Pride and Prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Andrea Arnold’s new version of Wuthering Heights is beautiful to look at and confidently directed, without quite possessing the power of the source material. But it is an admirable and innovative adaptation which deserves credit for attempting to reinvigorate a tired format.

Top 10 Classic Novels (That Filmmakers Won’t Leave Alone)

This Friday heralds the release of Andrea Arnold’s new film version of Emily Brontë’s beloved novel, Wuthering Heights. In honour of this occasion, which marks the FIRST TIME anyone has made a film of this book, BFF have compiled a list of…wait, what? What’s that you say? You mean, there’s been a film of Wuthering Heights before?! Seriously, though, here’s a list of the Top 10 classic novels that KEEP GETTING FILMED.

10 things sexier on film than in real life

God, things are sexy, aren’t they? So many things that there are, and all of them sexy. Baths, cooking, pithy conversations in a descending elevator – all you need is Anne Hathaway, some improbably witty back and forth with a chiselled titaniMAN, and boom – fruitful flesh-grappling is in the air. Except, of course, that it never is. Not really.

Will Emma Stone return to Regency Zombieland?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains…”

Friday Drinking Game #1 – Period Films

TGIF!!! In celebration of the week’s natural end, we’ve decided to make this day all about the alcohol. We’ve got the drunken, ill-informed Friday Face/Off, and now we’ve got our Friday drinking game. Grab some friends (or do it on your own, if you feel so inclined), get the Lambrini lined up, and consider yourself sozzled.

Carey Mulligan for The Great Gatsby?

Carey Mulligan is reportedly Baz Luhrmann’s first choice for the role of Daisy in his long-awaited adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Yay!

David Slade and Scarlett Johansson for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

The adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel in which a plague of flesh-eating undead liven up the classic Jane Austen tale has had surprising difficulty getting off the ground, but could director David Slade and Scarlett Johansson be the people to change all that?

Zombie Pride and Prejudice director announced

Following the news that Natalie Portman is producing and starring in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, we now have news of a director for the film.

Natalie Portman…and Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is Seth Grahame-Smith’s best-selling adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic. In this version, heroine Elizabeth Bennet also has to fight off zombies after the outbreak of a virus that turns dead people into flesh-eating zombies.

Who’s Directing My Fair Lady?

We all heard the news a few months ago, a film remake (yawn) of My Fair Lady, directed by Joe Wright- the man who brought us Keira Knightley being all big-chinny in Pride and Prejudice and Keira Knightley playing ‘my chin is quite sad’ in Atonement. But wait! Today it’s been announced that this whole Joe Wright palava is one big porky.