Culture
The rise of genre fluidity: Is this the death of genre as we know it?
My favourite genre of music: a question I’ve found becoming increasingly difficult to answer over the years, and it’s only now that I’m discovering why. Whilst we may not...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll
Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.
Self-Portrait of a Stranger: A Review of Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition, The Charcoal Heads, shows the early career of Frank Auerbach...
S1l3nce
Our reviewer won't give too much away about this Derren Brownish magic show-except that it left her amazed.
The Truth
Four stars for this Discworld production, the latest in an Oxford tradition
Renegade
The latest offering from the Oxford Revue
The Ideas Man by Shed Simove
A book by the inventor of 'Clitoris Allsorts' fails to titillate or raise titters
Raphaël Zarka – Geometry Improved
We find French 'found forms' fail fundementally
The Class
Rees Arnott-Davies finds Palme d'Or winning French drama a lesson in expert film-making
Buried Child
Sam Shepard's pretentious, flawed play gets better acting than it deserves
Confusions
Dialogue isn't the only thing that's funny about this Aykbourn play
All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare improved
How Shakespeare's admirers thought his work needed a few rewrites
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.
