Reviews by Jack Lint
Oxford Z-A - 1000 Years of History in 26 Letters
Jack Lint
The Oxford Z-A is a collaboration between Richard O. Smith (comedian, scriptwriter, and author, whose words have appeared on Radio 4’s The Now Show, and The News Quiz) and Korky Paul (an ...
5 years ago
Oxford Z-A - 1000 Years of History in 26 Letters
Daily Info's Guide to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse
Jack Lint
Where to go in Oxford (in the zombie apocalypse)
So you're in Oxford, and you're watching the news. The man behind the desk shuffles his papers. It's the moment we all dreaded. No, Boris Johnson ...
9 years ago
Daily Info's Guide to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse
Slow West [15]
Jack Lint
The world of Slow West is an impressive one. It's a place where violence happens, but it's also a precise collection of colours and shapes. Like a laser-quest designed by Wes Anderson. The action ...
11 years ago
Slow West [15]
Inside Out [U]
Jack Lint
Inside Out follows the archetypal Pixar formula: something goes wrong, and an ensemble cast of brightly-coloured small things with big personalities try to sort it out. While A Bug's Life and Toy ...
11 years ago
Inside Out [U]
Clubbercise
Jack Lint
Clubbercise is, technically an exercise class, but it’s really, really fun. I can’t stress that enough. It’s incredibly fun. Suspiciously fun. And there are a couple of things which set it ...
11 years ago
Clubbercise
London Road [15]
Jack Lint
London Road is many things: a musical, a film starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Coleman, and a verbatim exploration of how a community rebuilds itself after tragedy. The result is an interesting ...
11 years ago
London Road [15]
Mad Max: Fury Road [15]
Jack Lint
In the recent Spongebob film, Mister Krabs introduces the end of the world thus: "Welcome to the apocalypse. I hope you like leather". Mad Max likes leather. And cars, and explosions. And it's ...
11 years ago
Mad Max: Fury Road [15]
George's Jamboree of Music, Poetry & Simon Munnery + other guests
Jack Lint
George's Jamboree is a monthly cabaret night - a mixture of music, comedy, and poetry - hosted at the Jam Factory. George Chopping, poet, raconteur, and compère, got the night off to a flying start ...
11 years ago
George's Jamboree of Music, Poetry & Simon Munnery + other guests
Avengers: Age of Ultron [12A]
Jack Lint
Watching the latest Avengers film might be compared to setting fire to a big bag of fireworks - sure, you know it's going to be spectacular, and you can be pretty sure that someone will get hurt ...
11 years ago
Avengers: Age of Ultron [12A]
Jonny & the Baptists Rock the Vote
Jack Lint
Fresh from a stint in America, (land of the free, home of privatised healthcare), Jonny and the Baptists kicked off their Rock the Vote tour in Oxford, quite appropriately, on the night of the ...
11 years ago
Jonny & the Baptists Rock the Vote
Return To The Forbidden Planet
Jack Lint
Return to the Forbidden Planet, based on the 1956 sci-fi film ‘The Forbidden Planet’, itself based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest (itself thought to be based on Erasmus’ Naufragium) is now ...
11 years ago
Return To The Forbidden Planet
Draw Me A Story
Jack Lint
To describe Draw Me a Story as an 'exhibition' doesn't do it justice. Yes, it takes place in a white-washed room, and, yes, there are pictures on the walls - a collection of illustrations from both ...
11 years ago
Draw Me A Story
Big Hero 6 [PG]
Jack Lint
From WOPR to Wall-E, Number 5 to Nexus-7s, there’s quite a crowded pantheon of robots in cinema. (I like to imagine that it’s rather rowdy, with C-3PO accidentally bumping into the T-800, the ...
11 years ago
Big Hero 6 [PG]
Jupiter Ascending [12A]
Jack Lint
Superficially, Jupiter Ascending has all the ingredients for a fun bit of sci-fi nonsense. Jupiter Jones, downtrodden Earth-cleaner, one day discovers that by sharing a genetic resemblance to a dead ...
11 years ago
Jupiter Ascending [12A]
Love is Enough- William Morris & Andy Warhol curated by Jeremy Deller
Jack Lint
The first thing that visitors see upon entering 'Love is Enough' is a large, ornate tapestry (The Attainment of the Holy Grail , Morris and Co. 1895-6). At almost seven metres long, with all of the ...
11 years ago
Love is Enough- William Morris & Andy Warhol curated by Jeremy Deller
Dahling You Were Marvellous!
Jack Lint
“Normally on the first night the set falls over...”
Published in 1994, Dahling You Were Marvellous attempts, in the words of the author, “to parody those precious dahlings and those ...
11 years ago
Dahling You Were Marvellous!
The White Rabbit
Jack Lint
As someone on a gluten-free diet*, pizza is one of those rarities that is often craved and seldom enjoyed. Supermarkets have, of course, attempted to create and market a substitute - but even the ...
11 years ago
The White Rabbit
