Friday 29th August 2025

Culture

‘Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? is a one-man, one-puppet musical journey through the apocalypse. After a 'catastrophic' magnitude 1-ish earthquake, the dead are reanimated, unleashing a zombie outbreak....

‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the...

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...

Review: Small Craft On A Milk Sea – Brian Eno

‘Each track evokes a shifting cinematic landscape’, says Alex Dudok de Wit

Back on track with Annie Mac

Evie Deavall discusses Britain’s sound of 2010 with the biggest Mac this side of fast food stores

Interview: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Claire Castles has a plucking good chat with the world's most famous Ukulele players

Online Review: Carthaginians

Henry Whorwood is mightily impressed by a drama based around the Bloody Sunday massacre

Cherwell photo blog – Fourth Week

Some more photographic treats from MT10!

Browned Off

We sent some of our photographers to the Browne review protest on Thursday. Here are the results...

Bernard hasn’t lost any Sharpeness

The best-selling creator of Richard Sharpe and author of The Fort talks to Beau Woodbury in the Union bar

The Notorious L.I.T: burn these books

Cherwell Culture has read awful books, so that you don’t have to (but also so we can say nasty things about them)

Review: North – Darkstar

'Darkstar expand dubstep's crossover potential further than ever before', says Joseph Lloyd

I ain’t saying he’s a golddigger

Alex Dudok de Wit investigates the effects of the global recession on the hip hop genre

Hidden Horror

Cherwell Culture finds three hidden horror gems. Less well known, but seriously scary. Don't read this column alone.

Should you go see Saw?

This Halloween's dose of gore is dissected by Dale Viva-Lee

Psychological Warfare

'Cherwell Film believes Paranormal Activity 2 to be a bad piece of cinema'. Time for an editorial debate

Are you trying to seduce me, Mr. Ralf?

Oliver Moody falls prey to the charms of a stage adaptation of The Graduate.

Cyrano Right on the Nose

There's nose-story like a good old story: Andrew McCormack's verdict on SF Productions Cyrano de Bergerac

Cherwell photo blog – Week 3

The photo blog returns, taking a look at the term so far

Claim your right to rewrite the new writing

Ballgowns, Strongbow and that Regina Spektor track: Carla Neuss gives her exclusive guide to writing a new drama.

Review: Despicable Me

Despite moments of hilarity and emotion, this is a fairly average animation.

The Myth of French Cinema

Luke Partridge on the assumed brilliance of French cinema

Review:The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Rimika Solloway on glittering gold and less than glittering shouting

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