Articles by Jonathon Wilson
The Bonfire of Destiny Season 1 Review: New Netflix Series Explores the Aftermath Of A Real-Life Tragedy
In 1897, at the Bazar de la Charité, an annual charity event organized by the French Catholic aristocracy in Paris, there was a fire. A...
‘Fast & Furious: Spy Racers’ Review: The Franchise As It Was Always Intended To Be
For a long time now, the Fast Franchise has been operating with a cartoon understanding of continuity, logic, and physics, so something like Fast & Furious: Spy...
Carole & Tuesday Part 2 Review: Can’t Stop The Music
This review of Carole & Tuesday Part 2 is spoiler-free. After concluding its Japanese broadcast, the second half of Motonobu Hori and Shinichiro Watanabe’s original...
A Hidden Life Review: Malick’s Ethereal Stylings Undercut His Return to Narrative
After spending the entirety of the 2010s thus far perfecting what I suppose can now be called his mid-to-late career style on cinematic anti-narrative soulful...
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Second Opinion: Ending the Saga With A Shrug
I suppose we were always going to end up here. After the vitriolic backlash toward Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi and the announcement of J.J....
Ultraviolet Season 2 Review: A Step Down From Its Predecessor
This review of Ultraviolet Season 2 (Netflix) is spoiler-free. I managed to annoy a surprising number of people by slagging off the first season of...
The Witcher Recap: You Can Always Rely On Destiny
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 8, “Much More”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
The Witcher Recap: How It Really Happened
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 7, “Before A Fall”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by...
The Witcher Recap: The Way of the Dragon
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 6, “Rare Species”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
The Witcher Recap: Be Careful What You Wish For
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 5, “Bottled Appetites”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
The Witcher Recap: Everybody Likes Surprises
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 4, “Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous...
The Witcher Recap: Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 3, “Betrayer Moon”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
The Witcher Recap: What’s In A Name?
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 2, “Four Marks”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
The Witcher Recap: The Lesser of Two Evils
This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 1, “The End’s Beginning”, contains spoilers. You can check out our spoiler-free thoughts on the full season...
The Witcher Season 1 Review: Netflix Finally Has Its Epic Fantasy Series
This review of The Witcher (Netflix) Season 1 is spoiler-free. Check the bottom of this article for a full episode guide including in-depth recaps of...
Don’t F*ck With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer Review
Don’t F*ck With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer (Netflix) debuted on December 18, 2019. As a cat owner, I can tell you with some degree...
Mr Robot Recap: Make Your Own Kind of Music
This recap of Mr. Robot Season 4, Episode 11, “eXit”, contains spoilers. Mr. Robot has never been shy of its influences. In its first season,...
Hell on the Border Review: The True Story of a Pioneering Black Lawman
Proving that there are still some interesting stories to tell about the Wild West, writer/director Wes Miller’s Hell on the Border is the true tale...
‘The Great War’ Review: A WWI Drama With A Message Somehow Cheaper Than Its Budget
Steven Luke’s well-intentioned World War I drama The Great War has an always-obvious pocket-money budget, which can excuse a lot of its shortcomings, such as how...
6 Underground Review: The Most Michael Bay Movie Ever Made
The thing I like and admire about Michael Bay is that he doesn’t care what you think. And neither, apparently, does Netflix, who gave the...