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Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’

I walked into the Wyndham Theatre’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill half-expecting a night at the London Theatre like any other. Beer in hand,...

Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz

Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was...

The Christ Church Picture Gallery: Review

The Christ Church Picture Gallery has free entry for Oxford students. It offers a chance to view one of the most impressive college art collections, with pieces spanning the 14th to 18th centuries

Men used to go to war – now they DJ

Why are so many people becoming DJs? This recent obsession has taken the world...

Matchstick Cats

Mark and Trev were surrounded on the bed of the truck by old wooden...

The Recruiting Officer

This eighteenth-century play is entertaining, but the depth of characterisation got lost in the space of the Oxford Playhouse

A Clockwork Orange

Good acting in the central role can't redeem a confused adaption of Anthony Burgess's novel

Napoleon, complex?

Michael Docherty find The Shadow of Enlightenment's exciting style cannot mask its dull substance.

Viva Glasvegas!

Joseph Weir heads to the O2 Academy to talk to Glasvegas at this year's NME Tour

See no evil, hear no evil

Three Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's most recent cinematic venture, is imbued with a mesmeric brilliance from start to finish.

American prospects?

Mark Greif, co-editor of cutting-edge literary journal n+1, talks about diverging intellectual spheres and the role of the intellectual in today's society

Anyone for T?

William Kelleher talks to Toddla T at Fuse Night

4.48 Psychosis

An Expressionist take on Sarah Kane's last play misses the point

Serving It Up

Sarah Nerger was impressed by a performance of a student-written play

Taking Control

Cherwell examines the role of the director

Don Carlos

We weigh in on the upcoming adaptation of the Friedrich von Schiller classic

Liberal Facism

Jonah Goldberg's new book Liberal Facism sounds like it ought to be an interesting, though not entirely revolutionary, proposition

Odds and Sods and Death and Dogs

Paul Freestone's tender and humorous photographs find beauty in the mundane and subtly blur the boundaries between the human and the natural

Doubt

John Patrick Shanley's film adaptation of Doubt arguably equals, and quite possibly surpasses, the play upon which it is based

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