Jonathon Wilson

All throughout Night In Paradise, there’s never any suggestion that there’s going to be a happy ending. Likewise, you never get the sense that there...

Setting a gritty, bloodthirsty crime drama on the idyllic island of Jeju is the first of many idiosyncrasies in Park Hoon-jung’s Night in Paradise (also...

This review of The Way of the Househusband is spoiler-free. Adapted from Kousuke Oono’s manga series, The Way of the Househusband, now streaming on Netflix,...

This recap of New Amsterdam season 3, episode 6, “Why Not Yesterday”, contains spoilers. Solving seemingly impossible problems is something of a special skill for...

This recap of Snabba Cash season 1, episode 6, “Making Money is Never Bad!”, contains spoilers. It also includes a discussion of the Snabba Cash...

This review of Snabba Cash season 1 is spoiler-free. The writing of Jens Lapidus in the novel Snabba Cash, or Easy Money, and several subsequent...

This review of The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You is spoiler-free. The Last Kids on Earth is a weird franchise. It seems to...

This recap of Debris season 1, episode 6, “Supernova”, contains spoilers. The truth will set you free, or so the saying goes, but it hardly...

This recap of Pennyworth season 2, episode 9, “Paradise Lost”, contains spoilers. You’ll recall that in the previous episode of Epix’s Pennyworth, things weren’t looking...

This review of Just Say Yes is spoiler-free. Despite only being released on Netflix this weekend, you’ve seen Just Say Yes before. It enthusiastically repackages...

The real selling point of Sylvie Verheyde’s interminable biographical drama Madame Claude is its basis in fact. The titular madame, Fernande Grudet, rose from a...

The smartest decision of Sylvie Verheyde’s Madame Claude, a telling of the rise and fall of Fernande Grudet, the owner of an influential brothel during...

This article contains major spoilers for the Sky High ending. In its two-hour runtime, it’s almost comical how much… stuff Sky High manages to chew...

This review of Sky High is spoiler-free. Sky High runs for two hours, and there’s a lot of movie crammed into that time. As soon as the pedal...

In many ways, Irul is a simple film. There are only three characters and one main setting, and the entire plot hinges on a single...

Irul is an actor’s showcase. Director Naseef Yusuf Izuddhin has assembled a triple-threat superstar tag-team of Malayalam actors to play the three characters in this...

This article contains major spoilers for the Concrete Cowboy ending. Adapted from Greg Neri’s 2011 novel Ghetto Cowboy, Ricky Staub’s impressive debut feature tells a...

This review of Prank Encounters Season 2 is spoiler-free. When Prank Encounters first debuted in 2019, it was met with a fair amount of controversy. It’s to...

This article contains major spoilers for the Tersanjung: The Movie ending. Streaming on Netflix from today, Tersanjung: The Movie is one of the best films of the...

This review of Tersanjung: The Movie is spoiler-free. The Indonesian movie scene is primarily known for horror and action, but recently the streaming giant has...