LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Girl-meets-boy stories are not the usual stuff of Hollywood blockbusters, even when it's girl-meets-vampire. Neither are stories created by women, with a predominantly female audience, shot on a bargain budget with a cast of relative unknowns and released by an independent distributor trying to establish a niche among Hollywood's half-dozen studio behemoths. ...more

November 17, 2008

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, crashed computers and unfaithful spouses, turn to Jane Austen for solace. ...more

October 5, 2007