To mark Valentine’s Day here are some love-themed stories from Essex history, some with happy endings, some with bloody ones.

There are many reasons to seek out Charles Burnett's long-buried 1999 film, but perhaps primary among them: The rare chance to see Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder and James Earl Jones share the screen.

Before she took over cinemas, Bridget Jones was scribbling away in The Independent. As Mad About the Boy hits screens, we ...

There was a suggestion of ‘shipping’ – that branch of fan fiction that spins romance between pre-existing characters. Some other promising ... It had taken much persuasion to get Miss Havisham onto ...

Christine McVie, in some ways, mirrored the character of Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations: the spurned bride in her decaying wedding dress, left alone at a feast that ...

The big books. The ambitious books, the life-changing books, the long books, the time-consuming books, the dense books. Not ...

INTERVIEW: After decades of playing posh, smug supporting roles, comic actor Punch finally has the opportunity to star as a ...

Set in London‘s high-fashion industry during the era depicted in Phantom Thread, It Started in Paradise was shot in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff but is rarely seen today. Curator Josephine Botting ...

The series was filled with drama from her love life, family relationships, and interactions with eccentric characters ... Marvel series Secret Invasion, Miss Havisham in drama series Great ...

Abhishek Kapoor’s Fitoor, a baggy soggy limp adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations clocks 9 years on this day.

She may never be on time or look quite as she would like to, but Bridget is a reliable box-office draw—even a quarter of a ...