James Ashworth
I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson’s work, I won’t lie. Bearing that in mind, I approached the cinema for...
King Lear at the Almeida Theatre is exactly the kind of play that makes one realise the futility of...
Leonie James
This should have been an excellent production. The sets were wonderful, the costumes spectacular and the cast gave it their...
William Shaw
Imagine Black Mirror as written by Samuel Beckett. Dark, clever and deeply emotional, ONLIFE tells the story of one man...
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Seb Braddock
The only bad thing about Lotta Sea Lice is in its prompting of a revival of that goddawful “Kurtney” Cobain...
Holly Kelsey
The Ashmolean’s new feature exhibition Degas to Picasso aims to chart over a century’s worth of artistic change in the...
Merlin Seller
Room after room of rough totems, thick cartouches and half-buried sarcophagi. Imagine yourself an archaeologist in dream-land, and you’re half-way...
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Larissa Pullen
There is an incredible amount of crazy energy brewing in a lesser-known corner of the local LA garage rock music...
Frey Kwa Hawking
The return of something resembling a legend, an institution, was heralded by the confidence of the classic opening and closing...
Carys Miller
Just three weeks into Trinity term and the BBC has once again decided to make it virtually impossible for me...
Ariane Laurent-Smith
Despite the name, The Oxford Wine Café serves decent coffee. The mocha is really sweet, definitely suffering from a bit...
William Aslet
✮✮✮✮✮ You would be hard pressed to find a comedy blacker than Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. It is a...
James Ashworth
Image Credit: Flickr – Brickset (CC BY 2.0) After fourteen years, and an intervening thirteen films, including two Toy Story,...
Timothy Bano
Based on Polly Teale’s admirable adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel, this production was a mixed bag. Despite some strong points,...
James Ashworth
Image Credit: aitoff (CC0) With the runaway success of the original Paddington, it was always a matter of time before...
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It is the plight of the reviewer that, even as you sit and watch a film universally praised by critics,...
Thomas Bannatyne
Neill Blomkamp’s roots as a visual effects artist have always been clear in his directorial work. His aliens and robots...
Beverley Noble
Liu Dan is considered one of China’s most famous living artists, and is renowned for his use of traditional techniques...
I enjoy kids’ movies: they have the freedom to create fantastic worlds which appeal to both adults and children. However,...
