Friday, May 30, 2025

Culture

Gregory Crewdson: How to remain relevant in the world of fine art photography

For anyone embarking on their photography journey now, the world of image creation can seem very daunting. The market is oversaturated with photographers, all creating broadly similar and anonymous...
Art Richard Kuehl -

Film photography: How I went from believer to skeptic

I’m far from the first person to point out the recent revival of analogue...
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The afterlife of stories: The art and ambiguity of literary retellings

Love, betrayal, justice, jealousy: these are timeless themes, woven into the human experience for...
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What books do professors of different subjects read?

In discussion of ‘the great man theory’, Professor Dominic Scott discussed his recent reading...
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Preview: Catz Arts Festival

Tom Barrie looks ahead to a week of arts events at St Catherine's

Review: Toro y Moi – What For

Sam Joyce is impressed by a subtle new direction from Toro Y Moi

In photos: the fire at the Randolph

Cherwell brings you a visual montage of the events unfolding

Review: The Whitworth Gallery

Mark Barclay visits new exhibitions in Manchester's most prestigious art gallery

Review: Lost River

Ryan Gosling loses himself beneath his influences, in his stylish but messy directorial debut, Sam Joyce writes

6 songs to keep the Oxford bubble alive over the vac

Only a week to go before you return, but these songs should help to keep you going until then

Review: Kid Rock – First Kiss

Kid Rock fails to impress William Ferris with his latest offering

Coalition

Mark Barclay finds this Channel 4 film pits power against principle to dramatic but disenfranchising effect

Review: Cinderella

Anthony Maskell finds the live action Disney flick entertaining but unambitious

The Stranglers reviewed: no more heroes anymore?

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews 70s rockers, The Stranglers' latest appearance at Oxford's O2 Academy

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

In the wake of the BFI's cinematic re-release of the cult classic, Toby Scadding takes a look back at how audiences came to love Blade Runner

Review: The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Rose Sykes is completely won over by this visually-striking, grown-up folk tale from Japan's Studio Ghibli

Review: NTLive’s A View from the Bridge

Sophie Hall-Luke finds the view from her cinema seat perfect for this stage adaption

Review: Still Alice

An Oscar-winning Julianne Moore is left in search of a film, in this Alzheimer's drama

Review: The Babadook

Anthony Maskell calls The Babadook a landmark chiller

An artist’s obsessions

Surya Bowyer reviews the Barbican's eclectic new exhibition of artists' personal collections

Review: Poldark

Sophie Hall-Luke is seduced by Poldark's charms.

Review: Insurgent

Emmanuelle Soffe struggled to engage with the latest disposable entry in the Divergent series.

Review: Wild Tales

Toby Scadding finds this Almodóvar produced anthology a riotous examination of people pushed to the brink.

Review: Nurse

Dominic Hewett finds Paul Whitehouse's new dark comedy adept at balancing humanity and humour
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