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Joel Casey

Review: Nightcrawler

Joel Casey is impressed with a moody Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler

First year exhibition at the Ruskin

Cherwell reports on the Ruskin School of Art's first year exhibition, asking artists and viewers about the artwork

Oxford University Shakespeare Festival

Cherwell speaks to the director of the Oxford University Shakespeare Festival, and is given access to a rehearsal of A Comedy of Errors, one of the featured plays

Interview: Director of ‘The History Boys’

Cherwell interviews James Lorenz, who is directing a student production of 'The History Boys', now showing at The Oxford Playhouse

Profile: Ricky Gervais

Joel Casey talks activism, atheism, and America with RIcky Gervais

Review: Nebraska

Alexander Payne's latest feature is saddening, hilarious and heart-warming - largely due to Bruce Dern's compelling performance

Review: I’m So Excited

Despite some funny lines, Joel Casey finds the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar substandard