Tuesday 2nd June 2026

Culture

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.

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.

Siskin

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

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.

Review: Through the leaves

BT late slot, Tuesday - Saturday 4th Week

Review: Don Juan in Soho

OFS, Tuesday- Saturday 4th Week

To shout or not to shout?

Cherwell asks (or rather rants about) the inevitable question...

The World’s A Stage: Buenos Aires

This week Cherwell finds poverty a spur to dramatic innovation in Argentina

Snow Patrol: A Hundred Million Suns

Snow Patrol's new album is a good effort, but a lot could have been done better...

Belle and Sebastian: The BBC Sessions

Can Belle and Sebastian crack the curse of the live album?

Genre Confused: Dubstep

This week, we look at the dubstep phenomenon

A success 700 years in the making

Joseph Weir gets folked up with the uniquely brilliant Bellowhead

Brolin’s Bush Stone’s Throw From Truth

We review Oliver Stone's new biopic

Picture Politics

Do politics have a place in the cinema?

Easy Virtue

We review the swinging new Noel Coward adaptation.

Perfect Vision

We get a good look at Oxford's telescope exhibition

All Stiles, no substance

Jenny Vass reviews Kieran Stiles' new exhibition.

Poetry in Motion

Andrew Motion's 'Ways of Life'

Book Review: Winter In Madrid

CJ Sansom, Pan Books, £7.99

Book Review: Musicophilia

Oliver Sacks, Picador, £8.99

Blasphemy: On The Road

This week, Cherwell gets angry about the Jack Kerouac 'classic'

The World’s A Stage: Cairo

Cherwell witnesses some unusual interpretations of Shakespeare...

Review: Endgame

Keble O'Reilley, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

Review: Richard III

OFS Studio, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

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