Wednesday 22nd October 2025

Culture

Grappling with ‘grief that’s half formed’: Your Funeral

“Meeting up with a partner so soon after a breakup is an awkward time - and she’s dying.” Your Funeral is the debut play of new company Pharaoh Productions. It...

“NOR GLOM OF NIT?”: ‘Going Postal’ reviewed

“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR...

On Gravel and Quads: Woolf’s Oxbridge in ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important...

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It has been so long since last I felt  your fingertips tracing my pages, cascading shivers...

Blessed with the Force

Olivia Arigho Stiles considers the Oxford music scene with hometown band Fixers

Ordered Chaos: Review of Moulène at Modern Art Oxford

W.J. Humphries looks at the latest exhibition of Jean-Luc Moulène at Modern Art Oxford

Zoom in on… new talent

Sophie Baggott talks to up-and-coming videographer and photographer Henry Bird about breaking into the business

Interview: The King’s Singers

Flying High: Katy Wright talks to the King's Singers after their performance at the Union.

Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Joseph Newell is underwhelmed by this Sundance darling

Review: Miss Julie

Anna-Maria Ssemuyaba is disappointed by a production that fails to generate any emotion

Review: A Tender Thing

Hyunjip Kim is disappointed by this adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story

Review: Isobel

Ani Kodzhabasheva is haunted by this literary game turned deadly serious

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Review: On the Road

Carmella Crinnion is impressed by this stylish adaptation of Kerouac's classic

Series Review: The Great British Bake-Off

Anthony Collins on GBBO's innuendo-riven appeal

What to watch this Autumn

Cherwell Film & TV explores the good, the bad and the just plain ugly of the Autumn film and TV lineup

Review: Frankenweenie

Benedict Tate is impressed with this slice of gothic animation

Review: Ruby Sparks

Georgina Pollard finds funny truths amidst the mess of this new film

Summer Daze

Anna Leszkiewicz documents the lazy days of summer on faded film

Zoom in on… the digital age

Amy Rollason and Sophie Baggott talk to photographer Nigel Francis about photogenic Oxford and the perks of technology

Casual Vacancy Review

(Hog)warts and all: An underwhelming attempt at a novel for grown-ups

From the heart or not at all

Jeanette Winterson tells Viccy Ibbett about her time at St Catz, feminism, and what's next

Review: Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind

Matt Robinson is in awe of the kings of hardcore

Review: The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth

Jake Hills finds poetry in the darkness of The Mountain Goats

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