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Books you can’t sink your teeth into: A brief look into unsolvable manuscripts
If there’s one thing that most people appreciate, it’s a good mystery with a clever solution. It is no accident that Agatha Christie is listed as the Guinness World...
Review: Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective
Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective, which aired in cinemas this...
Has the romantic comedy lost its charm?
The romantic comedy genre is often criticised for its overreliance on tropes. The romcom...
Palimpsest
This is a secular city, built on holy bones.
We’re on the edge of another...
2024 was for the girls: The rapid success of female artists
The last nine months of pop can perhaps be summed up in one word:...
Review: Ratatat – Magnifique
Tom Waterhouse reviews Ratatat's latest album, and is left wanting.
Review: Around The World in 80 Days
Harrison Edmonds is charmed by the OUDS national tour production
The Art of the 140 Character Breakdown
Sam Joyce went down the rabbit hole of 'Existential Twitter,' and needs to give his therapist a call
Review: Still The Water
Naomi Kawase's latest meditative, mystical, edifying romance proves a bewitching proposition
Teenage flicks right through the night
Marc Barclay questions how exactly adolescent audiences are keeping cinemas open in the dark days of piracy and Netflix
Review: Years and Years – Communion
Sam Joyce is inebriated but not quite intoxicated on Years and Years' debut
Glastonbury 2015. The Verdict
I struck gold in the frantic game of ‘mash-the-refresh-button’ on October 5th last year. Seeing as 135,000 tickets sold out in just 25 minutes, I can’t help feeling Apollo was looking down kindly on me that day. My prize: a ticket to Glastonbury festival.
Why I’ve never been to a festival…
Reindeer burgers in the rain? Rachael Griffith knows where she'd rather be
Review: Jurassic World
Anthony Maskell finds Jurassic World an adrenaline-pumping thrill ride, but it doesn't quite live up to the original
Game of Thrones cares more about boners than storytelling
Sam Joyce would rather Game of Thrones dial back on the exploitative nudity, thank you very much
Review: Force Majeure
Sam Joyce gets swept up in the terrifying rhythms of this Swedish dark family comedy
Review: Oxford Revue
This is not intentionally meta
Review: His Dark Materials, Part 2
Hannah Congdon delights in the innovating staging of this fantastical production
Review: Play and That Time
Evie Ioaniddi is impressed by this accomplished rendering of difficult material
