Saturday 7th June 2025

Culture

‘Love in the face of hate’: A closer look at ‘Blood Wedding’

Emma Nihill Alcorta is the director of a new adaptation of the Spanish masterpiece Blood Wedding, running at the Oxford Playhouse. With flamenco rhythms and Spanish soul, our passionate ensemble...

Duplicity, infidelity and loyalty in ‘Crocodile Tears’

“An Italian summer romance that goes wrong” – this is how Crocodile Tears was...

Review: The Great Gatsby – ‘Indulge the extravaganza’

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

Barry Lyndon – Kubrick’s ultimate antifilm?

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

Review: The Architect

Bethan Roberts reviews the new Hypnotist Theatre offering

Panic at the disco: a night of trauma and regret

Ollie Johnson recounts how an ordinary Wednesday became a nightmare

Review: As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams

Fay Watson reviews this new student adaptation at the BT Studio

Review: The Boy Next Door

Emmanuelle Soffe argues that whilst J-Lo gives a respectable performance in The Boy Next Door, the true star is youngster Ryan Guzman

Review: Focus

Lauren Rofe writes that Will Smith's latest effort is a mixed bag

Paris: five exhibitions in five days

Abigail Legge sets herself an ambitious challenge on her year abroad, and discovers some fascinating Parisien treasures

Monumental Art: Composition No. 8

Beatrice Liese enjoys taking a deeper look at Kandinsky’s masterpiece

Loading the Canon: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Emmanuelle Soffe calls for the addition of Neil Gaiman’s surrealist novel to the literary establishment

Alice Oswald talks about performance and public poetry

Rose Sykes meets the subject of her Fourth Week review, and discusses the poet’s role in modern society

Preview: Iolanthe

Jessica McKeown is excited by this operatic spectacle

Preview: The Importance of Being Earnest

Krisztina Rakoczy gets a sneak peek at the St. Hilda's College Drama Society's new play

Preview: The Architect

Emma Irving is impressed by this unconventional preview for The Architect

Review: Fifty Shades of Grey

Anthony Maskell finds Fifty Shades of Grey a painfully punishing experience

Review: Inherent Vice

Absurd brilliance pervades Inherent Vice

Where are they now: O-Zone

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to...

Moon King: mooning the music industry

Sara Semic chats to Moon King’s Daniel Benjamin about dream-pop and Boiler Room sessions

Review: Ibeyi – Ibeyi

Clara-Laeïla Laudette is taken in by the French-Cuban twins' Yoruba-inspired debut album

Review: Carl Barât and The Jackals – Let It Reign

Aidan Clark is unimpressed by The Libertines co-frontman's solo endeavours

Review: José González – Vestiges & Claws

Rachael Griffith is swayed by the soothing melodies of Swedish folk singer José González

Confessions of a metalhead

Colette Lewis bemoans the prejudice against heavy metal music and its fans

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