Sunday 15th March 2026

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 7

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Football and Music

Tom Barrie examines the fruitful marriage of football and music

Interview: Nick Jonas

Nick Jonas talks to Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull about his childhood and life in the media spotlight

Monumental Art: Seven Works of Mercy

Anna Zanetti discusses Caravaggio in the latest installment of our series

Loading the Canon: Barbara Pym

Lily McIlwain calls for the addition of Barbara Pym to the literary establishment

Death of a Playwright: Arthur Miller remembered

10 years on, Emma Irving looks back at the work of one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest writers

Review: The Duchess of Malfi

Zara Brownless enjoys this modernised version of the Renaissance tragedy

Review: King Lear

Mark Barclay reviews this original, cinematic reinvention of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies

Voices from the Past: Sylvia Plath

Hear Plath reading her own poetic account of her tortured relationship with her father

Review: Captain Amazing

Anna Zanetti reviews this one man show at the BT Studio

Preview: Blood Wedding

Lata Nobes gets a sneak peak at the new adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding

The Author: The Atrocity Exhibition

Michael Roderick discusses the rehearsed reading of The Author, part of the OUDS New Writing Festival

Oscar Predictions – 2015

Which films will win big on Oscar night, and which films ought to? Toby Scadding airs his views

Review: Selma

Clara-Læïla Laudette finds Selma to be a powerful and politically motivating film

Review: Jupiter Ascending

Emmanuelle Soffe saw Jupiter Ascending as a film that failed to take off

Review: OUDS New Writing Festival

Bethan Roberts reviews four plays by upcoming writers

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