loaded question: what’s a perfect cosy movie for long dark winter evenings?
I love the hygge of this time of year: candles, warm drinks, snuggling under a blanket watching films. But which films to watch?
Sense and Sensibility
what she said: Emma Thompson…
…on what women in movies need to do to make their voices heard…
cinematic roots of: ‘Nanny McPhee Returns’ (aka ‘Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang’)
In *Nanny McPhee Returns,* Emma Thompson’s stern, scary babysitter teaches a gaggle of monstrous brats a couple of things about being civilized people. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Becoming Jane (review)
I love *Becoming Jane* even if it is almost entirely invented, because it captures both the aching romanticism and the cold, hard practicalities of Austen’s fiction.
