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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the Caribbean, this year Black History Month is celebrated uniquely in Oxford. The inaugural exhibition at...

“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...

‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two: Complex and compelling

Reality TV series The Traitors has returned with its celebrity version and has topped viewing charts for a second time. People are hooked on the show where logical reasoning and random chance are simultaneously at play, in a game full of drama, tension, and cliffhangers.

Oxford’s art scene: A picture still being painted

Who gets to make art, who gets to see it, and whose art history...

Interview: Armie Hammer

The Winklevoss twin talks fatherhood, exorcisms and Tom Cruise with Cody Gifford

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

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