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Image description: Man on horseback with man next to him on a bike in front of a pink sky with the title ‘Dusklands’ in pink font Dusklands is difficult to describe. In the words of its director Bruno Atkinson it is a ‘post-colonial, post-virus Don Quixote, which just happened to be filmed.’ The short film […]
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Image description: Rodrigo sticking her tongue out and standing against a purple background, with stickers on her face and the letters spelling ‘SOUR’ on her tongue. Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR is the perfect debut album. It draws on familiar genres and themes, which is probably why Rodrigo has been compared so much to the likes of […]
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Image description: Cinema lobby lit up in neon pink lighting Cinemas have reopened, and according to my completely unbiased and totally comprehensive research, nobody in England is as excited about this as I am. I was never a massive film fan before the pandemic; I’d usually watch a few Oscar nominees and winners annually to […]
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Image description: a bottle of wine which reads ‘Bianco di Bisenzio’ against a white wall with pink and blue paper chains hanging in the background. The Oxford Wine Company can be found on Turl Street, Little Clarendon Street, and Botley Road. This week, they have kindly sent us a mouth-watering 2019 Italian white wine for […]
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Image description: Paper shopping bags against mint background with the title ‘Checking out’ above. Checking Out produced by Orange Script Production and written by William Heath is styled as a ‘comedy-drama which follows the beginnings of the unlikely relationship between larger-than-life, mid-forties shop assistant Julie and recently-widowed octogenarian Elsie’. It is, however something much more […]
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Image description: Eurovision crowds in purple and turquoise lighting turned to a stage with a spotlight Following Saturday’s Grand Final, another Eurovision has come and gone. In what felt like the quickest grand final in recent memory, 26 countries competed for the glass microphone trophy, with Italy pulling up ahead of the jury-favourites Switzerland and […]
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Image description: the promotional artwork for The Arnolfini Portrait (an illustration of two figures set against a pale blue background, with the play’s title in dark blue lettering) With the absence of staging, lighting and costume among the many other elements which make up an understanding of theatre in the traditional sense, it could be […]
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Image Description – promotional image for the album; Arlo Parks’ sits on an orange chair with album title written next to her Arlo Parks’ breakout album is a 40-minute long exploration of adolescence, anguish and acceptance. Diaristic lyrics and a kaleidoscope of influences seep through Parks’ honeyed voice and mellow tunes in “Collapsed in Sunbeams”. […]
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Image description: A bottle of white wine called ‘Essence: Riesling Raimund Prüm’ on a table with a yellow mug. For March’s review, The Oxford Wine Company were kind enough to provide me with a lovely screw top bottle to save my house from another embarrassing episode with a corkscrew. I am admittedly not someone who […]
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Image Description: (Left) Rita Mae Brown, (Right) Cover of Rubyfruit Jungle There are always lots of recommendations floating around of what to read, watch, and listen to in LGBT history month. However, finding older books and films that clearly foreground queer characters can prove difficult: the lengthy backlog of historical classics that emphasise heterosexual relationships […]
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Image description: label of bottle of wine: Argentinian Aguaribay Malbec from Baron Edmond de Rothschild I have been a staunch supporter of The Oxford Wine Company since I first set foot in their Turl Street shop as a Fresher. I remember being pleasantly surprised as despite the fact that I was a student obviously looking […]
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Image description: Ralph Fiennes playing archaeologist Basil Brown in The Dig The excavation of Sutton Hoo may seem like an odd choice for Netflix’s new movie; archaeology doesn’t really fill people with excitement unless it is Indiana Jones. However, The Dig (2021), directed by Simon Stone, manages to make an exceedingly compelling dramatisation of real-life […]
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Image description: A poster for the play, reading “this is going to feel a bit strange” With no choice but to spend far too much time staring at screens this year, when I first read about Simulacrum, I was decidedly unenthused at the prospect of spending yet another hour and a half of my life […]
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Image Description: the publicity poster for V-Card (a pink background, with ‘V-Card’ written in white and filled with peach, banana, and water drop emojis). Candid, raw, and laugh out loud funny, V-Card is an unabashed confrontation of societal myths and misconceptions about sex and relationships, made all the more endearing through its likeable characters, all-too relatable mishaps, […]
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Image Description: Tim Wraith, the cookbook compiler, holding the cookbook in front of a sign reading: ‘Our vision is for high-quality end of life care to be available to everyone who needs it in Oxfordshire. Sobell House is an Oxford-based hospice that provides palliative care for people across Oxfordshire. Earlier this week, I had the […]
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Image description: A person dressed in a space suit standing in front of cliffs. As you start the game, the screen goes black and a low discordant tone plays. Before you, a line of brightly coloured, cartoonish space suits appear. “Crewmate,” it reads, “There is one imposter among us.” The gameplay of Among Us is […]
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Image description: Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Borat, on a bus Sacha Baron Cohen’s films are always difficult to pin down, being weird and often uncomfortable mixtures of straight comedy, satire, sketch-show, and documentary. I can confidently say that no one watching Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Prime) is doing so for the plot. Nor, […]
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Image description: Ariana Grande in mid-performance. Ariana Grande is probably the only artist of the moment who can truly be identified as a ‘pop star’. There are other pop artists, to be sure – Dua Lipa, Camila Cabello, Doja Cat – but none of them come with the glittery sparkle and cult of personality that […]
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Image description: Two bowls of food: the left is a bowl of spicy red noodle soup, the right a green pandan waffle and ice-cream. Located on the top floor of the Westgate, Pho Café is the perfect place to go for dinner if you want to feel like you’ve slightly left the beaten track, without […]
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