Monday 16th 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.

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.

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.

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.

Video and Theatre

Mark Barclay explores the possibility of a symbiosis of video and theatre - or an invasion of one by the other

Tramlines 2015: On the unbeat‘n’tracks

From headliners to sideliners - a review of Sheffield's 7th Urban Festival run

Drake’s ghostwriter: does it really matter?

Doubt over the authorship of Drake's lyrics are a small price to pay for more material from the artist, writes Tom Barrie

Review: Tame Impala – Currents

Catherine Kelly dives into Tame Impala's Currents.

Review: Man and Superman

Comedy and philosophy at the National Theatre

Review: Ratatat – Magnifique

Tom Waterhouse reviews Ratatat's latest album, and is left wanting.

Review: Around The World in 80 Days

Harrison Edmonds is charmed by the OUDS national tour production

The Art of the 140 Character Breakdown

Sam Joyce went down the rabbit hole of 'Existential Twitter,' and needs to give his therapist a call

Review: Still The Water

Naomi Kawase's latest meditative, mystical, edifying romance proves a bewitching proposition

Teenage flicks right through the night

Marc Barclay questions how exactly adolescent audiences are keeping cinemas open in the dark days of piracy and Netflix

Review: Years and Years – Communion

Sam Joyce is inebriated but not quite intoxicated on Years and Years' debut

Glastonbury 2015. The Verdict

I struck gold in the frantic game of ‘mash-the-refresh-button’ on October 5th last year. Seeing as 135,000 tickets sold out in just 25 minutes, I can’t help feeling Apollo was looking down kindly on me that day. My prize: a ticket to Glastonbury festival.

Why I’ve never been to a festival…

Reindeer burgers in the rain? Rachael Griffith knows where she'd rather be

Review: Jurassic World

Anthony Maskell finds Jurassic World an adrenaline-pumping thrill ride, but it doesn't quite live up to the original

Game of Thrones cares more about boners than storytelling

Sam Joyce would rather Game of Thrones dial back on the exploitative nudity, thank you very much

Review: Force Majeure

Sam Joyce gets swept up in the terrifying rhythms of this Swedish dark family comedy

Review: Oxford Revue

This is not intentionally meta

Review: His Dark Materials, Part 2

Hannah Congdon delights in the innovating staging of this fantastical production

Review: Play and That Time

Evie Ioaniddi is impressed by this accomplished rendering of difficult material

The First Lesbian Fictions

Emily Dixon discusses the works of Radclyffe Hall

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