Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Again of Thrones: Rewatching ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 1
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
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
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
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
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....