Columns Archive
Behind the Screens: the thankless job of editing
CW: Mentions of suicide
In a previous Cherwell column, I wrote that cinematographers manipulate an audiences’ viewpoint. If that is the case, then editors are the Thanos to the cinematographer’s...
Will Neill’s Real Deal: The Decline and Fall of Boris Johnson
This has been a bizarre week for Boris Johnson. I appreciate that this is...
Auntythetical: The pressure of the dreaming spires
Everything that I thought made me worthy of being here, that I fought to read and learn alongside my studies, feels insignificant
Auntythetical: Being stuck in the middle
The ostracism I felt had forced me to choose between my identity and the chance to have friends.
Behind the Screens: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Referencing in Film
Referencing in Hollywood is a bit like a currency at the moment; writers can...
The Undercurrent: the ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ look suspiciously like the ‘Arseholes of Today’
In light of this week's political debacle, perhaps it's time to stop pretending that Oxford’s obsession with producing ‘the leaders of tomorrow’ is in any way healthy.
The Map to Happiness: Sweden and ‘Lagom’
Our version of wild swimming was more Butlins than Bear Grylls, but that was what made it lagom. It was enough but not too much. A perfect balance.
WATCH3WORDS: Black Bear – Funny.Stifling.Psychodrama.
'Claustrophobic, erratic, and prickly all at once, Black Bear is an experiment in film which entangles its audience deep in its intellectual web.'
“Well-behaved women seldom make history”: Hills, Poetry and Protest
At Joe Biden’s inauguration I, along with the rest of the world, watched Amanda Gorman reignite a marriage of unparalleled power: poetry and politics....
Cher-ity Corner: KEEN Oxford
"One of the most important lessons I have learnt, as I imagine many others have too from this pandemic, is the value of offering up our time to help others"
The Undercurrent: Fun – a vital ingredient for optimising your performance?
Only Oxford could turn the delicate process of divulging a mental health issue into a sick version of Britain’s Got Talent that’s all sob-story and no singing
“Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”: Freedom Fighting, Queen Jezebel and India
Christina Rossetti’s poetry is often coloured with feminist insights, as she handles conditions ranging from that of the unmarried Victorian women to so-called ‘fallen...
WATCH3WORDS: Palm Springs – Exuberant.Poolside.Mayhem.
'By taking the well-known Groundhog Day storyline and injecting it with a healthy dose of sun, fun, and drug-fuelled nihilism, Palm Springs makes one of the dullest formats in the book suddenly enjoyable.'
The Map to Happiness: Hilary Term and The Atlas of Happiness
I realised I slipped slowly into equating “productivity and achievement” with “happiness”, but in actual fact, there was so much more to it than that.
Out of the Frame: Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos
As long as humanity has existed, art has followed in its wake. Whether to tell a story, send a political message, decorate an environment...
