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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s latest horror novel, about an Indigenous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a frenetic montage detailing the way technology makes us feel testy and out of control, writer-director Robin Swicord quickly establishes that her film takes place in the modern world. So how ...

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 ...

"You don't have to know books to be in the club." This is the tagline to "The Jane Austen Book Club," a romantic drama written and directed by Robin Swicord. Swicord herself is no stranger to books, ...