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 -

Monumental Art: Francisco Goya

Phyllis Stein discusses the Spanish Romantic Painter

Professor of Poetry: Time for a Change?

Lily McIlwain on how the current election has cast light on the state of poetry in Oxford and beyond

Preview: Schola Cantorum’s – One Foot in Eden

George Dennis recommends a trip to this Oxford choir's upcoming concert

Top 5 Songs to listen to while playing croquet

Rachael Griffith crafts your ideal croquet soundtrack

Live Review: Years & Years

Sam Joyce is stuck on the fence after their performance at the O2

Review: Jason Derulo – Everything is 4

Rachael Griffith is not surprised by the mediocrity of Derulo's new album

Review: DJ Antoine – I Woke Up Like This

George Dennis couldn't be happier with the new single from the Swiss DJ

In Defence of: Celebrity

Anthony Maskell finds Woody Allen's Celebrity to be a startlingly poignant satire

Letterman: The last of his kind

Ollie Johnson celebrates David Letterman's enduring talk-show legacy

The New old Greek Tragedies

Henner Petin makes a plea for the fantastic David Raeburn

Review: Elephants

Omar Hameed was enthralled by this escapist piece of original writing

Preview: Play and That Time

Patrick Oisin Mulholland is blown away by Beckett

Review: Girlhood

A powerfully intimate coming-of-age film. (And nothing to do with Boyhood)

Experimental Theatre Club

Words Words Words

Preview: Twelfth Night

An intriguing reinterpretation of a Shakespeare classic

Preview: Yesterday

Mark Barclay sees potential greatness for this piece of new writing

In Defence Of: Spring Breakers

Tom Barrie defends Selena Gomez and her murderous streak

Cinema: dead as a dodo?

Sam Joyce on why cinema is in a self-made terminal decline

Review: Mad Max

Toby Scadding enjoys vehicular carnage in this franchise revamp

Top 5 Songs to piss off a finalist

Rachael Griffith presents you with some truly inflammatory songs

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