Tuesday 8th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

The Smiths: Then and Now

30 years on, Cherwell examines the legacy of The Smiths' self-titled album

Review: Morrissey — World Peace is None of Your Business

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews Morrisey’s new album.

Review: Laurence Clark: Moments of Instant Regret

Rose Sykes find this Edinburgh Preview hilariously close to the bone

Cheltenham Music Festival: A page turner’s view

Joseph Fell takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Cheltenham Music Festival.

Review: Grand Central

Rebecca Zlotowski's film about forbidden love treads beyond just illicit romance and tackles identity, appearance and loyalty

Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Robots, sparks and cars all combine to create an incomparably lazy monstrosity

Review: Sex Tape

Lacking severely in humour, Sex Tape is left to fester in its own awkward and unfunny squalor

A day on the set of a student film: Waterbird/Catkins

We spent the day with the crew of two student films being shot in Oxford, to see what the best of the amateur film scene has to offer

Interview: Regis Philbin

Cody Gifford sits down with Regis Philbin.

Review: Njal’s Saga

Andrew McLean finds Marquez in Medieval Iceland

OOTB charity single gets Shakira seal of approval

Out of the Blue’s charity single, ‘Hips Don’t Lie,’ plugged by Shakira

Review: Monty Python Live (mostly)

Are they the messiahs, or just very naughty boys? The verdict is in.

Review: Skylight

Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy star in this timely revival of David Hare's 1995 work

Review: Marina Abramović, 512 Hours

Naomi Polonsky experiences performance art history in the making

Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Though the simian performances ultimately carry the title, Planet of the Apes is ironically let down by its lacklustre and comparatively bland human characters

Review: Great Britain

Freya Judd finds Richard Bean's satire to be funny but flawed

Review: The Alchemist

Luke Barratt is impressed with this OUDS production of a Ben Jonson classic

Doctor Who – A Prognosis

Anna Corderoy speculates on the past, present and future of the classic series.

Review: Titus Andronicus

Jennifer Lanigan finds Lucy Bailey's revival of her 2006 blood-bath at The Globe mesmerising in its shocking brutality

Review: A Long Way Down

It's a long way down and still a ways to go for this underwhelming Nick Hornby adaptation, writes Cody Gifford

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