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Peace Prize for peace not free speech

Kate Lomas challenges the Western hypocrisy in supporting the Nobel Committee Peace Prize award to Liu Xiaobo…

Keep Calm and Carry On

Finding stress relief on a student budget can be difficult - Lauren Martens finds new way of pretending that essay doesn't exist for half an hour.…

It certainly feels three days long…

by Tom Dunn More and more, it seems Paul Haggis simply struck lucky with Crash. Worthy and self-righteous, it’s a tone all of his films seem to carry, and yet…

Black Swan is another feather in Aronofsky’s cap

Darren Aronofsky’s latest offering, Black Swan, provides an insight into an underappreciated art which demands absolute commitment from its participants…

Beginner’s Guide To… Slasher movies

We open on The Suburbs, a wholesome-looking slice of Americana. But wait! A killer is on the loose! He’s finally caught, and sent to an insane asylum. The townsfolk vow…

Love and other sedatives

by Morgan Davies There is very little indeed to recommend in Edward Zwick’s Love and Other Drugs. The audience gets the idea, rather depressingly, that there could have been a…

Artefact or artefiction?

Artist Marcus Cactus talks about faking it with Mark Callaghan. …

Crossing the Line

The Oxford Student comment team digests English politics, crossing party lines to bring you the real story. Each week they’ll discuss developments, extracting truth from the smooth rhetoric of politicians.…