Tuesday 11th 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...

Review: Che (Part 1)

the revolution will not be televised

Theatre isn’t supposed to be grey

So why do so many professional performances of classic plays look exactly the same?

Review: Gonzo

Fear and Loathing in the Cinema

Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Australia

Luhrmann's visual treat is no Dr. Zhivago

Review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex

Uri Edel's latest offering surpasses all expectations

Book Review: Oxford Poetry ’08

As the 99th birthday of Oxford Poetry approaches, Cherwell takes a belated look at this year's offering.

Go West

A new wave of European films grapples with immigration

Golden Globe Nominations

Brits on top in this years Golden Globe Nominations

The Pillowman First Night Review

The Pillowman proves to be a thought-provoking evening

The Films of 2008

What rocked the box office this year?

Lost kids and exploding dogs

Two blockbusters are heading to cinemas this week. We take a look...

The Pillowman Preview

Wilner's direction of The Pillowman both distresses and impresses

Chain Reaction: Spinal Tap

How the original rockumentary changed music

The World’s A Stage: Japan

Cherwell investigates the arts of Noh and Kabuki

Oxford Shakespeare reaches new heights…

A second look at this week’s production of Romeo and Juliet

Radical harmony

Political radicalism - still thriving in the music industry.

A Special Boy: Review

The play promises to entertain - but does it live up to expectations?

The Winter’s Tale

Stage review of a seasonal Shakespeare classic.

Sweeney Todd

A classic piece of drama gets the Oxford treatment. Is it a clean cut or a close shave?

Neighbourhood Watch: Crime doesn’t pay

When stage comedy goes wrong.

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