Culture

How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.

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Translating Oxford into Urdu

It’s a different emotion whenever I read the Urdu language. I’m not a native speaker, nor have I actively pursued learning the language, but as someone who finds solace in reading shayari (Urdu poetry), I wanted to follow it even in Oxford.

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Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

A few weeks ago we, the Cherwell fashion editors, were lucky enough to be extended an invite by the Global Fashion Collective to their London Fashion Week show.

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Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.

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Daughter rocks to fuzzy guitar serenity

Ellen Peirson-Hagger watches the London indie trio descend into a hazy stage mist

Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe

Beckie Rutherford finds this production a little too 'in-yer-face' for her taste

Review: Field Music – Commontime

Field Music move on to mature indie in their new album

Culture Corner: ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’

Bex Watson examines the exquisite artistry of ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’, by The Darkness

Maybe darkness ain’t too bad

Thomas Hornigold muses on the human obsession with escaping darkness

Preview: Heavy Petting (Oxford Revue)

Matt Roberts urges you to go and be heavily petted

Preview: Amour

The International Rameau Ensemble brings French Baroque to Oxford on 6th February

Spooky Sets and Stuffed Cats: Ben Travers’ Aldwych Farces

Jack Bradfield looks at the neglected playwright Ben Travers in the run up to the appearance of 'Thark' next week

Spotlight: lip service to modernity

Matt Roberts is frustrated by gimmicks and hashtags from a director who should know better

Constellations: Preview

Richard Birch hopes the stars align for this compelling adaptation

The Union’s Holy Trinity

A look ahead to the three stellar speakers at the Union next week

The Bible — an overlooked literary skeleton key

Harriette Drew explains why we need scripture to understand literature

Is This Art? My Carpet

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art and Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Naomi Gee takes on her carpet