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.

Culture Ruaridh McEwen -

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.

Books Manya Singh -

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.

Culture Cherwell Fashion -

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.

Culture Charlie Bailey -

Gerard’s Way of getting things done

Sam Joyce talks comics and new solo LPs with My Chemical Romance's frontman

Review: The Charlatans – Modern Nature

Aidan Clark finds the latest offering from the revered indie-rock band a hopeful channel after the bereavement of drummer Jon Brookes

Review: Nina Kraviz – DJ-Kicks

Freddy Rendall reviews the latest mix from the Siberian DJ making waves with her hypnotic techno

Milestones: Apocalypse Now

Ollie Johnson looks at nature's role in the making of Apocalypse Now

"Oh Charles, what a lot you have to learn!"

Fergus Morgan talks to the acting director of the Oxford Botanic Garden

Review: Blake-inspired LiveFriday at the Ashmolean

Mark Barclay reflects upon his interactive night at the museum

Loading the Canon: W. G. Sebald

Jacob Verter calls for the addition of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn to the literary establishment

Alice Oswald: the modern epic poet to rival Homer

Rose Sykes reflects on the influences and work of the next speaker in Keble’s Meet the Poet series

Review: Plenty

Emma Irving reviews David Hare's play about post-war disenchantment

Preview: Noises Off

Bethan Roberts previews an upcoming metatheatrical comedy

Review: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Mark Loughridge reviews the latest incarnation of a classic

Review: The Boss of It All

Anna Zanetti reviews this Lars von Trier adaptation

Preview: Macbeth

Hannah Dewhirst checks out an upcoming production at Regent's Park

Review: Paddington

Anthony Maskell finds the Peruvian bear's first outing on the silver screen to be a huggable affair

Review: The Effect

Anna Zanetti reviews The Effect at the Keble O'Reilly

Review: Bitter Lake

Bitter Lake is a robust critique of modern geopolitics, writes Kyran Schmidt

Review: Mortdecai

Sam Joyce thinks that Mortdecai is another nail in the coffin of Johnny Depp’s career

Preview: The George and Dragon

Katherine Cowles previews this new student show ahead of its run at The Burton Taylor

Anti-celebrity rules OK. Long live Baldwin.

Ollie Johnson examines the hypocrisy of the famous rejecting fame

Milestones: Bowling for Columbine

Fergus Morgan reflects on Michael Moore's seminal examination of America's gun problem

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