Ellen Cheshire

In January 2016 I pledged to watch #52FilmsbyWomen, as the end of the year approached I had to cram in extra film screenings to meet my...

My Top 10 Films of 2016 were... Hail, Caesar! Written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Florence Foster Jenkins...

In 2015 I wrote a chapter on women working behind the camera in the silent film period for Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema, published in...

Today (15 July) would have been Iris Murdoch's 97th Birthday. Born in 1919 she died aged 80 in 1999. In my book Bio-Pics: a life in...

I had to do the maths twice for this, I just can't belive it is 19 years today since Bound (1996) was released in the UK. It was one of...

This month (February 2016) saw the publication of Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema by Supernova Books. I was thrilled to discover that...

There has been much written this year about women film directors and the lack of opportunities for them. So as people are pulling...

There has been much written in the press recently about the age gap between male and female on-screen love pairings. When I was writing...

Ahead of Thursday's screening of Sense and Sensibilty as part of Worthing WOW's Jane Austen season here's an extract from the chapter on...

A few years back Linda Thorson, who played Tara King in 33 episodes of The Avengers in 1968-69, very kindly responded to some email...

On Monday evening I was channel hopping and found Moulin Rouge had just started on Movie Mix, "I'll watch of bit of this" I thought - two...

150 years ago, people read for the first time Alice’s immortal line “And what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversation?” ...

I have always had a soft spot for the MGM musical extravaganzas of the 1950s, particularly those starring Esther Williams, the swimming...

A few years ago I had what for many people would be THE perfect job. I had to watch every single film Audrey Hepburn had ever made, for...

Recently I've been working on a chapter for Aurora Metro's forthcoming Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema (exploring women’s contribution...