Thursday, May 22, 2025

Culture

September 5: Journalism drama doesn’t question the facts enough

Set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 tracks the ABC Sports crew’s coverage of the Israeli athlete hostage crisis in the Olympic Village: the first terror...

Periodisation and the problem of now

Periodisation is the act of dividing literature into eras like Romanticism, Modernism, or Postmodernism...

Review: Death of a Salesman – ‘The Inside of His Head’

To review Tiptoe Productions’ staging of Death of a Salesman, I must first contextualise...

Oxford’s summer scene: The season of open-air performances

Trinity term at Oxford University is defined by wisteria, wild swimming, and warmth. Students...

Review: Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Barrie is impressed by Tom Cruise's new action-adventure escapade

The cinema of Kelly Reichardt

Matthew Main on the champion of American Indie Cinema

The absence of light: American TV in its post-Golden Age

Sophia Lambton looks at how American television is taking itself too seriously at the expense of its sense of humour

Where are they now: Steps

It was a feeble attempt at a Christmas comeback that put the last nail in the coffin for this 00s pop band

Review: Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain

Thomas Barrie reviews the latest release by folk artist Conor Oberst

Review: The Roots – …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin

The 16th Century meets 50s doowop in The Roots latest release

Review: Seahawks – Paradise Freaks

Rushabh Haria is a fan of this 'psychedelic yacht rock'

Review: The Two Faces of January

Hussein Amini’s directorial debut is a captivatingly magnetic thriller, with three brilliantly engaging lead performances

Interview: Wolf Alice

Helen Thomas talks to Wolf Alice about their upcoming EP, and their evolving sound

A Journey to the Heart of Darkness

Arizona, Nevada, California & Utah, USA

Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Exciting and with a stellar cast, the newest X-Men is only let down by its contrived ending

Where have all the monsters gone?

Ollie Johnson tells us why less is more when it comes to monster movies

Milestones: Isaac Levitan

Naomi Polonsky examines the influential Russian landscape artist

Top 3… Climbs

Luke Barratt rounds up the greatest ascents in culture

Green and pleasant lands

Anna Zanetti looks at changing artistic attitudes to landscape

Review: Vico

Naomi Polonsky is entertained and disturbed by this student-written play about insanity

Review: Surprise

Kurien Parel feels this play has a surprising moral message

Review: A History of Falling Things

George Grylls feels that the ending lets down this engaging production

Review: Man of Mode

Libby Wicks feels this production has its highs and lows

Review: Timon of Athens

Zoe Slater ponders immersive theatre in this production at Magdalen

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