Jonathon Wilson

It’s almost a little redundant to explain the ending of Ballerina (2023), a South Korean action-thriller streaming on Netflix with a plot so thin that...

“Style over substance” is a cliché if ever there was one, and contrary to popular belief, critics – the decent ones, anyway – like to...

Everything Now is a sensitive, nuanced Netflix teen drama about a young girl named Mia Polanco who returns to school after a 7-month stint in...

There are lots of things that Netflix never gets credit for, but perhaps the most significant is its increasing library of forward-thinking teen dramas. Sure,...

You don’t get a nickname like “The Swiss Machine” for nothing, and record-breaking solo alpinist Ueli Steck earned the moniker and then some. One of...

After a very confident pilot episode, The Irrational returns to NBC for “Dead Woman Walking”, which boasts a slightly more complex case of the week,...

Rarely will you ever come across a premise and a protagonist as finely suited to a procedural as in NBC’s The Irrational, a clever-clogs mystery...

57 Seconds is a sci-fi B-movie starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman that is about a very low-key version of time travel. Given how famously...

57 Seconds is the title of a 2023 sci-fi straight-to-digital B-movie starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman, of all people, but it’s also roughly how...

“La Dame de Fer” is, I think, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon finally taking the gloves off a little. Sure, previous installments have had their...

Poison is the fourth and final short film directed by Wes Anderson for Netflix, each adapting one of Roald Dahl’s lesser-known short stories from a back...

Poison, the fourth and final installment in Wes Anderson’s collection of short films adapting Roald Dahl’s stories for Netflix, is ostensibly about a snake. But...

The Rat Catcher is weird even by the standards of both Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl, and even within the context of the collection of...

The third short film in Wes Anderson’s collection of Roald Dahl adaptations for Netflix is the deliberately idiosyncratic The Rat Catcher, a dark descent into...

The second of four short films from Wes Anderson adapting the stories of Roald Dahl for Netflix, The Swan is a sweet-looking but ultimately quite...

The Swan is the second of four Wes Anderson short films adapted for Netflix from the back catalog of Roald Dahl, which the streamer paid...

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar combines the best of both Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson in a 40-minute Netflix short. The first of four...

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, adapted from the same-titled short story by Roald Dahl and streaming on Netflix, condenses Wes Anderson’s trademark stylistic quirks...

The eight-episode Netflix series Choona has all the hallmarks of a classic heist thriller. It’s an exciting caper blending humor and excellent character development as...

Everybody loves a heist, not least the good folks at Netflix. The streamer has been pulling a fast one on consumer’s wallets with price hikes...