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 -

At crossed purposes

Ben Cooke declares ITV's new exorcism drama a biblical waste of time

Oxford cinemagoing: a primer

Toby Scadding weighs the options for your next cinema visit

The hottest summer you never even had

Fintan Calpin takes a look back at the nostalgic comedy of 2001 cult film Wet Hot American Summer

Milestones: Psychocandy

This week, Sam Joyce discusses The Jesus and Mary Chain’s seminal album Psychocandy, which birthed the Shoegaze scene

Shutter speeds and the passage of time

Sam Joyce goes in search of the past and the self in the works of several famous photographers

Drama needs video

Henner Petin writes the most exciting article you will ever watch

Remembrance of theatre past

Mark Barclay wistfully recalls the idealism of freshers’ week

‘End of the road’? Hopefully not.

Zoe Hare champions the growing independent festival

Please buy Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album on iTunes

It's really good I promise

Review: Halsey – Badlands

'moving in the sense that your eyes will roll right out of your head'

Review: Inside Out

Frankie Shama on Pixar's resounding comeback film

Airbrushing our art and architecture

Emmanuelle Soffe on the damaging effects of laser cleaning ancient buildings

Electronic vs. Paper – A Real Page Turner

Ben Ray on the great debate

Was Cumberbatch right?

Mark Barclay asks why nobody questioned Benedict's latest outburst

Review: Beach House – Depression Cherry

Catherine Kelly sinks her teeth into Beach House's Depression Cherry

Live Review: Mac Demarco at the Camden Roundhouse

Fintan Calpin recounts an evening of swaying, smoking and musical intoxication

Writers on film

Ben Cooke discusses why so many films about writers seem silly

The Frank is for Turning…sort of.

Zoe Hare reviews Frank Turner's latest album: 'Positive songs for Negative People'

Into the ring: boxing and social mobility in cinema

Olivia Sung asks if boxing is cinema's greatest arena for exploring social mobility

The Proms: ‘Wouldn’t you simply die without Mahler?’

An impressed Sean Dunn sees Ludwig's finale for a fiver

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