Culture

Review: As You Like It – ‘What’s not to like?’

At last, the sun is coming out to play, and the Mansfield Players’ staging of As You Like It has given this summer’s outdoor theatre season a merry welcome....
Theatre Sanaya Narula -

From cloisters to concrete: Oxford’s architectural evolution

As a proud member of one of Oxford’s younger colleges – one that didn’t...
Art Sophie Price -

Adolescence: Can TV spark radical change in young men?

Adolescence is just another example of art acting as a conversation piece. The recent...
Film Tom Cockburn -

Hand over Heart

"So bite the heel that walked you home in the rain"
The Source Briony Arnott -
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Film Criticism – a Snob’s Retreat?

Hannah Congdon argues that the pretension of “high culture” needs to stop

Preview: Catz Arts Festival

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

Review: Toro y Moi – What For

Sam Joyce is impressed by a subtle new direction from Toro Y Moi

In photos: the fire at the Randolph

Cherwell brings you a visual montage of the events unfolding

Review: The Whitworth Gallery

Mark Barclay visits new exhibitions in Manchester's most prestigious art gallery

Review: Lost River

Ryan Gosling loses himself beneath his influences, in his stylish but messy directorial debut, Sam Joyce writes

6 songs to keep the Oxford bubble alive over the vac

Only a week to go before you return, but these songs should help to keep you going until then

Review: Kid Rock – First Kiss

Kid Rock fails to impress William Ferris with his latest offering

Coalition

Mark Barclay finds this Channel 4 film pits power against principle to dramatic but disenfranchising effect

Review: Cinderella

Anthony Maskell finds the live action Disney flick entertaining but unambitious

The Stranglers reviewed: no more heroes anymore?

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews 70s rockers, The Stranglers' latest appearance at Oxford's O2 Academy

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

In the wake of the BFI's cinematic re-release of the cult classic, Toby Scadding takes a look back at how audiences came to love Blade Runner

Review: The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Rose Sykes is completely won over by this visually-striking, grown-up folk tale from Japan's Studio Ghibli

Review: NTLive’s A View from the Bridge

Sophie Hall-Luke finds the view from her cinema seat perfect for this stage adaption

Review: Still Alice

An Oscar-winning Julianne Moore is left in search of a film, in this Alzheimer's drama

Review: The Babadook

Anthony Maskell calls The Babadook a landmark chiller

An artist’s obsessions

Surya Bowyer reviews the Barbican's eclectic new exhibition of artists' personal collections

Review: Poldark

Sophie Hall-Luke is seduced by Poldark's charms.

Review: Insurgent

Emmanuelle Soffe struggled to engage with the latest disposable entry in the Divergent series.

Review: Wild Tales

Toby Scadding finds this Almodóvar produced anthology a riotous examination of people pushed to the brink.
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