Sunday 15th 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.

Milestones: The Beer Widget

Ollie Johnson examines the beer widget, the solution to a most profound problem (regarding the issue of effectively canning lesser-carbonated hops-based drinks)

"Washing the dust of daily life off our souls"

Fergus Morgan examines the difficulties endemic in attempting to portray genius

Shakespeare on Trial

Colette Lewis interrogates the implications of this collision between stage and courtroom

Preview: West Side Story

Fay Watson checks out Byzantium Productions' upcoming show

Review: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Ben Cooke explores Hilary Mantel's ‘Maggiephobia’ in her latest collection of short stories

Loading the Canon: Gil-Scott Heron

Lily McIlwain calls for the addition of a new writer to the literary establishment

Jonathan Yeo: the controversial yet charming artist

Emma Irving discusses celebrities and surgery with Britain’s leading portrait painter

Review: Foxcatcher

Anthony Maskell witnesses performances of depth and gravitas in Bennett Miller's latest film, Foxcatcher

Review: Birdman

Katharine Stocker enjoys a trimphant - if self-conscious - return from Michael Keaton

Review: The Theory of Everything

Ollie Johnson found that the lacking script left the stunning performances out to dry

Review: the latest exhibition of Egon Schiele

Mark Barclay finds that the work of Schiele has lost none of its shock factor in “Schiele: The Radical Nude”

Review: The Interview

Following the controversy miring The Interview's release, Jennie Han finds Seth Rogen's latest childish and inane

Review: An Evening with The Cure

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews an evening spent watching The Cure at London's Hammersmith Apollo, complete with lipstick, dry ice and spinning tops galore.

Hip-hop rivalry: alive and well at 20

Tom Barrie looks at the history of hip-hop feuding, and its effect of keeping the genre fresh

"Music from another planet": the allure of ‘ugly’ music

With the dawn of a new year in music, Henry Bruce-Jones reflects on 2014's most 'ugly', deviant offerings

The Ten Best Oxford Shows of 2014

We take a look back at the theatrical high points of the past year

The power of the book

In light of the proposed prison book ban being overturned, Rose Sykes examines the redemptive power ascribed to literature and its importance in the prison system

Hilary Term at the New and Playhouse Theatres

Stage takes a quick look into what is on at the New and Playhouse Theatres next term

Review: Sam Smith – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Susan Yu reviews Sam Smith's latest cover of a longstanding Christmas classic

Review: Doctor Who Christmas Special 2014

Alex Stronell is impressed by this year’s Christmas adventure with the Doctor

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