Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Swordgai The Animation’ Season 1 Review: A Mesmerizing Blend of Violence and Humanity
Swordgai The Animation tells the tragic story of Gai, a child abandoned from birth, his self-inflicted retribution serves to set a course of anguish and...
‘Take Your Pills’ Review: A Fractured Look at America’s ADHD Drug Epidemic
The increasing use of amphetamines, like Ritalin or Adderall, to treat ADHD (amongst other things) is becoming a real cause for concern in certain parts...
On My Block Season 1 Review
On My Block Season 1 is a Netflix comedy series that focuses on four teenagers — Cesar (Diego Tinoco), Ruby (Jason Genao), Monse (Sierra Capri)...
‘Steel Rain’ Review: North Korean Espionage and Doomsday Drama
Steel Rain cooks up a button-pushing doomsday scenario as a super-skilled North Korean agent team up with a dorky presidential aide to stave off a...
‘The Hurricane Heist’ Review – A Calamitous, Brain-Dead Thriller
In this exceptionally dumb thriller about bad weather and morons, thieves attempt a heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches. Directed...
Review | Ladies First (2018)
Ladies First is a Netflix Original documentary short that tells the inspirational story of Deepika Kumari, who, after being born on a roadside to abject...
Review: Jared Leto in ‘The Outsider’ – A Controversial Yakuza Tale
The Outsider sees method actor Jared Leto (House Of Gucci) as an American soldier who joins the Yakuza in post-WWII Japan. Directed by Martin Zandvliet...
Review | Girls Incarcerated Season 1 (2018)
Netflix Original docuseries Girls Incarcerated, follows the lives of some of America’s youngest female offenders as they adapt to life incarcerated. Set in a female juvenile...
Film Review | Game Night (2018)
Game Night is a raucously funny comedy about parlour-loving partiers who find themselves drawn into a web of danger. Written by Mark Perez and directed...
Film Review | The Ravenous / Les Affamés (2017)
Written and directed by Robin Aubert, The Ravenous, also known as Les Affamés, is a Canadian horror-drama about a zombie outbreak in the remote Quebec...
Flint Town Review – Exceptional Documentary Filmmaking
Docuseries Flint Town offers a tantalizing glance into one of the most underfunded yet hardest-working police forces in America. The town of Flint is riddled...
Review | Mute (2018)
In Netflix Original Mute, a voiceless bartender’s search for his missing love takes him into the dark, criminal underbelly of a future Berlin. Directed and...
An Interview with Marshal Hilton
With close to 40 plus films to his credit, the former FOX Series Regular Co-Star on the #1 Rated Fox Kids Show Beetleborgs Metallix, Marshal...
Review | First Team: Juventus Part One (2018)
First Team: Juventus, the latest Netflix Original Docu-series, takes us on a behind the scenes look at one of Europe’s most famous, most loved and...
‘Irreplaceable You’ Review – Unoriginal But Get The Tissues Ready For Another Cancer-Romance
Irreplaceable You questions the inevitable what ifs that follow the devastating news of a terminal diagnosis. This heartbreaking romance follows Sam and Abbie’s life after...
Review | Everything Sucks! (2018)
Netflix Original Everything Sucks! follows nerdy teenaged outsiders in Boring, Oregon, as they deal with the stresses of growing up in the VHS era. The...
‘Re:Mind’ Season 1 Review – A Clever Series That Leaves You Short-Changed
Re:Mind is a mystery that follows eleven female students as they try and find a motive behind why they have woken up bound to a...
Review | The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
Adapted from the non-fiction book of the same name, The 15:17 to Paris tells a tale of real-life heroism starring the three American men –...
Review | Still/Born
In Still/Born, Mary gives birth to twins – but only one of them survives. While taking care of her living child, Adam, she starts to...
Basmati Blues Review – A Mushy Slop Reheated From 2013
Basmati Blues, Danny Baron’s feature debut, follows a scientist on a PR mission to India for a slimy corporation that wants to peddle a new...