The leaves begin to fall to earth. The air turns crisp. ‘Tis time for a deluge of Relationship Movies – our autumnal harvest of Sensitive Young People getting their hearts stomped on, valiantly facing ...

A nifty storytelling device injects literary intelligence into “The Jane Austen Book Club,” making it worth checking out if only for being wittier than the average romantic comedy. Listen to the ...

Robin Swicord’s romantic comedy The Jane Austen Book Club follows a group of Californian people as they delve into the oeuvre of the author Jane Austen and find strange similarities between the themes ...

What initially attracted you to filmmaking and how has that evolved during your career? I always wrote as a child, and I loved movies, but I didn’t understand that movies were written, or even made–I ...

And the love letters to Jane Austen just keep on coming. Members of 'The Jane Austen Book Club' meet to discuss their favorite author in Robin Swicord's film. Earlier this year, we got the heartfelt ...

Never mind Dear Abby, Dr. Phil or Dr. Laura. It’s Jane Austen who’s dishing out the latest advice for the lovelorn. When the movie “The Jane Austen Book Club” piggybacked in theaters last month on ...

Please don't call "The Jane Austen Book Club" a chick flick. That label, tossed off to describe movies by, about and for women, is usually used in the pejorative sense, to dismiss by-the-numbers ...

What would Jane do? That's the mantra that resounds through director Robin Swicord's chick-lit look at a group of five women (and one guy) who, besieged by modern-day traffic, smog, dead cell phones, ...

What if you could live your life to the themes of "Pride and Prejudice," or "Sense and Sensibility"? The new film, "The Jane Austen Book Club," takes on that notion from a novel of the same name. The ...

First there was the Summer of the Three-quel (Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Shrek the Third, Ocean’s 13, Bourne). Now we seem to be in the Autumn of Jane Austen. Last month ...

If you can’t get enough of the Mutually Supportive Sisterhood narrative, there’s every chance you’ll go for this perfectly pleasant, perfectly undistinguished adaptation of a market-driven novel about ...