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  • 5th October 2023
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·2nd April 2018

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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...
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·25th September 2012

A Tale of Two Qualities: King Lear, The Almeida

  King Lear at the Almeida Theatre is exactly the kind of play that makes one realise the futility of...
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·17th February 2019

Review: Made in Dagenham at the Oxford Playhouse

Leonie James
This should have been an excellent production. The sets were wonderful, the costumes spectacular and the cast gave it their...
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·1st December 2015

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·20th February 2017

Review: ‘Degas to Picasso’ at the Ashmolean

Holly Kelsey
The Ashmolean’s new feature exhibition Degas to Picasso aims to chart over a century’s worth of artistic change in the...
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·1st March 2013

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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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·3rd February 2016

Heavy Petting – A Review

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·24th May 2016

TV Feature: ‘Peaky Blinders’ Review

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·30th October 2014

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·22nd November 2012

For consistency I gasped: Jane Eyre at the Simpkins Lee

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·10th November 2017

Paddington 2 Review

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·21st March 2015

Review: Chappie

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·4th November 2016

Liu Dan: New Landscapes and Old Masters

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