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Image credit: Connor Thirlwell. Description: Cirkus on George Street. Picture the scene… you’ve spent the whole day in the library, you’re sick of writing notes on spiders’ sexual behaviour, your eyelids are drooping, then somebody suggests to you: “Burning Down the House? Cirkus?” So, reluctantly, you are persuaded to down a double vodka cranberry and […]
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Image Credit: Fiona Lin. Description: Superorganism live in performance. Why is Oxford always the end of the road? The Magic Gang finished their tour here earlier this month. IDLES played their last UK date here last night before Superorganism concluded their own touring stint at this wondrous city of the dry-heaving spires. The boring answer […]
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Image Credit: Matt Crockett. Description: the central cast of The Band. Jukebox musicals, the idea of incorporating the music of an artist or a band into a show, has had a lot of success, from Mamma Mia to The Jersey Boys. However, The Band, using the music of Take That, is unlike these others, offering […]
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures. Description: Mike Myers’ mask in Halloween. The recently released Halloween is the eleventh film in the much-maligned franchise and the second reboot, so when production was first announced back in 2017, it is safe to say that I kept my expectations in check. For once though, such cynicism proved unnecessary. General […]
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Image credit: Paul Hudson. Description: Public Service Broadcasting in performance. For those of us still reeling from Every Valley, getting news of Public Service Broadcasting’s new EP was like a punch in the face from the muse herself. White Star Liner is PSB’s second EP and tackles the Titanic, both semi-literally and metaphorically. It’s undeniable […]
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Image Credit: Netflix. Description: poster for Better Call Saul season 4. Major spoilers for Better Call Saul Season 3. Although the ordinary Netflix formula of releasing an entire series in one go remains pretty satisfying, the company has made a wise choice to continue releasing one episode of Better Call Saul each week. Much as […]
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Image Credits: Netflix. Description: the poster for BoJack Horseman season 5. “How do you make something right when you’ve made it so wrong you can never go back?” This is a recurring line in the new season five of BoJack Horseman, an animated adult comedy show about a washed-up actor who struggles with addiction, childhood […]
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Image courtesy of the Oxford Playhouse. Adapted from the Oscar-winning original film, Shakespeare in Love took to the Oxford Playhouse stage for a comedic take on how one of the world’s most famous plays came to be. Utilizing how little is known about this famous writer, the story imagines William Shakespeare as he struggles to […]
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Image credit: Black Peaks/Rise Records. Description: album cover of ‘All That Divides’. Black Peaks’ first album Statues, released in 2016, was one of the best debuts in rock music for at least a decade. Songs including Glass Built Castles and Saviour brought an explosive energy that, paired together with the band’s talented technical ability, made […]
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Image credit: Alexander Kellner. Description: Tom Grennan in performance. Finally. There’s some autumnal chill in the air, and that weird mildness has gone. I only fully appreciate this once my glasses steam up instantly upon entry to a packed O2 Academy that’s brewing in body heat. This show has been sold out for months. Tom […]
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures Before we begin this review, a major pinch of salt. As someone who once read every Apollo mission’s Wikipedia entry, I may be a little bit obsessed with the Space Race. Anyway, First Man is the latest from Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle, on the back of their success with La […]
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Image Credit: Steve Pierce Coming out of the theatre on Tuesday night, the only word I could use to explain how I felt was ‘shell-shocked’. Nice Guy, a new musical about domestic abuse written by Sam Norman and Aaron King, manages to evoke real feelings of trauma in its audience, giving a small, yet important, […]
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Image Credit: Netflix. Description: Jonah Hill and Emma Stone in MANIAC Jonah Hill and Emma Stone have come a long way since they starred together in Superbad. The new Netflix Original series MANIAC is a show with a special type of humor that’s both ridiculous and satirical. In the very first minute the narrator opens […]
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Image Credit: Elle Styler. Description: a statue looks over the audience in the Old Schools quad. Oxford summers can be a real pain for those who don’t vacate the city to return to family homes—the lack of personal space on the High Street, an impossible task of finding a café seat, and all the while […]
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Image Credit: Rachel Rowlands The OxStu team received a free experience of the room for a press day Last week, The OxStu editorial team took on it’s greatest challenge of the term so far-no, not Cherwell, but the Blackbeard’s Treasure room of the new Escape Hunt in the Westgate. After a few false starts finding […]
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There is less than a month left to view the Bodleian Libraries’ once-in-a-generation exhibition, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth, which closes on Sunday 28 October. Since it opened on June 1st, the exhibition has welcomed over 100,000 visitors from around the world, making it the Bodleian’s most popular summer exhibition to date. Presenting the most extensive […]
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It’s not like I was blown away or anything. It wasn’t as if my sense of self was uproariously dismantled and reformed by the hollering beauty of guitars and drums raining down from the heavens. You know, those ol’ “that gig changed my life” cliches. It’s just that The Magic Gang are good. Very good. […]
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Image Credit: Sony You probably know the story by now. Sony, after the box office failure of The Amazing Spiderman 2, sent their webbed hero over to Marvel Studios, where he’s currently enjoying being part of the Avengers, stopping villains, and also “not feeling so good”. However, Sony still maintains the rights to both Spiderman […]
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Featuring: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Queens of the Stone Age, Jack White, Gorillaz, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, The Vaccines, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Courteeners, The Script, The Kooks Flight Facilities, David Byrne We say we go to festivals for the acts. (‘The line-up looks sick, honestly mate. Noel’s there. Got any papers?’) […]
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