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Ollie Johnson

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Review — Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Ollie Johnson sheds light on the burdens and expectations placed upon the latest film in the Star Wars franchise

Profile: Alan Rusbridger

Ollie Johnson talks life after the Guardian with ex-editor Alan Rusbridger

Letterman: The last of his kind

Ollie Johnson celebrates David Letterman's enduring talk-show legacy

Professor Louise Richardson nominated as new Vice-Chancellor

Ex-principal of St. Andrews would become first female Vice-Chancellor of the University

Panic at the disco: a night of trauma and regret

Ollie Johnson recounts how an ordinary Wednesday became a nightmare

Milestones: landmark gay moments on TV

Cherwell picks out key moments in cultural history. This week, Ollie Johnson charts some of the landmark gay moments in TV

Milestones: Apocalypse Now

Ollie Johnson looks at nature's role in the making of Apocalypse Now

Anti-celebrity rules OK. Long live Baldwin.

Ollie Johnson examines the hypocrisy of the famous rejecting fame

Frankenstein, Godzilla and now Norman Foster

Ollie Johnson decries the monstrous state of our modern city skylines

Milestones: The Beer Widget

Ollie Johnson examines the beer widget, the solution to a most profound problem (regarding the issue of effectively canning lesser-carbonated hops-based drinks)

Review: The Theory of Everything

Ollie Johnson found that the lacking script left the stunning performances out to dry

The good, the bad and the BBFC

Ollie Johnson looks at the forgotten role of the BBFC in modern cinema

The sweet sounds of cinema

Ollie Johnson takes a look at what makes a brilliant soundtrack

Top Gear: Total War

Ollie Johnson examines the routes of the Top Gear Empire's success

Review: The Riot Club

The Riot Club's potential only leaves the actual end product feeling all the more lukewarm and confused

What film/TV programme is your college?

If you've ever wondered where your college would fit into the world of the big or small screen, look no further.

Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Robots, sparks and cars all combine to create an incomparably lazy monstrosity

A day on the set of a student film: Waterbird/Catkins

We spent the day with the crew of two student films being shot in Oxford, to see what the best of the amateur film scene has to offer

Where have all the monsters gone?

Ollie Johnson tells us why less is more when it comes to monster movies

The Magnificence of Miyazaki

Ollie Johnson praises the genius of the master of Japanese animation
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