Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Budapest’ Review – Fails to Deliver for the Audience
Netflix’s Budapest tells the story of two lifelong friends who are fed up with the same old rat race. Acting as the office underdogs and...
Losers Season 1 Review
Sport is defined by its successes. To win is to gain everything: fortune, adulation, immortality. To lose, well that does not bear thinking about. Fans...
Northern Rescue Season 1 Review
John West (William Baldwin) is a search and rescue-er, the kind that rescues people after climbing accidents or the like, rather than an adventuring mouse....
‘River’s Edge’ (2018) | Netflix Film Review
Netflix, savvy as ever, is no stranger to the teen drama. Admittedly such things are usually laced with comedy or comic-book-y weirdness, as in Riverdale,...
Coiled Spring: An Interview with Jack Spring
Let’s face it, getting any film made is an achievement. Persuading the right people to part with large amounts of cash to back your vision...
‘Destination: Dewsbury’ | Film Review
You can check out our exclusive interview with the director of Destination: Dewsbury, Jack Spring, by clicking these words. Since moving into my thirties I...
‘Flesh City’ | Film Review
In Roger Ebert’s Little Rule Book, (which every aspiring film critic should read, by the way), he states that all good critics should be prepared...
‘Paris Is Us’ (‘Paris est à nous’) | Netflix Film Review
Paris Is Us has evolved from its early crowd-funded origins into an elegant feature depicting and exploring the obscurities that rear themselves in times of...
‘The Drug King’ | Netflix Film Review
Unimaginative title notwithstanding, Min-ho Woo’s The Drug King is nonetheless certain to find an audience on Netflix given how it falls right at the intersection of...
‘The Photographer of Mauthausen’ | Netflix Film Review
We live in the age of the selfie, a time where all of us carry cameras with us at all times and every conceivable moment...
‘Firebrand’ | Netflix Film Review
The cultural importance of Netflix can’t be understated, and it isn’t for the reasons you’d think. Sure, it’s notable that Roma, an unashamedly self-indulgent Spanish-language...
‘New Amsterdam’ Episode 14 – “The Forsaken” | TV Recap
This recap of New Amsterdam Episode 14, “The Forsaken”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words....
Proven Innocent Season 1 Episode 1 Recap
Fox’s new legal drama Proven Innocent is the worst kind of posturing, holier-than-thou hogwash. In it, Rachelle Lefevre plays Maddie Scott, a self-righteous know-it-all attorney...
‘Ken Jeong: You Complete Me, Ho’ | Netflix Special Review
It’s rare to come across a stand-up special that is somehow less funny than spending the equivalent amount of time feeding your hands into a...
‘The Dragon Prince’ Season 2 | Netflix Original Review
I very much enjoyed the first book of Netflix’s Original series The Dragon Prince, and its high-fantasy take on Avatar: The Last Airbender. Xadia is a...
‘Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy’ Season 1 | Netflix Review
The ability to laugh at ourselves and others has long been the sword and shield that humanity wields in the great, merciless colosseum of life....
‘New Amsterdam’ Episode 13 – “The Blues” | TV Recap
This recap of New Amsterdam Episode 13, “The Blues”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words....
‘I Am the Night’ Episode 3 – “Dark Flower” | TV Recap
This recap of I Am the Night Episode 3, “Dark Flower”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
‘Departures’ (‘Then Came You’) | Film Review
Departures is directed by Peter Hutchings (The Outcasts), stars Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) and Nina Dobrev (Fam) and is an...
‘The Divorce Party’ | Film Review
Life is full of surprises, only a few of them pleasant, so a charming and simplistic rom-com like The Divorce Party should be appreciated, if...