Ellen Cheshire

On 1 July 2016 I took time out of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna to take in an amazing exhibition of Barbie dolls. Little...

Started a new film-watching challenge in June. June will now be a deep dive into an actor working across the 40s, 50s etc. I’m starting...

Four Films. Three Venues. Two Days. One hell of a weekend! Saturday morning I headed down the A27 to Southsea for The Frank Matcham...

When the circus pitches up at the end of your road it would be churlish not to go. And go I did for the first performance of its five day...

At only 22, satirist, editorial cartoonist, puppet maker and animator Zoom Rockman (unbelievably his real name) is celebrating his 10th...

I do love a circus, and Zippos Circus is one of the best… Here are a few snaps from my night at the circus at Montrose Park, Colindale on...

This week’s work trip to London saw me in my old stomping ground of Muswell Hill and East Finchley. Therefore, there was no need to ask...

There's plenty of evidence when you hit certain parts of Hampshire that you are entering Austenland. There are trails, tea shops and of...

This week I was in London for a couple of days for meetings in Harrow and Burnt Oak. On both days my post-meeting bus stop was opposite a...

A last minute change of plans of what to do during my day trip from the South Coast to Birmingham (yes I know it's 174 miles!) led me to...

134 years ago today (in 1889), Charlie Chaplin was a born in South London. 10 years ago (in 2013), I was invited to research and write...

Whenever I visit a new town or city, I am keen to combine my love of film and cinema with exploring places off the beaten track. This may...

I think this may well be the fastest watch of 52 films #DirectedbyWomen. With the 15th batch of 52 completed on 29 January, here's the...

A friend, ProfTonks, set us both the challenge to watch as many of this year’s Oscar Nominated films as possible! As of the afternoon of...

It's 2023, and I’m rewinding 50 years to 1973 to watch seven films from that year that I’ve never seen before. Alongside these, I...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 15th batch of 52 films since...

Once a month the village hall in the sleepy Sussex village of Slindon gets a Hollywood makeover when it is transformed into Slindon...

After popping to the University of Southampton, Avenue Campus I made a detour to a suburb of Southampton to hit the charity shops in...

Whilst clearing out a store room at the Worthing WOW offices we found a couple of boxes of Electric Pictures: A Guide to the Films,...

With thanks to @letterboxd pro stats, compiling this end of year film lists so much simpler. I logged 756 films this year, 596...