Saturday 7th June 2025

Culture

Duplicity, infidelity and loyalty in ‘Crocodile Tears’

“An Italian summer romance that goes wrong” – this is how Crocodile Tears was first pitched to me by its writer, Natascha Norton, when I sat down with her...
Theatre Phoebe Davies -

Review: The Great Gatsby – ‘Indulge the extravaganza’

Sophia Eiden’s production of Simon Levy’s script of The Great Gatsby is an undoubted...
Theatre Peter Chen -

Barry Lyndon – Kubrick’s ultimate antifilm?

Barry Lyndon has always been dismissed within Kubrick’s filmography. While he is a filmmaker...
Film Ruby Tipple -

Cinema’s hidden gems: Daisies (1966)

Whilst mainstream cinema more often favours the safe and the familiar, some of the...
Film Abigail Styche -
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Review : Turn Of The Screw

Henner Petin finds himself scared by an atmospheric show

The fatal beauty of the cliché

Olivia Sung reviews Crimson Peak, Del Toro's cult classic to-be

Songs From The Screen

Tom Waterhouse on the remarkable power of cinematic music.

The Mercury Prize: "Enigmatically Diverse"

Ellen Peirson-Hagger assesses the pros and cons of the revered award

Review: City and Colour – If I Should Go Before You

Flora Henderson tells you why listening to City and Colour's latest album isn't just Killing Time.

Review: Real Lies – Real Life

Jackson Whitton lays eyes on Real Lies' Real Life

Why so serious?

The overriding trend of modern television is the decline of seriously funny US drama

All Sound and no Fury?

Lawrence Warner has mixed feelings about Justin Kurzel's Macbeth

Preview: Singin in the Rain

The eponymous downpour won't dampen Richard Birch's hopes for a great production

A Day In the Life

From essay crises to predrinks, Cherwell’s got you covered

Does the music move you, or does the music ‘move’?

Jake Downs explains the psychology of musical motion — every raver’s best friend.

Interview: Jack Savoretti

Bryony Harris chats to the folksy singer-songwriter.

Live Review: The Smyths

Andrew Dickinson reviews the cover band's recent Oxford show

Strangers: Just friends you haven’t met yet

Lonely freshers should take solace in the films of Coppola and Linklater

Milestones: Paris

This week, Fintan Calpin discusses Klapisch’s Paris, the zenith of cinematic homages to the French capital

Profile: Ingrid Betancourt

Mark Barclay explores the life of the Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt

Visions of Ooo: strange reflections of earth

Henry Bruce-Jones on Adevnture Time and how he learned to stop worrying and love nuclear fallout

Ruffian on the Stair

Mark Barclay is amused and appalled. Which is the right response?

A view from the Cheap Seat

2076. Two Brits at the Gates of Heaven.

Review: Hippolytus

Ben Thorne discusses the Oriel Greek Play: incest, mortality and everything in between
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