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OUFF’s ‘The Oxford Tales’: Celebrating student filmmaking at Oxford

It’s no secret that Oxford has long been an idealised location for film sets; official-looking SUVs with blacked-out windows and attendants in high vis parading up and down Catte Street and around the Rad Cam are a not-unfamiliar sight.

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Behind the red curtain: ‘Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse’ reviewed

Leo Jones reviews Crazy Child Productions' performance of 'Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse', the first English staging of the play.

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Siskin

Near the riverside, a girl with walnut hair sat with her back to the...

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Oxford on-screen: Historical atmosphere and fantasy worlds

Ideally, we should strike a balance; an awareness of the reality of life at Oxford can co-exist with an appreciation of its grand architecture and historical atmosphere.

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Review: Odd Blood by Yeasayer

Album of the decade (so far).

Interview: Dev Heynes

The Lightspeed Champion talks Test Icicles with Cherwell

First Night Review: Equus

A strong, creepy performance, and marks to the audience too

Performance Review: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

Every minute of this one and a half hour play was worth watching

First night review: Rhinoceros

Will you join the herd? asks Robert Holtom

Review: Youth in Revolt

Not your average teen movie

Emma Johnson and Pascal Rogé

Our new classical music reviewer attends an impressive concert at the Sheldonian Theatre, 30th January

Heavenly Features

Nicolas Pierce evaluates cinema's after-death experiences

Online review: A Prophet

Beau Woodbury says the future's uncertain for this acclaimed drama

Cherwell Photo Blog – Week 3!

Yet more snaps and shots from around Oxford...

Art, not without ambition

Macbeth has much to commend and much to condemn, says Andrew McCormack

Online review: Edge of Darkness

Edge of your seat stuff

What you’ve been missing

Is it indulgent to review an author in this column? Not when it's Orhan Pamuk

Review: Romance is Boring

Cherwell's most musically minded Ex-Editor reviews the latest from Los Campesinos!

Review: Realism by The Magnetic Fields

Idiosyncratic but interesting

15 years since…

We take a look at Leftism by Leftfield

Something to watch

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me impressed Vanessa Lehner

A Humorous Rhinoceros

Brave choices and absurdist comedy make this production entertaining as well as profound, says Alex du Sautoy

First night: The Magic Toyshop

Artful, exciting and ambitious. Not bad at all

Burns Night – a retrospective

A selection of photos from Burns Night festivities at Balliol.

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