Ellen Cheshire

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

The theme for International Women's Day 2022 is #BreakingtheBias, where we are asked to: Imagine a gender equal world... A world free of...

On the 4 March 1975, a frail 85 year old Charlie Chaplin, became Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin when he was knighted by the Queen at...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 11th batch of 52 films since...

With 670 Films and TV series watched in 2021, sorting out my Top 10s has proved a challenge! But I had a go! Sadly, I couldn’t compile a...

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 10th batch of 52 "films"...

Royal bio-pics have been a mainstay of commercial cinema since its inception. Historians fear them, as ultimately, they are seen as a...

125 years ago on the 31 August 1896 audiences expecting a usual night of traditional music hall entertainment at the Pier Pavilion, Worthing were in for a big surprise. For that week’s booking, showman Lt Walter Cole was bringing something special, ‘The new wonder – electric animated pictures’. The Worthing Gazette’s review the following week noted that “the most novel item of the evening’s entertainment is the series of animated photos, the newest and most striking electri

A recent twitter question about the first film you saw in cinemas, brought to mind my first visit, on 22 February 1974 to the Muswell...

Today is the 17 May 2021, and across the UK cinemas are re-opening. And boy, have I missed going to the cinema! Over the past year I have...

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 9th batch of 52 "films"...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is an innovative and hugely entertaining film. You can easily forgive the holes in the plot and one-dimensional...

February is #LGBTHistoryMonth and I am focusing my film watching on LGBTQ films. Check out my diary at letterboxd. After the epic Ben Hur...

In 1914 George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion was first staged - a huge furore broke out when Eliza Doolittle uttered the line “I washed...

Re-watching Spartacus today in remembrance of Jean Simmons who died on this day (22 January) in 2010, I was reminded that I'd written an...

Edgar Allan Poe's name is synonymous with horror and detective fiction. He is considered to be the father of both the detective story,...

In celebration of International Women's Day in March 2020, I set myself the challenge to pick one film a year, directed by a woman since...

Using letterboxd for the first time in 2020 I began logging all films in the diary, making a list of those #DirectedbyWomen. Thereby...

What with a broken ankle at the start of 2020 followed by a pandemic/lockdown/working from home, probably watched more films in 2020 than...

With the additional time saved from working from home and money saved from not going out, I have been watching more films at home, a mix...