Wednesday 18th March 2026

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.
Culture Ruaridh McEwen -

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 -
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‘What’s wrong with being hopeful?’

Charlie Willis explores friendship alongside the flow of the seasons in prose

Hollywood: Beyond the Pale?

David Lawton feels it’s time to reject Hollywood’s regime of systematic oppression once and for all

Cinema’s Resurrection?

Ellie Siora on how innovative screenings must challenge ‘passive’ binge-watch culture, after attending an all-night Wes Anderson marathon

Review: Mustang – confronts the sexualisation of innocence

Alice Townson finds Mustang daringly political and playfully provocative

Review: Love and Friendship – both modernised and faithful

Stillman’s adaptation successfully captures Austin and puts others to shame, writes Zach Leather

I, Daniel Blake: a working class triumph

Jem Bartholomew hopes Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or win can revolutionise our national welfare debate

Live review: Father John Misty

Ellen Peirson-Hagger witnesses a show packed to the brim with energy, sexuality and romance

Oxford’s burning destruction

Daniel Curtis considers the boiling point of Oxford’s stress levels as we near the end of Trinity

Rewind: Bhutan’s tobacco ban

Simran Uppal reflects on 2010 and Bhutan’s total ban on tobacco

“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”

Harriet Dagnall explains how derivative and good music are not mutually exclusive

Review: Of Mice and Men

Ellie Gomes is taken back in time by this nostalgic adaptation of Steinbeck’s classic

Rewind: Orwell’s 1984

Daniel Curtis reflects on the 1949 publication of George Orwell’s 1984

A Beginner’s Guide to… White Denim

Thomas Athey reflects on White Denim's output

Thrift shopping: still cool in 2016?

William Shaw wonders if Macklemore and Ryan Lewis can continue to top the charts

Is this the future, the present or the past of The Strokes?

Graham Mazeine contextualises and gives his first impressions of The Strokes’ new EP

The full blankness of space

Emmanuelle Soffe discusses the misconceptions of modern art galleries and the White Cube effect

“It’s as though I’m being watched”

Cressida Peever’s mystery explores the eery blankness of receiving anonymous postcards

“Smash the shit out of it”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to The Big Moon about their manic tour

Preview: Splendour

Georgia Reddington looks forward to what promises to be a fast-paced and tension-filled production

Review: House of Bernarda Alba

Nina Sandelson is struck by this eerie adaptation of Lorca’s classic in Cellar
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