Culture

Review: Closer – ‘Where Marber fails’

Labyrinth Production’s staging of Patrick Marber’s 1997 play, Closer, was an ambitious move for a student-run production company. Ambitious as it was, the cast themselves put on a strong...
Theatre Faye Chang -

Review: JACK – ‘Gas-lit showstoppers, intrigue, and murder’

Jack The Ripper is arguably the most famous killer of the Victorian era. There...
Theatre Rhys Ponsford -

September 5: Journalism drama doesn’t question the facts enough

Set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 tracks the ABC Sports...
Film Janik Peeters -

Periodisation and the problem of now

Periodisation is the act of dividing literature into eras like Romanticism, Modernism, or Postmodernism...
Books Ava Doherty -
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Review: Birdman

Katharine Stocker enjoys a trimphant - if self-conscious - return from Michael Keaton

Review: The Theory of Everything

Ollie Johnson found that the lacking script left the stunning performances out to dry

Review: the latest exhibition of Egon Schiele

Mark Barclay finds that the work of Schiele has lost none of its shock factor in “Schiele: The Radical Nude”

Review: The Interview

Following the controversy miring The Interview's release, Jennie Han finds Seth Rogen's latest childish and inane

Review: An Evening with The Cure

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews an evening spent watching The Cure at London's Hammersmith Apollo, complete with lipstick, dry ice and spinning tops galore.

Hip-hop rivalry: alive and well at 20

Tom Barrie looks at the history of hip-hop feuding, and its effect of keeping the genre fresh

"Music from another planet": the allure of ‘ugly’ music

With the dawn of a new year in music, Henry Bruce-Jones reflects on 2014's most 'ugly', deviant offerings

The Ten Best Oxford Shows of 2014

We take a look back at the theatrical high points of the past year

The power of the book

In light of the proposed prison book ban being overturned, Rose Sykes examines the redemptive power ascribed to literature and its importance in the prison system

Hilary Term at the New and Playhouse Theatres

Stage takes a quick look into what is on at the New and Playhouse Theatres next term

Review: Sam Smith – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Susan Yu reviews Sam Smith's latest cover of a longstanding Christmas classic

Review: Doctor Who Christmas Special 2014

Alex Stronell is impressed by this year’s Christmas adventure with the Doctor

Fed up with festivity? Try our anti-Christmas reading list

Satisfy your inner Scrooge with Lily McIlwain's recommended anti-Christmas literature

Review: Black Mirror: White Christmas

Charlie Brooker's devilish Black Mirror delivers once again, writes Rachael Griffith

Review: St. Vincent

Damien Shannon enjoys an impressive comedic return to form from Bill Murray

Review: Love Is Enough – William Morris and Andy Warhol

Helen McCombie ponders Jeremy Deller's curation of Modern Art Oxford's latest exhibition

Review: J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive

Tom Bain finds J. Cole's venture into personal storytelling a bold gamble with enjoyable results

Review: Morrissey – O2 London

Is Morrissey's 'electrifying miserablism' still enough to keep us listening?

Review: Charli XCX – Sucker

Sam Joyce finds Charli XCX's 'Sucker' a refreshing pop offering with all the sugary sweet trimmings

Should music fans put their trust in Trust Fund?

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews the fledgling band's gig at Village Underground, Shoreditch
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