Monday 8th December 2025

Culture

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s 2009 tragicomedy.  The play follows a group of people of different ages taking a beginners’ drama...

‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025

When I wandered into Tingewick Hall on a cold, dark evening in seventh week,...

A comical approach to a classic text: ‘Hedda Gabler’ reviewed

Tiptoe Productions’ Hedda Gabler, co-directed by Ollie Gillam and Gilon Fox, delivered a strong...

‘Lux’ by Rosalía review: A breath of fresh air

'The Latin title ‘Lux’ perfectly embodies the concept and overall aesthetic of divine femininity, as well as the multilingual aspects that run throughout the work. With complex and meaningful lyrics written in 13 languages, and split into four movements, the record is a breath of fresh air for the pop scene'.

Review: Gap Year: A New Musical Comedy

Quintin Caldwell has his spirits lifted by this twenty-something comedy

Review: A View from the Bridge

Rachel Hutchings is impressed with this intense realisation of an Arthur Miller classic

Movies and Shakers – Episode I

Introducing a brand spanking new film podcast; this week featuring discussions on Looper, Manhattan, and films named after cities generally.

Zoom in on…photo blogging

Nasir Hamid talks to Amy Rollason about recording a living social history through his photography

Julay!

Chloe Cornish takes us to the jaw-dropping landscape of the Himalayan mountain region of Ladakh

The Good Natured

Alex Chalk goes gothic with The Good Natured.

Review: Anna Karenina

Harry Dienes examines the latest cinematic adaptation of Tolstoy's epic.

Interview: Marina and the Diamonds

Olivia Arigho Stiles quizzes Marina and the Diamonds on fame, music and feminism

Interview: Alan Davies

Alan Davies talks about the pain of living and his imminent return to stand-up comedy

‘We Bury Our Own’ Exhibition Review

Rachel Hutchings reviews Christian Thomspson's evocative photography, currently exhibited at the Pitt Rivers.

Illyria Film Fund opens in Oxford

Nick Hilton speaks to the founders of a new film fund aimed at aspiring film-makers amongst Oxford students

Review: Downton Abbey – Series 3

Lizzie Greene is still enjoying the nation's most loved and least plausible period drama

Interview: Peter Bradshaw

Hattie Soper speaks to Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw about his career and the future of cinema

Review: Looper

Georgina Pollard is impressed by this new take of the time travel movie

Is there a ‘way to be gay’?

Adam Whiley is frustrated with a book that he believes undermines the advances of the LGBT movement.

Preview: A View from the Bridge

Heather Young watches a believable reality unfold before her eyes

Lied-ing Light

Katy Wright talks to Sholto Kynoch, artistic director of the Oxford Lieder Festival.

All Freshers to the Stage

Cherwell Stage offers a guide to all you need to get started, whether aspiring impresario, techie or prima dona

¡Vamos España!

Sophie Baggott and her camera spend a week in the Spanish sunshine

Zoom in on…paparazzi photographers

In the first of our new interview series, Jaimie Harris talks to Sophie Baggott and Amy Rollason about life as a pap

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