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Monday 10th November 2025
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Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!
Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they are elitist and out of touch, filled with arrogant critics watching the most obscure of...
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I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons)...
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Online Review: It’s Complicated
It's Complicated? Not really
Drama Briefing
All the thespy ins and outs this week
Off, you lendings
Looking ahead to 'Equus', our Stage Editor takes a voyeuristic peek at onstage nudity
What you’ve been missing: Polish art
As well as gold suits and spaceships, what else has the former Communist state to offer?
Review: A Children’s Book
Harry Potter would be infinitely preferable to this Booker-Prize nominee
Fool’s Gold
Our reviewer regrets dressing up for this interactive review
Guilty Pleasures
Films or genres we know we shouldn't like, but do. This week, Strictly Ballroom
Review: Brothers
Solid, but in the end unremarkable
Pick of the Week
Our pick of the latest releases. This week: Heartland by Owen Pallet
Review ‘End Times’ by Eels
A divorce made in heaven.
Review: ‘The Betrayed’ by Lost Prophets
Not quite dark or atmospheric enough
The Great Coll(abhor)ations
Our music editor examines the good, the bad and the unexpected
Top 10: Drama Freshers
Cherwell picks out ten leading lights among this year's drama freshers
Book Sucker Stage Magic
The novel's fans will love this adaptation of The Magic Toyshop, and so will you, says Tim Newey
Fifty years of Hurt
Nick Pierce interviews screen legend, John Hurt.
Review: Up in the Air
George Clooney et al achieve lift-off
Week 1: Welcome to our new Photo Blog!
Flick through this week's selection of the best photography from around and about Oxford.
Fyfe Dangerfield – Fly Yellow Moon
The Guillemots' frontman goes solo
Delphic – Acolyte
An impressive genre-fusing debut from the Mancunians
Vampire Weekend – Contra
More of the same from the Brooklyn four-piece
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