RoleSenior Editor
LocationWest Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ExpertiseEditorial, Film and TV, News, Entertainment, K-Drama, Pop Culture, Rotten Tomatoes Approved, Editorial
Contribution6216 articles published since November 2017

Jonathon Wilson

Jonathon Wilson is one of Ready Steady Cut’s co-founders and has been an instrumental member of the team since its inception in 2017, with a leading role as Senior Editor.

After leaving college, Jonathon ventured into freelance writing to develop a portfolio. He was commissioned in multiple digital and print magazines for fiction and criticism before eventually pivoting to a more managerial role as the News Editor of a video game start-up (Pixels or Death).

In 2015, Jonathon published his first book, “Disfigured,” which is available digitally on Amazon.

Since helping to establish Ready Steady Cut in 2017, Jonathon has remained involved in all aspects of the site’s operation, mainly dedicated to its content output. He remains one of its primary Entertainment writers while also functioning as our dedicated Commissioning Editor, publishing over 6,500 articles. His coverage includes film, TV, entertainment, anime, true crime, and K-drama.

Jonathon’s experience and expertise in contemporary media allow him to assist our writers in producing the highest quality content tailored for savvy modern audiences.

Jonathon was also individually approved for Rotten Tomatoes and gained that status in June 2020: here is his Rotten Tomatoes Profile.

Articles by Jonathon Wilson

The Order Season 1 Review

March 7 2019

Available globally today, Netflix’s new genre-bending supernatural show The Order is difficult to pin down. Across ten episodes of occultist super-powered soapy shenanigans, Shelley Eriksen...

‘The Hard Way’ Netflix Review

March 6 2019

A Michael Jai White film is a very particular thing, and The Hard Way is a Michael Jai White movie through and through. It’s a...

Secret City Season 2 Review

March 6 2019

You can say this for Secret City: It knows how to make an impression. The first season began with a student demanding a free Tibet...

‘New Amsterdam’ Episode 15 Recap

March 6 2019

This recap of New Amsterdam Episode 15, “Croaklahoma”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. In...

Again of Thrones: Rewatching ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 1

March 5 2019

It’s nearly here: the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, and so to mark the end of our time in Westeros I’m going...

‘BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry’ Documentary Film Review

March 3 2019

The relatively impressive and vaguely terrifying documentary BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry, courtesy of Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, concerns for the most part the exporting of the Japanese...

Six Alternative Wrestling Movies

March 2 2019

With Fighting with my Family in the cinema now, I decided to have a look at six alternative wrestling movies, as it seems like the...

‘We Die Young’ Film Review

March 2 2019

A part of me misses the days when you could see Jean-Claude Van Damme on a VHS cover and know exactly what kind of film...

‘Budapest’ Review – Fails to Deliver for the Audience

March 1 2019

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

March 1 2019

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

March 1 2019

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

March 1 2019

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

February 27 2019

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

February 27 2019

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

February 22 2019

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

February 22 2019

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

February 22 2019

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

February 22 2019

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

February 22 2019

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

February 20 2019

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....