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The rise of the pop girlie: Marketing mediocrity or feminism in action?  

“GIRLS INVENTED PUNK ROCK, NOT ENGLAND”: so reads the iconic green T-shirt of Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon. The slogan stands in defiance of an unfortunate truth in the music industry: femininity and credibility often exist in contention with one another.
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World music after ‘world music’

On the face of it, the term ‘world music’ is perhaps one of the...
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NAZA: The most important film of the year

The filmmakers of NAZA clearly know that beyond physical distance, emotional distance is what allows the violence in Gaza to continue, and shows us just how easy it is to ignore what is going on right under our noses.
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In conversation with John Kennedy, “one of the most trusted voices in music”

In a media landscape often dominated by gossip, rumours, and sometimes pure hate, it’s undeniably refreshing to listen to John, a man who never lost sight of what really matters.
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Review: Hercules

Luke Barratt enjoys Hollywood's latest quasi-classical offering

Review: Hide Your Smiling Faces

This tale of childhood and mortality tugs at the heart strings to hauntingly poetic effect

Review: Phox — Phox

Stephen Bradshaw reviews the sun-filled melting pot that is Phox's debut album

The Smiths: Then and Now

30 years on, Cherwell examines the legacy of The Smiths' self-titled album

Review: Morrissey — World Peace is None of Your Business

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews Morrisey’s new album.

Review: Laurence Clark: Moments of Instant Regret

Rose Sykes find this Edinburgh Preview hilariously close to the bone

Cheltenham Music Festival: A page turner’s view

Joseph Fell takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Cheltenham Music Festival.

Review: Grand Central

Rebecca Zlotowski's film about forbidden love treads beyond just illicit romance and tackles identity, appearance and loyalty

Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Robots, sparks and cars all combine to create an incomparably lazy monstrosity

Review: Sex Tape

Lacking severely in humour, Sex Tape is left to fester in its own awkward and unfunny squalor

A day on the set of a student film: Waterbird/Catkins

We spent the day with the crew of two student films being shot in Oxford, to see what the best of the amateur film scene has to offer

Interview: Regis Philbin

Cody Gifford sits down with Regis Philbin.

Review: Njal’s Saga

Andrew McLean finds Marquez in Medieval Iceland

OOTB charity single gets Shakira seal of approval

Out of the Blue’s charity single, ‘Hips Don’t Lie,’ plugged by Shakira

Review: Monty Python Live (mostly)

Are they the messiahs, or just very naughty boys? The verdict is in.

Review: Skylight

Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy star in this timely revival of David Hare's 1995 work

Review: Marina Abramović, 512 Hours

Naomi Polonsky experiences performance art history in the making

Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Though the simian performances ultimately carry the title, Planet of the Apes is ironically let down by its lacklustre and comparatively bland human characters

Review: Great Britain

Freya Judd finds Richard Bean's satire to be funny but flawed

Review: The Alchemist

Luke Barratt is impressed with this OUDS production of a Ben Jonson classic
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