Wednesday, May 28, 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...

Film photography: How I went from believer to skeptic

I’m far from the first person to point out the recent revival of analogue...

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...

What books do professors of different subjects read?

In discussion of ‘the great man theory’, Professor Dominic Scott discussed his recent reading...

Review: Seventh Son

Anthony Maskell finds Sergei Bodrov's sword-and-sorcery epic a disappointing waste of time and talent

"HOLY SH*T I’M ONLINE": art, literature and the web

Fintan Calpin discusses postinternet art and literature

Preview: Game of Thrones Season Five

Emmanuelle Soffe recaps events on the hit show, and looks ahead to what may be coming our way in the next season

Review: Mark Knopfler – Tracker

Mark Barclay is disappointed by Knopfler's good but predictable album

Review: Mommy

Sam Joyce finds Xavier Dolan's latest oedipal family drama to be a revelation.

The review club: filthy, spoiled, rotten

A look at the dark side of the Oxford drama world

6 songs to show you and your old mates still like each other

Stifle your weeping and listen to The Killers

Review: Life Itself

Anthony Maskell reviews Steve James' celebratory documentary about the life of America's most famous film critic

Hitchcock and Voyeurism

Anthony Maskell explores how the legendary director changed the way audiences watched cinema

6 Songs That Will Show Your Mum How Cool You’ve Become

Your mum's never even heard of PC Music. Let her know how uncool that is.

How not to talk to grown ups: Ian McEwan’s The Children Act

Ben Cooke reviews Ian McEwan's latest novel.

Islamic State’s war on cultural heritage

Elliot Langley argues that IS's systematic destruction of ancient Assyrian culture is a form of genocide

Emo: Not a dirty word

Tom Barrie explores the revival of a genre unfairly ignored and maligned

Review: Wild

Anthony Maskell finds Wild to be a journey worth taking

Review: The Doctor In Spite of Himself

Michael Roderick reviews this Molière classic

Preview: The Doctor In Spite of Himself

Hannah Dewhirst is excited by Molière's physical comedy

30 Years of John Hughes

Joseph O'Neil looks back at the seminal movies of John Hughes, which defined a generation

From Rossellini to RoboCop

Tom Barrie explores the bygone era of politically and socially provocative cinema

It’s a kid-eat-kid playground

Eve Beere is enchanted by the Machiavellian scheming on show in The Secret Lives of Four Year Olds

Where are they now: Mutya Buena

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to...

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