SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: Costume Designer Kara Saun on new Jane Austen adaptation – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/24/2024
Susan Lawson-Reynolds, Deborah Ayorinde, Bethany Antonia, Beth Angus in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY | ©2024 Hallmark Channel / Steffan Hill

Hallmark Channel has made a lush new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel SENSE AND SENSIBILITY that premieres Saturday, February 24. The telefilm takes place in the original’s Regency-era England, with a primarily Black cast, headed by Deborah Ayorinde as the principled, passionate Elinor Dashwood. When Hallmark hosts a Q&A panel and then a luncheon for the Winter 2024 Television Critics Association press tour, the lunch room is decorated with mannequins clad in the elaborate costumes for SENSE & SENSIBILITY. Costume designer Kara Saun is in attendance, wearing a coat she made herself. The coat looks like it should have its […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/06/2016
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES movie poster | ©2016 Screen Gems

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Jack Huston, Matt Smith, Sally Phillips, Charles Dance, Lena Headey Writer: Burr Steers, based on the novels by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Director: Burr Steers Distributor: Sony/Screen Gems Release Date: February 5, 2016 It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a zombie movie in possession of a PG-13 rating must be in want and perhaps need of guts, both metaphorical and literal. True, there are some peculiar edits in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, director/writer Burr Steers’ film version of Seth Grahame-Smith’s undead-enhanced rewrite of Jane Austen’s original […]Read On »


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Olivia Williams takes MANHATTAN – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/25/2014
Olivia Williams in MANHATTAN - Season 1 | ©2014 WGN

WGN America’s new series MANHATTAN, airing Sunday nights, is a dramatized look at the then-ultra-secret World War II-era Manhattan Project. The United States hid away a group of scientists and their families in Los Alamos, New Mexico, so that the atomic bomb could be developed without prying eyes. Olivia Williams plays Liza Winter, another scientist who finds herself professionally ignored while her husband Frank, portrayed by John Benjamin Hickey, toils with the other physicists on the practical applications of nuclear fusion. Williams, a native of London, England, is no stranger to historical stories or characters with big secrets. Regarding the […]Read On »


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