Friday 20th February 2026

Culture

The ‘Silent’ Film

Not speaking does not necessarily mean having nothing to say. As much can be said with an image, movement, or glance as with a word.

A day in The Sun: ‘Ink’ at St John’s

James Graham’s Ink, directed by Georgina Cooper with the St John’s Drama Society, dramatises Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of The Sun in the 1960s, tracing its astonishing surge to unprecedented popularity.

‘Cathy naur’: Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ in review

Although my Yorkshire identity and love of 19th-century novels make me inclined to defend Emily Brontë with all my might, I really did give this film a chance.

‘Crawling with personality’: ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ in conversation

Last week, I infiltrated a rehearsal for Cross Keys and 2046 Productions’ upcoming Little Shop Of Horrors.

Review:The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Rimika Solloway on glittering gold and less than glittering shouting

Review: The New Electric Ballroom

Anna Milne relieves her adolescent sexual encounters with three old almost-maids

Review: Shobaleader One d’Demonstrator, Squarepusher

Olaf One d-Pezzledon listens to this 'acoustic-digital dichotomy'

More than Murder in the Cathedral

Chloe Noble fails to find the words for a play that wasn’t a play but a mystical experience

Not one to panda to the masses

Gold Panda tells Charlie McCann why he isn’t a fan of his music, and why he doesn’t care who is

OUDS Drama: a battle of the sexes

The Royal Hunt of the Sun and New Electric Ballroom directors talk to Carla Neuss about Inca warriors, sexual encounter and the ‘woman’s question’ in Oxford drama

C’est tres amusant, no?

Josephine Sarchet goes against popular belief and explains how French films can be funny

Review: A Town called Panic

Dale Viva-Lee begins a Cherwell Film French special with one of the best and strangest films of the year

The French Connection

Evie Deavall bridges the Channel and discusses cinematic camaraderie with actor Jean-Claude Dreyfus

When dreaming spires no longer inspire

Annabel James reviews two new exhibitions which explore the meaning we give to the materials around us

Nothing rhymes with ‘polio’

Our de facto America correspondent Dave McLeod meets his nemesis in legendary author Philip Roth’s new novel, Nemesis.

Review: ‘I Don’t Want To See You Like This’

Matt Walsh runs over the new track from the Joy Formidable

Interview: Adam Buxton

Benjamin Kirby's extended interview with comedian, actor & radio presenter Adam Buxton

Interview: S1l3nc3

Oliver Moody talks to the acclaimed 'mind abuse' artist - in absolute silence

Review: Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up

Moneeb Nasir sizes up Oceansize's latest album, then heads to their gig for a reappraisal

Ionesco’s Play Is A Lesson For Us All

The futility of existence and pervasive erocticism: this play takes William Hooper back to school

Rekindling a passion for books

Jamie Randall takes on the traditionalists and finds himself E-lated by the prospect of electronic reading

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

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