Wednesday 15th October 2025

Culture

Spike Lee’s lackluster remake: Highest 2 Lowest

There is no reason why a remake should remain inferior to its source material; even less so when it’s a ‘reinterpretation’ by an auteur as opposed to a cynical...

One book, 500 years of art: The History of Art in One Sentence

★★★★☆ Former Wadhamite Verity Babbs has created a practical guide to the history of art...

The Librarians (2025) at the Bodleian: reviewed

Kim A. Snyder’s The Librarians (2025) draws the audience into a pernicious web of...

Be brave, Oxford: Let’s put creativity back in the creative arts

Welcome back, Oxford. While you were away preparing for the next academic year, or...

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.

Review for OUDS Japan Tour "Taming of the Shrew"

A review of the opening of "The Taming of the Shrew" in Magdalen Gardens

Review: Splice

Some Freudian creepiness can't save this dull horror from mediocrity

Feature: Newman College, Oxford

Oliver Moody reviews the timely new biography a man who stands a little bit nearer the angels than most of us

Kings of Leon at Hyde Park

The Nashville boys play their biggest sell-out show to date

Said the Playwright to the Bishop

Review of Drew Pautz's new play at the National Theatre and its relevance for Oxford drama

The composer who painted music

Alex Dudok de Wit traces the career of Olivier Messiaen, maverick composer and bird-lover

Film4 Does DiCaprio

Film4 airs the four films that made DiCaprio an icon

Review: Inception

A furiously imaginative, action-packed and cerebral masterpiece.

Online Review: Lebanon

Jack Binysh gives his verdict on the Golden Lion winning Lebanon

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