Tuesday 10th June 2025

Culture

Review: All My Sons – ‘At the end of the American Dream’

Joe Keller, played by Tristan Hood, represents the American dream. He is a wealthy businessman with a traditional family with a surviving son that is about to marry. Like...

Review: The Tempest – ‘Power looks good on her’

All the guests arrived and promptly took their seats, as one of the directors...

Review: Bush! The Musical – ‘Is our actors singing?’

While the genre of historical musical theatre centred around US politicians may be dominated...

Review: So Far, So Good – ‘Counting down the fall’

Student theatre has always thrived on experimentation, collaboration, and the courage to speak up....

Readers’ Photo Competition

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A product of pointless nostalgia

Natalia Bus argues against the unfulfilling nature of musical reunions

Mrs Dalloway: A novel in cinemascope

Alice Robinson explores how Virginia Woolf embraces the techniques and temporality of the cinema in her writing

Reviewing Moffat: The Doctor Who Christmas Special

“Doctor Who does superheroes” is a premise which seems obvious. The show’s greatest asset is its ability to jump from one genre to the...

Which film best represents your college?

Oxford colleges are known for their quirks, and inspired by these traits, here’s part two of the Cherwell guide to movies that reflect our...

Reviewing Moffat: Sherlock Series Four

This series of Sherlock is particularly varied, playing around with genre far more than usual. The first episode, ‘The Six Thatchers,’ feels at many...

Spotlight: Sal Para

Natalia Bus is captivated by this Oxford artist's authentic debut effort

Review: The Leopard

Altair Brandon-Salmon revisits the classic Italian 20th century novel

Nick D’Aloisio: Oxford’s new media hero

Theo Davies-Lewis investigates the undergraduate tech prodigy who chose Oxford over MIT or Stanford

Single of the week: Arcade Fire’s ‘I Give You Power’

Will Cowie remains unmoved by Arcade Fire's impassive anti-Trump release

Walking the pilgrim’s way

Looking back at his exhibition 'We will meet', Alvin Ong tells Sophie Jordan of his walks along the thin line between memory and fiction

Which film best represents your Oxford college?

Oxford colleges are known for their quirks, and inspired by these traits, here’s part two of the Cherwell guide to movies that reflect our...

Instagram: the art of on screen reinvention

William Hosie reminds us to view others’ Instagram personae with some crucial critical distance

A fusion of movement, light, and sound

Christopher James Goring finds much to admire in the complexity of Illuminated

Margo Price live at the Bullingdon

Emily Beswick is delighted by the raw energy of Price's live show

Review: John Hodge’s ‘Collaborators’

Bessie Yuill finds herself simultaneously amused and disturbed by this dark tragedy about a fictional meeting between Stalin and Bulgakov

Four Gorillaz of the Ape-ocalypse

Natalia Bus on the anti-Trump rhetoric of the chilling Gorillaz release

Review: ‘Edward II’

Susannah Goldsbrough is captivated by Oxford's finest acting talents and their leather leggings

Review: ‘A Monster Calls’

Jonnie Barrow is impressed by Bayona’s adaptation of an underrated children’s novel

Disney princesses and ‘Lolita’: the danger of men writing women

Carolina Earle explores how masculine fantasies have shaped and corrupted our childhood obsessions

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