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Netflix brought us The Kissing Booth this past May, which quickly rose to popularity with young audiences. But in the battle of 2018 YA film adaptations, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a sure winner. Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel of the same name, this story follows Lara Jean Covey, a die-hard […]
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Completing all the quests feels like a momentous achievement. Getting that golden 100% on your save file isn’t bad either. In gaming, completion is often everything; inflated egos and bragging rights last for weeks. Yet for all the strain and countless hours you’ve burned, something’s missing. Ultimately, you know you’ve taken the boring path, you’ve […]
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Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Among the biggest news to come out of the entertainment industry recently is that the latest reboot heading to our screens will be of the much-loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. The news was broken by a report from The Hollywood Reporter and, as one might expect, it has since […]
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Image Credit: Epic Games via Polygon Duncan Jones, the director behind Warcraft and Moon, will be bringing Rogue Trooper, one of the 2000 AD properties of Oxford-based comics publishers Rebellion, to the big screen. The director sparked intense fan speculation last week by teasing that his next film would be based on a mystery comic book […]
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1.Cane, Jean Toomer (1923) – Harlem Renaissance author Toomer beautifully interweaves lyric, prose and drama in this series of vignettes written about the cultural history and experiences of African Americans in the United States. These stories are often pervaded by nauseating violence, such as cruel ostracisation in “Becky” or sexual violence in the “Box Seat”, […]
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It was in 1871 that John Ruskin, Oxford’s first Slade Professor, opened his School of Drawing, intending to develop a course for the University that would lead to a degree in art. Originally housed in the University Galleries, the school eventually moved to its current home on the High Street in 1975, where it was […]
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We can skip the back story, as we all know who Kanye West is by now. Whether you have sung along to ‘Gold Digger’ at a bop, watched the debate about him at the Union last year or sported the finest shutter shades Claire’s Accessories had to offer in 2007 (guilty) – Kanye West is […]
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Sitting in the middle of a field in London, pint in hand, listening to some of the most exciting bands of our time as the sun set, I felt like I had potentially taken escaping the ‘Oxford bubble’ a little too far. Though it was winding to the end of a long sixth week, the […]
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Travel is a beautiful distorting mirror, one in which we can look back at ourselves and at different places, just like in books. Yet, this becomes even more spine-tingling when done through the lens of another age, through another’s eyes – this was my impression when I entered the world of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by […]
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Richard Melville Hall is a man of modest means. Even when he gained a huge amount of critical acclaim for Play, his fifth studio album, the New Yorker remained grounded. In a personally memorable episode of the MTV series ‘Cribs’ around 15 years ago, his humble personality and modest abode provided a remarkably refreshing view […]
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Dorian, a student-produced six-episode webseries based on the Oscar Wilde novel A Picture of Dorian Gray, will wrap up filming this summer after three years of development. I talked to co-directors and writers Tara Snelling and Elli Siora, both at Regent’s Park, about the difficulties of sustaining a project for this long, adapting Wilde for […]
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#Oxfess17769: “I get so annoyed at exchange students … coming here for a term or 2 … it honestly seems like you’re not here on merit, but overprivileged and here with your parents’ money to blow on a fun time traveling Europe.” I took the liberty of fixing some punctuation errors in this high-achieving student’s message. But, […]
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Dining Al Desko leaps forth with a gleeful nihilism, capturing the very worst of office life in the very best of ways. A comically tragic (or tragically comic?) exploration of high-pressure stress in the world of work, it is a production that succeeds in the difficult task of remaining grounded in a bleak reality while […]
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For those unfamiliar with the concept, concert films are film screenings with live orchestral accompaniment. Though the popularity of concert film has rocketed in recent years, they are by no means a recent development. The earliest known concert film was Concert Magic which premiered at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in 1947. Featuring the renowned violinist […]
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I cannot be the only person who greets yet another music plagiarism case with a sigh of frustration. This time it is the turn of James Arthur to be sued by The Script over his single ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’. For anyone who listens to the openings of these songs the similarities in […]
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The first moments of Courtney Barnett’s latest album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, sound reminiscent of those of ‘Kim’s Caravan’ from her 2015 debut, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. However, unlike the earlier track, which sees the brooding opening guitars become a howling penultimate song, ‘Hopefulessness’ slowly assembles itself […]
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A few days ago, I watched the last episode ever of Once Upon a Time – again. You may think that, having done exactly the same thing almost exactly a year ago, with what was then supposed to be the concluding episode of the entire series, the emotional impact of the experience could not be […]
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The humble music video is an integral part of the entertainment industry today. Whether it’s watching ‘OK Go’ dancing on treadmills, or a-ha performing in a comic-book world, it’s fair to say that they’ll be around for a while yet. But given the amount of people involved in the production, from directors to makeup and […]
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Life meets death meets virtual life in Hereafter, a new play by Chloë Taylor exploring the inhumane and even inhuman treatment of bereavement in the world of work. Eva (Martha Harlan) is grieving her dead husband when she is called in to work and asked by her boss with a sickening faux empathy to be […]
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