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Image Description: A black and white photograph of Mitski, who recently released ‘Love Me More.’ On January 12, 2022, Mitski released another track for upcoming album Laurel Hell, titled ‘Love Me More.’ The song is the fourth release of the album, which is set to come out on February 4th, 2022. ‘Love Me More’ is […]
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Image description: Various gaming controls scattered on a surface DANIIL DANKOVSKY’S FUN STEPPE VACATION WAS JUST THE TUTORIAL FOR ARTEMY BURAKH’S TORMENTOUS NIGHTMARE What is Pathologic? Have I played it? Will I play it? Do I want to play it? Will I watch and rewatch a 130-minute YouTube video about it and decide it’s my […]
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Image description: Netflix logo on a TV with a mug in the foreground Six hours, to any Oxford student, sounds like a massive amount of time. In six hours you can do a decent amount of pre-reading, draft an essay or complete a couple of questions on your problem sheets. Six hours of sleep on […]
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Image description: The cast sat outside on a pavement Through all my dark internet and backdoor connections (the Entertainment section Gmail), I wangled myself, where many others have failed since it sold out faster than you could say “New Labour”, a ticket, and I was very glad I did. The early slot show of the […]
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Image Description: the four main characters in black and white with the word “Quartet” above their heads. I walked into Quartet with little to no idea of what the plot was supposed to be (don’t judge me: I had an essay crisis), so I was intrigued to see what would be behind all the black […]
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Image description: Destination Star Trek London: 5 Star Trek captains – Scott Bakula, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Patrick Stewart and William Shatner Last weekend I took a slight foray into watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Aside from failing to develop any lasting interest beyond the first episode, what I did briefly notice was almost […]
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Image description: An image of Broad Street, Oxford I always find advice on how to maintain a work-life balance and how to manage your time kind of pointless. How can someone give general advice to a group of people about managing time when the workloads of the students within that group are incredibly diverse and […]
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Image description: several people holding glasses of red wine Is it weird to go wine tasting on a random Thursday halfway through term? Yes. But as someone who likes drinking wine and had little else to do on a Thursday except get started on next week’s reading, I decided to try it. Disclaimer: I’d never […]
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Image description: Timothee Chamalet and Rebecca Ferguson staring into the dusty distance in the film Dune Warning: Spoilers ahead! I must admit that I was really excited for the new Dune film. Stellar cast, excellent source material, and a range of settings that lends itself to expansive cinematography, taking full advantage of recent developments in […]
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Image Description: Black and white close up of Adele’s side profile looking to the left. On Thursday night, Adele Adkins released her first single in six years, an insight into her upcoming album, 30. There are countless other articles out there speculating about exactly what her reasons for writing Easy On Me were, and about […]
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Image description: a coffee mug on top of a tablecloth in the sunlight A good coffee is something like alchemy — people in the industry obsess over incremental adjustments in roasting, dosage, grind size, extraction rate, and a myriad of other factors which dramatically change the drinking experience. I’ve had coffees that tasted like blueberry […]
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Image description: a pasta dish at Bella Italia Bella Italia is situated in the heart of Oxford’s “Italian District” – flanked by Franco Manca, Ask Italian, and Zizzi just a bit further down the road, it might not always stand out as an obvious choice for your pizza fix. Except now, I have a great […]
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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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