Ellen Cheshire

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 Cinema, screening classic films on 35 mm film. This mini dream palace was a labour of love for student Joe Cornick who, for an A Level Film project, brought the projection box in the Coronation Hall back to use. The box was built in the 1930s but no projector was ever installed. Well, there's one there now and they are currently screening via 35

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...

Since 1952, the British Film Institute through its magazine, Sight and Sound, has conducted a poll of film critics every decade to find...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 14th batch of 52 films since...

Back in March 2022, for International Women's Day, I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021- Stories Women Tell, where I selected a...

I originally published this post on the 17 May 2021 when across the UK cinemas started re-opening after covid lockown. And boy, had I...

Visiting Gerrards Cross to deliver a study day as part of the Gerrards Cross Summer School. A free evening and the lure of a new cinema...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 13th batch of 52 films since...

For International Women's Day I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021- Stories Women Tell, where I selected a single film per year,...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 12th batch of 52 films since...