RoleSenior Editor
LocationWest Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ExpertiseEditorial, Film and TV, News, Entertainment, K-Drama, Pop Culture, Rotten Tomatoes Approved, Editorial
Contribution6738 articles published since November 2017

Jonathon Wilson

Jonathon Wilson is one of Ready Steady Cut’s co-founders and has been an instrumental member of the team since its inception in 2017, with a leading role as Senior Editor.

After leaving college, Jonathon ventured into freelance writing to develop a portfolio. He was commissioned in multiple digital and print magazines for fiction and criticism before eventually pivoting to a more managerial role as the News Editor of a video game start-up (Pixels or Death).

In 2015, Jonathon published his first book, “Disfigured,” which is available digitally on Amazon.

Since helping to establish Ready Steady Cut in 2017, Jonathon has remained involved in all aspects of the site’s operation, mainly dedicated to its content output. He remains one of its primary Entertainment writers while also functioning as our dedicated Commissioning Editor, publishing over 6,500 articles. His coverage includes film, TV, entertainment, anime, true crime, and K-drama.

Jonathon’s experience and expertise in contemporary media allow him to assist our writers in producing the highest quality content tailored for savvy modern audiences.

Jonathon was also individually approved for Rotten Tomatoes and gained that status in June 2020: here is his Rotten Tomatoes Profile.

Articles by Jonathon Wilson

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is the Best Streaming Movie of the Year (For Now)

March 28 2026

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is the rare movie that is better in practice than it is on paper. Between the fussy title...

‘Primate’ Is Startlingly Nasty and Impressively Stupid Chimp-Horror Fun

March 27 2026

You’re not supposed to root for the killer in slasher movies, or perhaps more accurately, you’re not supposed to admit that’s what you’re doing. But...

‘Hoppers’ Is An Exercise In Empathy That We Could All Learn Something From

March 27 2026

Maybe it’s just me, but a Pixar movie release doesn’t seem as big of a deal as it once did. Hoppers is simultaneously validating (nobody...

‘Scream 7’ Isn’t As Bad You’ve Been Told… But It Isn’t Very Good Either

March 27 2026

It is basically inarguable at this point that the circumstances surrounding the production of Scream 7 have coloured its critical reception to a not-insignificant degree....

‘Bodycam’ Has A Novel Premise But Goes Wildly Off the Rails

March 27 2026

Immediacy is in vogue at the moment, and there’s nothing more immediate than a first-person perspective, something that video games have understood forever but that...

‘Shelter’ Is Mediocre Enough to Make Even Jason Statham Boring

March 27 2026

I’ve argued in favour of typecasting before, and Jason Statham is one of my go-to examples of actors who do one thing well enough that...

‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Is the Worse Movie Everyone Expected Its Predecessor to Be

March 27 2026

The thing that worked about Greenland was that it was an anti-disaster movie. It promised a world-ending calamity and eventually delivered it, but the impact...

‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – A Change Of Scenery Doesn’t Help

March 27 2026

With The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 transferring a chunk of its action to Marseille in Episode 6, that gives it the rare distinction of...

‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Back to the Beginning

March 27 2026

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters trades in the giant monster action — mostly — for more focused character work in “Furusato”, and it’s a gamble that doesn’t...

‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap – There’s Something In the Air

March 27 2026

When even Dana is crying, you know something is going badly wrong in The Pitt. But that feeling of mounting dread which has characterised Season 2...

Let’s Unpack the Demented ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Ending

March 26 2026

You can say a lot of things about the Duffer Brothers’ latest Netflix project, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, but you can’t say...

‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Is A Bit Too Weird For Its Own Good

March 26 2026

With all the cache that the Duffer brothers have built up after the success of Stranger Things – a somewhat controversial ending notwithstanding – you...

‘Pretty Lethal’ Has One of the Best Action Scenes of the Year… But Very Little Else

March 25 2026

To be clear, there’s a third-act action sequence in Pretty Lethal that is one of the year’s best, and will likely remain so. It’s a...

‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – New York Is Back

March 25 2026

“New York is back,” says a happy bystander in the Season 2 premiere of Daredevil: Born Again, in one of those boots-on-the-ground handheld interstitials from BB Urich that the first season used to take the political temperature.

‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 3 Recap – With Friends Like These

March 25 2026

"I'm a lot of things. I'm not a monster," says Robert in Episode 3 of Imperfect Women, and it's perhaps the least convincing thing anyone has ever said.

‘Shrinking’ Season 3, Episode 9 Recap – Harrison Ford Steals the Show

March 25 2026

Even at its worst, Shrinking is still better than most dramedies... ever, really, which is pretty high praise. Season 3 has already threatened to fall into a bit of a holding pattern once or twice, and it does so again for most of Episode 9, which is titled "Daddy Issues" because it finally finds Jimmy's dad, Randy, sticking around for a full episode.

‘The Faithful: Women of the Bible’ Episodes 1 & 2 Recap – From a Different Point Of View

March 24 2026

Fox’s three-part television event The Faithful: Women of the Bible works on the fairly understandable operating principle that religion is a bit sexist and could do with a redo.

‘Memory of a Killer’ Episode 8 Recap – The Ferryman Finally Unmasked

March 24 2026

So, Memory of a Killer has finally revealed its season-long mystery, and more importantly, supplied a pretty relatable motivation for why the Ferryman has had...

‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ Episode 6 Recap – It Can Be A Whodunit Too!

March 24 2026

At first blush, “Dr. Watson’s Dad” is a gimmick episode. It takes the usual format of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins and reworks...

‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap – The Best Hour of the Season

March 23 2026

Part of the reason I get so frustrated with Watson is that when it’s firing on all cylinders, it has the potential to deliver truly...