Culture

How cinema has taught us to see Autumn

Autumn is clearly a time for comfort and reflection, a fact the film industry has learnt very well and pumps into new releases.

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Beyond litter and emissions: The environmental costs of loud sound at music festivals

The music festivals of the summer have packed up and moved on. Stages and sound systems have been dismantled, litter cleared, and land reseeded.

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‘Burning Down the House’: A review

During the odd ‘in-between’ space that is Week 0, I searched for a show to give me something to do, amid the random dilly-dallying and the odd collection currently occupying my time.

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Why ‘No Bad Memories’ is my album of the year

I didn't expect how perfectly my personal happiness would fit an album so preoccupied with the sounds of old advertisements and obsolete electronics, filled with the relentless optimism of a world that believed the future could only get better.

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One to Watch: Big Hat

The vast majority of ex-sixth form bands are usually very bad. Big Hat, says Natasha Frost, are quite the reverse

Press Preview: The Blind Spot

Alex Sheppard is entertained by this piece of new writing, though it's no royal flush.

Review: Cabaret

There are two ways to a reviewer’s heart: a brilliant production, and free wine. Unfortunately, Joshua Phillips received neither.

Review: Vagina Monologues

Claire Harrill feels that, whilst there are many well observed moments, this production of the Vagina Monologues could have benefitted well from a little more rehearsal

Press Preview: Never Say Never

Jack Powell is nonplussed by this new adaptation.

Review: Under the Mask – OAM

Henry Asson unmasks the Oxford Art Movement

Review: Messiah Man

Daniel Frampton is disappointed by a chaotic and under rehearsed performance of Messiah Man at the Burton Taylor

Review: Wit

Daniel Frampton is impressed by a moving and thought provoking production

Press Preview: Orpheus in the Underworld

Claire Harrill is delighted by this witty operetta.

Review: Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks

James Black expresses some misgivings about Of Montreal's latest release

Magdalen Film Society: In the Mood for Love

Goh Li Sian reflects on the first film scheduled for MFS's 'Lovesick' week, showing on Sunday 12th February

Life in Film: Chris Foster

Goh Li Sian kicks off our new Life in Film feature by interviewing Chris Foster, Corpus porter

Sneak Peak:The Blind Spot

A sneak peak into the first play from Royal Court young writer Alexander Darby in which a vicious poker game in an elite boarding school exposes public school morality, fractured ego and callous teenage humanity.