Jasper Rees
Contributor at Freelance
Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood out in all formats. Victoria Wood Unseen On TV (ed) now in p'back. Chunky (sort of ed) out in hardback.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Jasper Rees
That Carême worked for Talleyrand (Jérémie Renier) is the drama's core ingredient. For the grandmaster of chicanery, he cooks up a storm to achieve political goals: please Bonaparte, sway the exiled Louis XVIII, send a coded message to a political prisoner. There's even a cooking compo which is essentially MasterChef in perruques. As a barely glimpsed Napoleon gears up to be crowned emperor, the plot pouts and schemes through a maze of interpersonal twists and geopolitical turns.
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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Jenny McCartney |Jasper Rees
If you would like to see that rarest of endangered species — a smart, witty and original 90-minute thriller aimed at adults — then stop reading this review immediately and go and see Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. It is a film that is probably best enjoyed by going in entirely blind, where the bare bones of the premise, revolving around a husband-and-wife pair of British spies who find themselves under suspicion of treachery, possibly by one another, is all you need to know.
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2 months ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Jasper Rees
Between 2015 and 2020 Sarah Phelps dramatised five stories by Agatha Christie for the BBC. The results were stylish, steamy and lavishly well cast. In Towards Zero (BBC One) the adaptation duties have been handed on to Rachel Bennette, who takes charge of a double murder in a posh pile on the Devon coast, but we remain very much in Phelpsland. As in Ordeal by Innocence and The Pale Horse, this is richly handsome to look at.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
metacritic.com | Carol Midgley |Lucy Mangan |Jasper Rees |James Hibbs
The final instalment in the quartet, which plays out as a courtroom drama, lacks something of the vital intimacy of Best Interests’ early moments. But the writing is humane throughout, managing to stay witty and lively, even as the gut-wrenching power of the story encroaches. Read More
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Jan 10, 2025 |
msn.com | Jasper Rees
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