Friday 2nd January 2026

Culture

‘The political is also political’: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Minority Rule’

Universities have often been seen as bastions of radicalism. Forgetting the fact that higher educational institutions, particularly ancient and elite ones in the Anglophone world, are governed by centuries...

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s...

‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025

When I wandered into Tingewick Hall on a cold, dark evening in seventh week,...

A comical approach to a classic text: ‘Hedda Gabler’ reviewed

Tiptoe Productions’ Hedda Gabler, co-directed by Ollie Gillam and Gilon Fox, delivered a strong...

Review: Best Coast

Is Matt crazy for new Californian outfit Best Coast? Well, almost.

It’s OK To Cry In Films

Why shedding a tear in the cinema can only be a good thing.

Review: The Master and Margarita

Review of The Master and Margarita, now playing at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Wolfgang Tillmans at the Serpentine Gallery

Chris de Beneducci reviews a retrospective of the controversial German photographer

The Tarantino Conundrum

Ben Kirby examines what happens when good directors go bad.

Top 5: Open Air Cinema Events

The best of this Summer's outdoor cinema venues

Review: Dawkins debunked

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson tries her hand at philosophy

Review: The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Ben Kirby reviews the Old Vic's revival of Neil Simon's 1971 play starring Jeff Goldblum

Behind the Fringe: The Master and Margarita

A behind the scenes interview with the creative minds behind the new adaptation of Bulgakov's novel

Reviews: Toy Story 3

Two reviewers reach the same conclusion: it's a beautiful trip back to childhood joys.

Review for OUDS Japan Tour "Taming of the Shrew"

A review of the opening of "The Taming of the Shrew" in Magdalen Gardens

Review: Splice

Some Freudian creepiness can't save this dull horror from mediocrity

Feature: Newman College, Oxford

Oliver Moody reviews the timely new biography a man who stands a little bit nearer the angels than most of us

Kings of Leon at Hyde Park

The Nashville boys play their biggest sell-out show to date

Said the Playwright to the Bishop

Review of Drew Pautz's new play at the National Theatre and its relevance for Oxford drama

The composer who painted music

Alex Dudok de Wit traces the career of Olivier Messiaen, maverick composer and bird-lover

Film4 Does DiCaprio

Film4 airs the four films that made DiCaprio an icon

Review: Inception

A furiously imaginative, action-packed and cerebral masterpiece.

Online Review: Lebanon

Jack Binysh gives his verdict on the Golden Lion winning Lebanon

Italian Renaissance Drawings @ The British Museum

Jane-Marie Saldanha reviews one of the biggest exhibitions of the year

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