Jonathon Wilson

This review of the Apple TV+ film Swan Song (2021) does not contain spoilers.  Benjamin Cleary’s debut feature Swan Song is set in a futuristic setting, where...

Ciri’s lineage is intimately tied to her powers and importance in The Witcher Season 2, and a significant component is the idea that she is possessed...

Throughout The Witcher Season 2, one of the central dramatic questions is why, exactly, Ciri is of such great importance to so many people. And while we...

In the third episode of The Witcher Season 2, “What Is Lost”, Stregobor tries to justify his crusade against Yennefer and her quarter-elf heritage by telling the...

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 8, “Family”, contains spoilers, including a discussion of the Witcher Season 2 ending. We’ve made it, folks, to...

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 7, “Voleth Meir”, contains spoilers. Following on from the end of the previous episode, Ciri is gone....

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 6, “Dear Friend…”, contains spoilers. I forgot to mention this in my recap of the previous episode,...

This recap of Apple TV+s Dickinson season 3, episode 9, “Grief is a Mouse,” contains spoilers.  Read the recap of the previous episode. After last...

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 5, “Turn Your Back”, contains spoilers. “Turn Your Back” pulls the age-old trick of showing prior events...

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 4, “Redanian Intelligence”, contains spoilers. As is becoming a trend, “Redanian Intelligence” runs for the most part...

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 3, “What Is Lost”, contains spoilers. The problem with ancient keeps, central heating notwithstanding, is that they...

In the world of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher stories, the eponymous monster hunters are mutants who make a hardscrabble living by vanquishing monsters. It’s a rough...

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 2, “Kaer Morhen”, contains spoilers. “Kaer Morhen” is divided, broadly, into two parallel plot strands, and it...

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 1, “A Grain of Truth”, contains spoilers. Of course, it opens with a monster killing a bunch...

Much of The Witcher’s first season was cribbed from The Last Wish, the first collection of short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski. And while The Witcher...

This review of the Netflix documentary Puff: Wonders of the Reef does not contain any spoilers With narration from Rose Byrne, Puff: Wonders of the...

This story recap will obviously contain massive spoilers for what happened in The Witcher Season 1. As I said in my spoiler-free review of The...

This review of The Witcher Season 2 is spoiler-free. The Witcher’s success wasn’t a surprise. Despite the historic tendency of video game adaptations to be...

Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian drama The Hand of God ended on an ambiguous note of Fabietto boarding a train to Rome. In his journey, the train...

One of the characters of the movie The Hand of God asks the protagonist, “Do you know how many stories there are in this city?...