Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Blood Brother’ | Film Review
Blood Brother is a film that is a little bit better than you’d think and a lot worse than it might have been. Any low...
‘Burning’ | Film Review
When the first teaser trailer dropped for Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning, it was a shock to the senses. As trailers go, Burning ticked all the right boxes,...
‘Bodied’ | Film Review
My love for battle rap predates my current career as a mean-spirited producer of words, but the two things are inextricably linked. The underground world...
Nightflyers Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – “Torches and Pitchforks”
This recap of Nightflyers Season 1 Episode 2, “Torches and Pitchforks”, contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
Nightflyers Season 1 Episode 1 Recap – “All That We’ve Left Behind”
This recap of Nightflyers Season 1 Episode 1, “All That We’ve Left Behind”, contains spoilers. The latest work of George R. R. Martin to be...
‘Prodigy’ (2018) | Film Review
Prodigy is from writer and director Nathan Leon in his feature film debut, starring Cory Kays, Hailey Henry and newcomer Embry Johnson, and is a...
‘1983’ | Netflix Original Series Review
A dystopian thriller, 1983 is set in an alternative 2003. Poland is subject to totalitarian rule ever since a terror attack twenty years earlier which...
‘Nicky Jam: El Ganador’ | Netflix Original Series Review
New on Netflix today, at least in Latin America, Spain and here in England, is Nicky Jam: El Ganador, the biographical original series that chronicles...
‘Baby’ | Netflix Original Series Review
For the same reason that passing motorists pull over to gawp at car crashes, I’m attracted to film and television that is mired in controversy....
‘The Tribe’ | Netflix Film Review
I’m not entirely sure who a movie like The Tribe is for. The film, which debuted on Netflix last week, is an Italian comedy about...
‘How to Get Over a Breakup’ | Netflix Film Review
Now that Netflix is so intimately tied to the very idea of relationships, it only makes sense that the streaming giant should cater to those...
‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ | Netflix Film Review
I hate to rain on any parades here, but I think we really should be way more excited about Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle when...
‘New Amsterdam’ Episode 9 – “As Long as It Takes” | TV Recap
This recap of New Amsterdam Episode 9, “As Long as It Takes”, contains spoilers. Wednesday mornings are for plotting the downfall of my many enemies,...
‘Imitation Girl’ | Film Review
Imitation Girl saunters around with the best of science-fiction, in my opinion, because it introduces sci-fi elements into a world otherwise recognizably modern. While there...
‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ | Second Opinion
After travelling to the Disney fansite Oh My Disney!, there is a scene in Ralph Breaks the Internet in which Vanellope comes face to face...
‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ | Film Review
With it being fight month here at Ready Steady Cut what better time than to revisit an early version of the boxing movie, one of...
‘Wakefield’ (2016) | Film Review
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the grandfather of the American Novel, and he is to date still one of the genre’s best practitioners, certainly with such novel...
‘Astral’ | Film Review
Written by Chris and Michael Mul and showcasing Chris’ directorial debut is the goosebumps-inducing Astral, 83 minutes of chills to satisfy your cravings for...
‘I Am Paul Walker’ | Film Review
On the date of November 30th 2013, Paul Walker was involved in a tragic car accident which took his life at just 40 years old...
‘The Grinch’ (2018) | Film Review
Call me a snob, I don’t care, but the difference between the Grinch as a character and someone who’s human is as large as the...