Thursday 3rd July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Review: Salt

Angelina Jolie's new vehicle is preposterous, convoluted and surprisingly entertaining.

Playwriting that pays the bills

An interview with playwright, Rachel Barnett on her new work, The Law of Inertia

Review: Big Chill

Patrick Fleming finds his festival served uncomfortably lukewarm

Interviews: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Cherwell interrogates the stars behind Edgar Wright's latest offering.

Reviews: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Jen and Ben clash over the effectiveness of this comic book brought to life.

Review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

An abundance of style is no substitute for intelligence or heart.

The real Serge Gainsbourg?

Alex Dudok de Wit watches Joann Sfar's "fairytale" biopic of the French sleazebag icon

Fritzl to hit-zl

Cherwell reviews 'Room', the darkest dark horse in the race for the Booker

Review: The Expendables

A terrible, testosterone-filled fusion of Team America and My Beautiful Laundrette.

Interview: The Expendables

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren chat about their action-packed film.

Review: Best Coast

Is Matt crazy for new Californian outfit Best Coast? Well, almost.

It’s OK To Cry In Films

Why shedding a tear in the cinema can only be a good thing.

Review: The Master and Margarita

Review of The Master and Margarita, now playing at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Wolfgang Tillmans at the Serpentine Gallery

Chris de Beneducci reviews a retrospective of the controversial German photographer

The Tarantino Conundrum

Ben Kirby examines what happens when good directors go bad.

Top 5: Open Air Cinema Events

The best of this Summer's outdoor cinema venues

Review: Dawkins debunked

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson tries her hand at philosophy

Review: The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Ben Kirby reviews the Old Vic's revival of Neil Simon's 1971 play starring Jeff Goldblum

Behind the Fringe: The Master and Margarita

A behind the scenes interview with the creative minds behind the new adaptation of Bulgakov's novel

Reviews: Toy Story 3

Two reviewers reach the same conclusion: it's a beautiful trip back to childhood joys.

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