Monday 1st September 2025

Culture

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

★★★⯨✰ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled into town with their new sketch comedy hour For Revue Dollars More, accompanied nightly by...

Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’

R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic,...

Oxford Commas at the Fringe – Interview

The Oxford Commas are a contemporary gender-inclusive a capella group who had their Fringe...

‘Aca-demic Weapons’ at the Fringe: Oxford Commas Review

★★★★☆ A capella groups from Oxford have long been favourites at the Edinburgh Fringe, with...

Hie Sir Trevor to a Nunnery?

Carla Neuss anticipates Trevor Nunn’s appointment as an Oxford professor, and then wonders what he actually does

Internet on film

Like The Social Network? It's not the first of its kind

The Social Network

Joshua Rosaler was there at Facebook's foundation, and gives Cherwell the inside story

Review: Come Around Sundown

'Kings of Leon go for a scrappier aesthetic'

The privileges of being a Villager

Matt Walsh talks to Villagers' frontman Conor O'Brien about his song writing and Hermann Hesse

Review: The Social Network

A convincing, witty and devastating portrayal of relationships gone wrong.

Freshers’ guide to Oxford cinemas

A useful guide to Oxford's best places to stuff your face with popcorn.

Fragments from the Fringe

Cherwell Stagents Andrew McCormack, Rimika Solloway and Millie Towsend bring you the thrills and embarrassing spills from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Why we won’t bother to back the Booker

Chris de Beneducci wonders why Britain's foremost literary prize fails to connect with anybody under the age of twenty

‘Murder’ in Christ Church

A behind the scenes look at 'Murder in the Cathedral'

Review: Klavierwerke

Alex Dudok de Wit washes himself in James Blake's progressive fourth EP

Welcome to Rocksford

Alex Dudok de Wit and Matt Walsh load freshers into their musical go-kart for a tour of the city

Interviews: Nigel Cole, Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen

Jenny Glennon speaks to the director & producers of Made in Dagenham

Review: Surfing The Void

Owain Jevons grabs his surfboard and heads for the nearest vacuum

French Pop Music Today

Rachel Coombes sorts the wheat from the Piaf

Reviews: Buried

Matt and Ben broadly agree that this is one of the tensest films of the year.

Review: Made in Dagenham

A review of one of the most highly anticipated British films of the decade

Review: Tamara Drewe

A talented cast and stylish visuals more than make up for this comedy's thin plot.

Review: The Town

Ben Affleck manages to resuscitate his career with this thrilling action flick.

Review: Catching A Tiger

Sam Pilgrim reviews the latest "indie-folk-rock-soulful-heartfelt" release by Lissie

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