesday at age 104.Roger Memos, who directed a documentary about Hunt’s life, confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter.A former model, Hunt was a standout in such…
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Raksha Bandhan review – women get a bad deal from dowry melodrama
Akshay Kumar is the noble-souled hero charged with marrying off his four sisters, while they are left mostly as figures of funIndian film-maker Aanand L Rai gives his very mediocre melodrama a campaigning message about the culture of dowry-paying, though you’ll have to sit through a lot of un-feminist movie to reach it. In truth,…
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‘Persuasion’ Review: An Effervescent Dakota Johnson Gives Jane Austen Drama a Cheeky Retelling
Jane Austen knew a thing or two about complicated women and the way they move through the world. The author’s iconic bibliography — from “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma” to “Sense and Sensibility,” and those are the just the English class curriculum bangers — has always hinged on indelible heroines and their Regency-era attempts to…
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‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’ Review: A Romantic Costume Drama of Deftly Acted Charm
“Mr. Malcolm’s List” has a scrumptious light charm. It’s a Regency romance set in London in 1818, where someone in the film is being fooled at every moment. The deceptions and symmetries are standard, but this is the kind of movie that rises or falls on whether the actors can carry the duplicity — and…
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Back to One, Episode 207: James Scully
James Scully plays Charlie, love interest to Bowen Yang’s Howie, in the new film Fire Island, a touching, hilarious, and entirely queer take on Pride and Prejudice, written by and co-starring Joel Kim Booster, and directed by Andrew Ahn. Scully talks about the imposter syndrome that infected the cast, how sometimes when material is so…