tue 19/03/2024

Jasper Rees

Jasper Rees's picture
Bio
Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins

Articles By Jasper Rees

Being Blacker, BBC Two review - absorbing film about family, culture and society

Read more...

Matthew Sweet: Operation Chaos review - paranoia and insanity in the Cold War

Read more...

Wonder Wheel review - Woody Allen and Kate Winslet channel O'Neill

Read more...

Collateral, series finale, BBC Two - Carey Mulligan hares to the finish

Read more...

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story review - Hollywood's brainiest beauty

Read more...

theartsdesk in Minsk: feasting with Belarus Free Theatre

Read more...

Mum, BBC Two, series 2 review - Lesley Manville is a discreet delight

Read more...

Hold the Sunset, BBC One, review - this is an ex-sitcom

Read more...

Trauma, ITV, review - surgically imprecise revenge drama

Read more...

DVD/Blu-ray: Blade Runner 2049

Read more...

The Mercy review - Colin Firth's leaking vessel

Read more...

John Mahoney: 'I wanted to be like everybody else'

Read more...

Joe Dunthorne: The Adulterants review - a richly illuminating comedy of disappointment

Read more...

Daniel Day-Lewis: 'I'm quite good at mending things'

Read more...

Inside No 9, series 4, BBC Two review - laughter in the dark

Read more...

Downsizing review - little things please little

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Blu-ray: Beautiful Thing

Beautiful Thing’s opening scene plays out like a sweary take on Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl, Meera Syal’s potty-mouthed PE...

Manhunt, Apple TV+ review - all the President's men

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on 14 April 1865, five days after General Robert E Lee’s surrender at Appomatox signalled the end of...

Bevan, Williams, BBCSO, MacMillan, Barbican review - inspira...

It began with the tolling of a lone bell and ended in a transcendent blaze of golden light. The UK premiere of James MacMillan’s Fiat Lux...

Salome, Irish National Opera review - imaginatively charted...

“Based on the play by Oscar Wilde,” declared publicity on Dublin buses and buildings, reminding opera-cautious citizens that the poet whose text...

Album: Elbow - Audio Vertigo

On this, their 10th album, the melodious...

First Person: conductor Peter Whelan on coming full circle w...

There's something undeniable about the way music can weave itself into the fabric of our lives, shaping our passions and leaving an indelible...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Mystic Tide - Frustration

Crashing chords are followed by a spindly, untrammelled solo guitar. After this subsides, the singer lays out the issue: “I try, I cry, I just can...

Hughes, SCO, Kuusisto, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh review - Clyn...

Most concert promoters will tell you that contemporary music tends to be, to put it politely, a tricky sell, which is one of the reasons why it’s...

The New Boy review - a mystical take on Australia's tre...

This is writer-director Warwick Thornton’s third...