Friday 29th August 2025

Culture

‘Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? is a one-man, one-puppet musical journey through the apocalypse. After a 'catastrophic' magnitude 1-ish earthquake, the dead are reanimated, unleashing a zombie outbreak....

‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the...

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...

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.

Review: Nurse

Dominic Hewett finds Paul Whitehouse's new dark comedy adept at balancing humanity and humour

Review: Seventh Son

Anthony Maskell finds Sergei Bodrov's sword-and-sorcery epic a disappointing waste of time and talent

"HOLY SH*T I’M ONLINE": art, literature and the web

Fintan Calpin discusses postinternet art and literature

Preview: Game of Thrones Season Five

Emmanuelle Soffe recaps events on the hit show, and looks ahead to what may be coming our way in the next season

Review: Mark Knopfler – Tracker

Mark Barclay is disappointed by Knopfler's good but predictable album

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