Tom Barrie, Author at Cherwell

Preview: Catz Arts Festival

Tom Barrie looks ahead to a week of arts events at St Catherine's

Emo: Not a dirty word

Tom Barrie explores the revival of a genre unfairly ignored and maligned

Catz students chase intruder from college

Second-years at St Catherine's found an unidentified man in their staircase and chased him from the scene, retrieving their valuables

From Rossellini to RoboCop

Tom Barrie explores the bygone era of politically and socially provocative cinema

Milestones: Football and Music

Tom Barrie examines the fruitful marriage of football and music

Interview: Paul Mayhew-Archer

Tom Barrie talks to the Vicar of Dibley co-creator about sexism in the TV industry, Richard Curtis and self-immolation

Broadchurch: against a sea of troubles

Tom Barrie reflects on the second wave of drama to hit Broadchurch

Review: American Sniper

Clint Eastwood's latest film is little more than an exercise in wartime propaganda, and it grates

2014: the year in film

An overview of the highs and lows of cinema in 2014

Hip-hop rivalry: alive and well at 20

Tom Barrie looks at the history of hip-hop feuding, and its effect of keeping the genre fresh

Review: OBA Short Film Screening

Tom Barrie finds a wonderful range of student-made films showcased at OBA's annual screening.

Preview: OBA Short Film Screening

With the OBA's short film screening taking place on Sunday, Tom Barrie sat down with co-president Alex Darby and talked Oxford film past, present and future

Dream girls don’t exist

Tom Barrie looks at a character type that has come to haunt rom-coms

Q&A with Joanna Hogg

Tom Barrie was impressed with filmmaker Joanna Hogg's eloquence in OBA's Q&A at Oriel College

Preview: Hacked Off Films presents: Sin City

Tom Barrie talks to Hacked Off Films co-founder Edd Elliott about Hacked Off's upcoming immersive screening of Robert Rodriguez's Sin City.

Review: Gone Girl

Tom Barrie finds David Fincher's latest film as hard-hitting as ever

Review: A Most Wanted Man

Tom Barrie ruminates on the final work of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman

Better than Spielberg? Non-directors who could be great

Tom Barrie takes a hypothetical look at the best directors yet to actually make a movie

Review: Reading Festival 2014

Tom Barrie pretends to be sixteen again and reviews the highs and lows of this year's Reading Festival.

Review: Boyhood

Richard Linklater's most ambitious project to date is a masterful landmark in the history of cinema, writes Tom Barrie

In defence of the History Admissions Test

Exclusive: Romesh Ranganathan, Brian Cox, Suella Braverman, and Ron...

It’s time for a new view on college disparities

Inside Google’s Fight Against Spammy AI Content

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