Culture

How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.

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Translating Oxford into Urdu

It’s a different emotion whenever I read the Urdu language. I’m not a native speaker, nor have I actively pursued learning the language, but as someone who finds solace in reading shayari (Urdu poetry), I wanted to follow it even in Oxford.

Books Manya Singh -

Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

A few weeks ago we, the Cherwell fashion editors, were lucky enough to be extended an invite by the Global Fashion Collective to their London Fashion Week show.

Culture Cherwell Fashion -

Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.

Culture Charlie Bailey -

Thoughts on Fleabag

Natasha Burton sings the praises of new BBC3's 'Fleabag' as a simultaneously pertinent and contemporarily prevalent show.

Review: XX (kiss kiss)

Aidan Balfe is enthralled by the innovation of the algorithmic play about love

Review: Pussyfooting

Richard Birch is deeply impressed by an OUDS national tour confronting gender and its norms

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – OUDS Summer Tour

Mark Barclay loses himself in the OUDS Summer Tour production in London

Is the emergence of festival chic synonymous with the descent into festival faux?

Jemma Silvert explores how on-screen commercial portrayal of the festival effects festival culture, aside from just being a product of it.

Cherwell Summer Picks: A Little Bit More Than Five Unmissable Albums

Ted Mair has five and a half ways to make your life better as he lists his top albums for this summer

Tuition fees: Here we go again

Jessica Evans depicts students being taken for a ride

Review: OUDS Tour – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The OUDS international tour's first performance takes Matt Roberts to a world of brummy fairies

This son of York won’t leave you discontented

Alec Fullerton adores Ralph Fiennes as the dastardly Richard III

Pokémon Go or Pokémon No? A debate

Is Pokemon Go redeeming society, or destroying it? Is it to be our salvation, or is this the end of days?

Album review: California – blink-182

Daniel Curtis analyses blink-182's hit comeback album.

Books and Lit: What to read this summer

Missing those reading lists? Katie Mennis has five great reads to keep you entertained this summer

Film and TV: A summer preview

Ellie Siora looks to offset the post-term blues through film and TV

The revolution will be live-streamed

Daniel Curtis explores the narrative merits of video games

Touring the Ruskin Show’s newly-defined spaces

Anietie Ekanem is taken by the interactive experience of the Ruskin Show

Review: Colin and Katya – Innovative and Marvelous

FIVE STARS Jack Clover is the talk of the town and upon the evidence of his latest play, Colin and Katya, rightly so. Staged among the...

‘Tough times’ in doom pop

Joshua Mascord gets the latest from Lonely the Brave’s Ross Smithwick

A discussion with Buzz Aldrin

Ben Ray is over the moon about Blackwell's event with the legendary astronaut

Poetry: Tpyomaniac [sic]

Fronk Davey's sonnet examines the perils of typos.

Playlists and procrastination: soundtracking exam season

Sophie Jordan explores the link between revision, creativity and music

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