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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: Toro y Moi – What For
Sam Joyce is impressed by a subtle new direction from Toro Y Moi
In photos: the fire at the Randolph
Cherwell brings you a visual montage of the events unfolding
Review: The Whitworth Gallery
Mark Barclay visits new exhibitions in Manchester's most prestigious art gallery
Review: Lost River
Ryan Gosling loses himself beneath his influences, in his stylish but messy directorial debut, Sam Joyce writes
6 songs to keep the Oxford bubble alive over the vac
Only a week to go before you return, but these songs should help to keep you going until then
Review: Kid Rock – First Kiss
Kid Rock fails to impress William Ferris with his latest offering
Coalition
Mark Barclay finds this Channel 4 film pits power against principle to dramatic but disenfranchising effect
Review: Cinderella
Anthony Maskell finds the live action Disney flick entertaining but unambitious
The Stranglers reviewed: no more heroes anymore?
Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews 70s rockers, The Stranglers' latest appearance at Oxford's O2 Academy
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
In the wake of the BFI's cinematic re-release of the cult classic, Toby Scadding takes a look back at how audiences came to love Blade Runner
Review: The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Rose Sykes is completely won over by this visually-striking, grown-up folk tale from Japan's Studio Ghibli
Review: NTLive’s A View from the Bridge
Sophie Hall-Luke finds the view from her cinema seat perfect for this stage adaption
Review: Still Alice
An Oscar-winning Julianne Moore is left in search of a film, in this Alzheimer's drama
Review: The Babadook
Anthony Maskell calls The Babadook a landmark chiller
