Pride & Prejudice & Zombies is surely the strangest work of fiction I've ever encountered. It's Austenverse AU fanfic. It's so obviously the product of an evening session over beers where the woman was saying how much she loved P&P and the man was saying, "You know what would improve that thing? Zombies, that's what." And a million-selling idea was ( Read more... )

I've just rewatched Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility. It's one of my favorite movies, partly because of the juxtaposition of director and material, which is unexpectedly perfect. You wouldn't think that the Taiwanese director of Eat, Drink, Man, Woman would be a likely choice to direct a Jane Austen story, but Sense and Sensibility is all about ( Read more... )