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OUFF’s ‘The Oxford Tales’: Celebrating student filmmaking at Oxford

It’s no secret that Oxford has long been an idealised location for film sets; official-looking SUVs with blacked-out windows and attendants in high vis parading up and down Catte Street and around the Rad Cam are a not-unfamiliar sight.

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Behind the red curtain: ‘Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse’ reviewed

Leo Jones reviews Crazy Child Productions' performance of 'Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse', the first English staging of the play.

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Near the riverside, a girl with walnut hair sat with her back to the...

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Oxford on-screen: Historical atmosphere and fantasy worlds

Ideally, we should strike a balance; an awareness of the reality of life at Oxford can co-exist with an appreciation of its grand architecture and historical atmosphere.

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Lady Bird paints a perfect picture of female adolescence

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Not About Heroes review – ‘It is rare to find a student production of such maturity’

Chloe Taylor is impressed and moved by this poignant study of war and poetry

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Judge representative films on merit not just diversity

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Bertie Harrison-Broninski finds this adaptation of Derek Jarman's original film is a show one that he might be proud of

Ishtar preview -‘Nothing if not entrancing’

An excellently engaging gloss of an intriguing archaic myth

Crocodile preview – ‘This is going to be properly funny’

Nitrous Cow look set to provide a rip-roaring comedy follow-up to their sold out debut 'Lovesong' last term

Protest as performance – Suffragettes take the limelight

Breaking the Fifth Wall festival kickstarts with an illuminating talk

I, Tonya sorely misjudges portraying a serious subject

The Oscar-nominated black comedy pokes fun at a subject which is no laughing matter

How Oxford culture is dominated by the most privileged

The issue is not a simple matter of discrimination but long term deficiencies in cultural upbringing in less privileged students

Phantom Thread is Paul Thomas Anderson’s finest film yet

Daniel Day-Lewis' cinematic swan song as a 1950's fashion designer is simply stunning

#Ending the Silence review – ‘there is nothing quite like it’

Joel Stanley reccomends a captivating performance and an unmissable experience

Down with my Demons review – ‘tensions rise as secrets spill’

A talented cast bring this immersive and exciting piece of new writing to the stage

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The vintage sound of The Vaccines

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Hedda review – ‘stubbornly disturbing and nuanced’

The most anticipated-show of Hilary term lands with both style and substance

Self-publishing can counter literary elitism

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The C-Bomb review – ‘the perfect antidote for those mid-term blues’

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OUFF’s ‘The Oxford Tales’: Celebrating student filmmaking at Oxford

Behind the red curtain: ‘Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse’ reviewed

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Oxford on-screen: Historical atmosphere and fantasy worlds

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