Jasper Rees

The prodigal daughter: Ellie Kendrick as Clover in The Levelling

Farming today

13 May 2017 9:00 am

There are bigger entities landing at your local multiplex this week. An ancient indestructible franchise is re-re-(re-)booted in Alien: Covenant.…

All the Raj: Gurinder Chadha’s ‘Viceroy’s House’

Parting shots

4 March 2017 9:00 am

Gurinder Chadha’s modern comedies have fun with cultural divides. Girls kick footballs in Bend It Like Beckham. A gaggle of…

All the Raj: Gurinder Chadha’s ‘Viceroy’s House’

Parting shots

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Gurinder Chadha’s modern comedies have fun with cultural divides. Girls kick footballs in Bend It Like Beckham. A gaggle of…

No peace, no pussy

3 December 2016 9:00 am

The bizarro concept of a ‘President-elect Trump’ came to pass despite the wishes, clearly stated on the stump, of the…

Greece is the word: Teyonah Parris as Lysistrata in ‘Chi-Raq’

No peace, no pussy

1 December 2016 3:00 pm

The bizarro concept of a ‘President-elect Trump’ came to pass despite the wishes, clearly stated on the stump, of the…

Heaven knows they’re miserable now

5 November 2016 9:00 am

The Light Between Oceans is one of those films that comes issued with a handy how-to-use manual. Shudder as hero…

To the lighthouse: Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander in ‘The Light Between Oceans’

Heaven knows they’re miserable now

3 November 2016 3:00 pm

The Light Between Oceans is one of those films that comes issued with a handy how-to-use manual. Shudder as hero…

Red hot

27 August 2016 9:00 am

Everything about Julieta feels totally Almodóvarian. It’s a family saga that smoothly blends tragedy and levity, with exquisite performances from…

Almodóvar’s loving gaze: Emma Suárez as Julieta

Red hot

25 August 2016 1:00 pm

Everything about Julieta feels totally Almodóvarian. It’s a family saga that smoothly blends tragedy and levity, with exquisite performances from…

Paean to the Starman

30 July 2016 9:00 am

On 11 January 2016 Paul Morley was awoken by an urgent voicemail from the Today Programme. Could he talk about…

Dahl by Spielberg

23 July 2016 9:00 am

Nobody who witnessed it can have forgotten Mark Rylance summoning giants to his aid in Jerusalem. As Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,…

Dahl by Spielberg

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

Nobody who witnessed it can have forgotten Mark Rylance summoning giants to his aid in Jerusalem. As Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,…

A side order of extra Marmite comes in the considerable silhouette of Russell Crowe as Jackson Healy

Punchlines and punches

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Regular filmgoers must be losing count of the Rabelaisian revelries they’ve been invited to of late. You may recognise the…

Dark magus: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in ‘Miles Ahead’

‘Do black movies really not sell?’

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

The musical biopic is a staple of the Hollywood economy. Like an Airfix model kit it comes with the necessary…

The outsiders: Kalieaswari Srinivasan (Yalini), Claudine Vinasithamby (Illayaal), Jesuthasan Antonythasan (Dheepan)

Bitter sweet

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

The French master film-maker Jacques Audiard has never been anywhere near Hollywood plot school. His films contain gathering menace —…

Tim Roth in ‘Chronic’, a morality tale about the care industry

Touching the void

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

Scholarly filmgoers may recall a movement that sprouted from Danish soil called Dogme 95. It worked to a Spartan set…

Towering will-o’-the-wisp: Agyness Deyn as Chris Guthrie

The still point

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song is the best-remembered title of a short career. Born in 1901, he was dead by…

The man who wouldn’t be king

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Not that long ago the BBC trumpeted a new Stakhanovite project to big up the arts in its many and…

Hunted blows a fresh breeze through the stale world of reality TV

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

Television used to employ entertainers to entertain the public. Back then you could count the channels on the fingers of…

Michael Fassbender: animal magnetism but no clue as to what oils Macbeth’s cogs

Speech impediment

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

Who goes to big-screen Shakespeare? Not theatre-goers much, and with reason. Apart from the odd corker by Kurosawa, arguably Olivier…

Still from the documentary ‘Palio’: a medieval rite at once nonsensical and puerile, and yet profoundly alive and meaningful

There will be blood

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

If you don’t want to spend hundreds of euros on a good seat, the best place to watch the Palio…

Joel Edgerton in The Gift

The Trump doctrine

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

Were you ever not very nice at school? A bit of a tosspot to others, perhaps. Ever so slightly a…

Sexed-up pacifism

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

Big-screen documentaries never change the world. Blackfish has not shortened the queues to see maltreated killer whales leap through hoops…

Seeking a berth in Valhalla: Nicholas Hoult as Nux in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

To the maddest max

14 May 2015 1:00 pm

No one goes slack-jawed in wonder at the movies any more. In our cyber-enabled times, kid designers can mega-pixelate any…

Rock bottom

7 May 2015 1:00 pm

The oeuvre of Chris Rock may not be fully known in this parish. He was the African-American stand-up who made…