Tuesday 3rd June 2025

Culture

Telling stories about telling stories: Previewing ‘The Antipodes’

In a windowless room in an abstract part of Oriel, I sat in on a rehearsal for Annie Baker’s The Antipodes (2018), on at the Pilch this term. There...
Theatre Emma Scanlon -

A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

"The passage of time is a bloodthirsty hound."
The Source Briony Arnott -

Doctor Zhivago: The banned book the CIA smuggled across the Iron Curtain

“May it make its way around the world. You are hereby invited to watch...
Books Kavya Kapadia -

Sally Rooney, a Flaubert for today?

Like millions of other people in recent years, I have fallen victim to the...
Books Richard Kuehl -
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Victory preview – ‘a truly fantastical world’

Sumptuous visuals, dark comedy and literary flair make this production one not to miss

The Kite Runner review – ‘a choreographed exuberance prose cannot achieve’

The Kite Runner is taken from page to stage in this masterful adaptation. Izzy Troth reviews.

It Happened One Night – merely antiquated, or timelessly great?

Exploring whether this classic film stands the test of time

A slow descent to hell

Cramped seating, culinary complaints and clapping for a landing. Becky Cook hates planes.

Vengeance, violence, and why I lost faith in Game of Thrones

There's nothing more devastating than the downfall of your favourite show... (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)

Downsizing review – ‘leaving the audience more bored than scintillated’

Alexander Payne's latest film loses its way between its big ideas and its tiny characters

The trouble with sex in fiction

Fiction presenting sex as pornography is dishonest and ridiculous

Our paradise is lost

Modern re-tellings of man’s original sin focus on its devastating environmental effects

The Brew that changed the direction of jazz

A look at how Miles Davis seismically shifted his genre

A long way home

Living 10,000 miles away can be both a blessing and a curse

Julius Caesar review – ‘two hours of pounding drama’

Nicholas Hytner's adaptation is makes you rethink the iconic tragedy

The 39 Steps review – ‘It is rare to see an Oxford play take itself as seriously as this 39 Steps – that is,...

Charles Britton is left with a smile on his face after an uncommonly fun night out in Oxford

The 39 Steps preview – ‘guaranteed to be a comedic spectacle of no small intensity’

Alice Taylor previews Antonia Hansen's interpretation of a Hitchcock comedy

Sweet Charity review – ‘Oh Mama, welcome to the 60s!’

Ela Portnoy applauds the strongest dance cast she's seen on an Oxford stage

Beautiful Thing review – ‘Ruckus Productions has certainly made some noise’

Franklin Nelson is impressed by this rendition of a thoughtful, timeless coming-of-age drama

When movie marketing becomes maddening

A misleading trailer can be a frustrating one, but they may be more useful than you'd think

Beautiful Things preview – ‘brilliantly captures a microcosm of London life’

A show about sex, youth and life in the city

Impressionists Tate review – ‘impressive and surprising’

Jonathan Egid is underwhelmed by parts of this exhibition, but impressed by its final three rooms.

Pakistan’s cultural reinvention is spear-headed by its youth

Pakistan’s identity and future is debated in culture both at home and abroad

So bad it’s good: appreciating the joys of cinematic mediocrity

Our absurd obsession with terrible movies
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