Monday 20th October 2025

Culture

“NOR GLOM OF NIT?”: ‘Going Postal’ reviewed

“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY.” It is this (somewhat incomplete) motto of the Post Office setting that captures in...

On Gravel and Quads: Woolf’s Oxbridge in ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important...

Dear Reader,

It has been so long since last I felt  your fingertips tracing my pages, cascading shivers...

Cillian Murphy does it again

Since his generation-defining performance in Oppenheimer (2023) two years ago, Cillian Murphy has shown...

Review: Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie xx – We’re New Here

An album that will win you over to the 'post-dubstep' sound of 2011

Review: Barber Of Seville

Leah Broad praises New Chamber Opera's production of The Barber at the Sheldonian Theatre

Prepare to De/Install

Henrietta Landells chats with Peter Shenai, one of the brains behind MAO's new installation.

‘And the loser is…’

Cherwell looks at the best films to have not won a Best Picture Academy Award

When TV thinks big

Cherwell considers the thinning line between television and cinema

Review: Batman The Pantomime

The Dark Knight becomes Light Entertainer

Review: A Dream Play

William Hooper finds his dreams coming true in this spectacular production

Farce: A Serious Business

An interview with author and director of Restrictions May Apply

First Night Review: Monsters

Rimika Solloway sees this powerful production answer its critics

The awards season hits oxford

A look at the upcoming Oxford Film Festival and the "Ox-scars"

Love During Wartime

All's fair in love and war

Watch Together/Watch Alone

A guide to what to opt for whether you're on a date or having some alone time....

Review: Never Let Me Go

Young British heavyweights Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan star in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguru’s novel set in an alternate Britain.

Review: Spring Awakening

Conor Tucker is impressed by this powerful, punkish musical

Review: Paul

Pegg and Frost's latest effort is in dire need of the Wright stuff.

Interview: Mark Romanek

Cherwell speaks to director Mark Romanek, the self-professed 'film brat' behind 'Never Let Me Go'

A ‘Jerry Maguire’ Guide to Love

Cherwell takes a look at what the 1990s classic tells us about love and the rom-com.

Back to the age of innocence

They call it peter-pan complex

The Sublime and the Grotesque

Cherwell reviews the Oxford Art Movement show with a tantalizing theme.

21 Sketchbooks

Alisha Patel interviews the creators of Keble's collaborative art project.

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