Thursday 30th April 2026

Culture

In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. The film centres around a couple whose otherwise perfect relationship is...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

It has been 93 years since the first performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good...

Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it...

Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

In the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers mark the beginning of spring on the date of...

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

Italian Renaissance Drawings @ The British Museum

Jane-Marie Saldanha reviews one of the biggest exhibitions of the year

Bob Dylan Plays Kent

Alistair Smout sees if Dylan has remained forever young at Hop Farm

Elvis Costello @ The New Theatre

'Little Hands of Concrete' still has some life in him yet

Happiness is a Warm Smith Western

Matt Walsh pulls the trigger on the rough-and-ready Illinois indie-rockers

Online Review: Whatever Works

Ben Kirby heralds the return of old school Woody Allen.

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