Wednesday 12th November 2025

Culture

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) a few weeks ago, I found myself asking a rather disturbing question: “I wonder what people on Letterboxd are...

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they...

On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

To rehearse and perform an entire student production before the second week of Michaelmas...

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s 

Lovers mismatched, siblings detached, and plans of trickery hatched: it is the time of...

The Hothouse – Actor’s Blog, Week 2

Hothouse lead Matt Gavan talks about his experience of Pinter and the Playhouse

Review: The Artist

Benjamin McEvoy paints us a picture of Michel Hazanavicius’ celebrated silent film

Review: Gonjasufi – MU.ZZ.LE

Adam Lebovits sings praises for the new Gonjasufi mini-LP

Review: The Maccabees – Given To The Wild

Sarah Poulten feels that the new Maccabees album is too manicured

A Bluffers’ Guide to: New Wave

Natasha Frost explores the finer points of the New Wave

Dancing to the beat of her own drum

Nicola Roberts to Natasha Frost talks about tribal patterns, head-fucks and the importance of being loose

‘More stars than there are in heaven!’

Amy Rollason relives Hollywood's Golden Age in the second installment of our Decades in Film feature: the 30s

Preview: Celebration

Joshua Philips is delighted by what he calls a 'fitting introduction to Pinter for anyone who has not yet seen any of his works'

First Night: Sleeping Beauty

Claire Harrill is both perplexed and amused by a performance of the the ballet Sleeping Beauty at the New Theatre

Wrap up for Oxford’s Pinter Winter

Eleanor Wade examines the Pinter revival in student drama and beyond

Small screen, silver screen, or something in-between?

Is TV still Film's irritating younger brother, or has it finally grown up?

Stafford-Clark makes a mark

Ianthe Roach interviews Max Stafford-Clark about his latest production

Nouveau-ver to Sander’s

Jack Powell visits Oxford's new exhibition of Art Nouveau lithographs

Down and Out in Literary Paris

Christy Edwall goes to Paris in search of books, bohemians, and the legendary George Whitman

Masters at Work

Cherwell speaks to Kunal Basu, business academic and historical novelist

The Rising Star of David

David Mitchell talks to Jessica Campbell about Peep Show, the long road to success, and the tensions between acting and comedy

Le Fort des Têtes, Briançon

Richard Nias' take on an abandoned fort in Briancon.

Review: King Charles, Jericho Tavern

Natasha Frost spends a cosy evening in at the Jericho Tavern

First Night: Giselle

Finola Austin is transported by the first of three performances by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia at the New Theatre

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