Pride & Prejudice (2005) FAN Blog

Two more P&P Blu-ray Reviews below from... Monsters and Critics It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen is the most beloved romantic novel ever written.  Because of its appeal, this story has been adapted many times for both films and television.   This adaptation had theatrical release in 2005 and stars Kiera Knightley and Matthew McFadyen as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy , and is now available in Blu-Ray. Everyone who loves Pride & Prejudice has a favorite adaptation, and some are vehement about this, ready to argue the points passionately that set their choice above others.   There is always the question, is it faithful to the original?  It would be difficult for any production to be faithful to the novel, firstly because it IS a novel, and these are living people giving inflection and nuances to their interpretations and dialog that is often a passage of description in text.  We are also cit...

Here's a very nice and interesting (from a male's perspective/point of view) Pride & Prejudice Blu-ray review by Casey Broadwater over at Blu-ray.com . Pride & Prejudice Blu-ray Review “We fully expect a most advantageous marriage!” Reviewed by Casey Broadwater After watching the film on Blu-ray last night — a sumptuous visual experience that I’ll get to later — I felt the same way as I did five years ago in the theater, almost shocked by how uncharacteristically involved I was in the romance of Lizzy Bennet and the brooding Mr. Darcy. Make fun of me if you’d like, challenge my masculinity or taste in film, but I’ll readily admit that while watching Pride & Prejudice I might as well have been tittering like a schoolgirl in the throes of her first real crush. Near the conclusion, where everyone gets exactly what and who they deserve, I was smiling so much that my jaw ached and I began to feel self-conscious, even though there was nobody else in the r...

Today is the DVD release day for Jena Malone 's 2007 film, Into The Wild . In this film, Jena co-starred with Emile Hirsch , Marcia Gay Harden , William Hurt , Kristen Stewart , and Vince Vaughn . Directed by Oscar Winner Sean Penn, Into The Wild was nominated for 2 Oscars ( Best Achievement in Editing and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role ) as well as 2 Golden Globe (which won for Best Original Song for Eddie Vedder ). According to DVD Active , Into The Wild DVD is being released on standard , 2-Disc Collector's Edition , and HD DVD . Further Details: Paramount Home Entertainment has announced standard and special edition releases of Into the Wild which stars Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, and Catherine Keener. The Sean Penn directed drama will be available to own from the 12th February March 4th. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. No extras will be incl...

Matthew Macfadyen 's hilarious 2007 film (with real-life wife co-star Keeley Hawes ) is released on DVD today! Be sure to get your copy or rent it in your local Best Buy, Blockbuster, FYE or any movie-stop store in your area. From DVD Review : Will a Death At A Funeral make you laugh? We bet... With Frank Oz at the helm a movie is almost guaranteed to be an insightful and funny experience, and as such we are looking forward to welcoming Death At A Funeral to home video in February from MGM Home Entertainment . A dignified funeral ceremony erupts in uproarious chaos when a family is forced to come to terms with each other’s bad behavior, outrageous faults and hidden secrets. It is a sharp, snappy and uplifting story that also comes with a number of cool bonus features. Presented in anamorphic widescreen and a fullframe presentation the DVD will feature a 5.1 channel Dolby Digital audio track . As extras you will find a Commentary Track by director Frank Oz in th...

Read Entertainment Weekly 's DVD review for Becoming Jane (available on DVD on Tuesday , February 12th ) below: Becoming Jane mines novelist Jane Austen 's own life as she was sketching out the skeleton of 1813's Pride and Prejudice . The loosely biographical script is a charmer; the supporting cast (Julie Walters, Maggie Smith, James Cromwell) is top-drawer; and Anne Hathaway , with her coltish beauty and frank demeanor, is a welcome Jane. As with the best interpreters of Austen heroines on film — from Sense and Sensibility 's Emma Thompson to Pride 's Jennifer Ehle — her toughness is a vital defense of a tender core. Jane wishes to marry for affection (of course!), but her struggling family is in a bind and there's a dull if decent rich man (Laurence Fox) on bended knee. James McAvoy , slightly less unbidden than in Atonement but possessing a similar dreamy oomph, plays her Irish love interest, a future lawyer who must also marry for money. How these two de...

Here's Entertainment Weekly 's DVD review for The Jane Austen Book Club movie (available on DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow 2/5 ): In the perfectly fair Jane Austen Book Club , a woman proclaims that her favorite author is the perfect antidote. ''To what?'' her friend wonders. ''To life.'' Any fan, from the casual admirer of Austen's novels to the Janeite who has a freeze-frame of a soaking-wet Colin Firth in the beloved BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice hanging on her vanity mirror, knows the truth behind this exchange. The heroines have marvelous pluck, dances end with pressed hands and flushed cheeks, and goodness and humor always prevail. Book Club — Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 best-seller about modern-day Californians who escape their troubles by reading a different Austen work each month — tapped into not just the joy we find in her prose but also the hope that our lives might mirror such fantasies. But the film, lacking the zip a...