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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Review: Our Fathers

Lily McIlwain is moved by theatre group Babakas' thoughtful exploration of fatherhood

Review: Pride

Kristin Grogan finds solidarity without sentimentality in Pride, as miners and LGBT activists are thrown together in Thatcher's Britain.

Milestones: George Harrison after the Beatles

Joel Nelson tells us about George Harrison's post-Beatles escape

Mortality: what will survive of us is art

Clare Saxby discusses how the death of an artist has an inevitable effect on the reception of their work

Review: Fat Pig

Fergus Morgan is less than impressed by Neil Labute's attempted exploration of society's prejudice towards unusual relationships

Preview: Our Country’s Good

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull gives us a sneak preview of Timberlake Wertenbaker's modern classic, which arrives at Keble's O'Reilly Theatre in 3rd Week

Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Damien Shannon trawls through the sewage and finds Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wanting

Review: The Tate Modern Displays

Andrew McLean finds the curation of these exhibits confusing

The sweet sounds of cinema

Ollie Johnson takes a look at what makes a brilliant soundtrack

Loading the Canon: John Major: The Autobiography

Cherwell calls for new kids on the literary block

Twelve classic books every fresher should have read

Our Furious Contributors provide the definitive guide to impressing phony fresher friends at the pub

Preview: Bouncers

Fergus Morgan gets a sneak preview of John Godber's energetic comedy before its 3rd Week run at the BT Studio

Interview: Babakas

Fergus Morgan meets Mike Tweddle and Juan Ayala to discuss theatre company Babakas' Our Fathers, which arrives at the North Wall on Saturday October 25th