Ellen Cheshire

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...

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