Ellen Cheshire

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...

Next month I will be giving a conference paper on films featuring plastic surgery which is part of my research for my MA in Gothic...

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...

Once again actors appearing in Bio-Pics or films based on a true story have swept the Oscar nominations for the 88th Academy Awards. 4 of...

2015 seemed to be an odd year for films. I saw about 35 films at the cinema and this list (not in any particular order) are 10 that have...

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

In many of the reviews for Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak critics made reference to Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto as...

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...

It’s been 75 years since Disney’s Fantasia was released, and 15 years since Fantasia 2000 so I thought it time to re-visit them. Fantasia...

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?” ...

Having watched the Cocteau's 1946 version last week, this weekend I curled up and watched Disney's 1991 animated classic. Well I had to,...

Last year I invested (via kickstarter) in London Symphony, a brand New Silent Film about the Culture and Diversity of London. The...

With the UK release of Christophe Gans new version of the Beauty and the Beast myth still a few months away, thought I'd revisit...

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...