Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Recap: Game of Thrones S7E2: “Stormborn”
And we’re back. Just like maps used to say, there be dragons here. And lots of spoilers. Where we ended last week is where we...
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 Review – A Weaker Second Half
Allow me to direct you to my review of the first half of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, which contains all the blathering about...
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 Review
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Batman: The...
‘The Story of 90 Coins’ Review – A Film That Resonates
The Story of 90 Coins is the directorial debut of Michael Wong, a Malaysian filmmaker currently based in Beijing. It’s the story of a promise...
Superman vs The Elite Review – An Intriguing and Topical Superman Story
Superman vs. The Elite is an adaptation – although, if we’re being completely honest, an expansion – of a story from Action Comics #775 called...
‘Justice League: Doom’ Review – A Surprisingly Dark Story
Justice League: Doom is the motion picture version of Mark Waid’s Justice League of America arc, JLA: Tower of Babel, from 2000, adapted for the...
Batman: Year One Review
Batman: Year One is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Batman: Year One is the animated adaptation...
‘Archer: Dreamland’ Review – It Teaches An Old Dog New Tricks
The eighth season of Adam Reed’s anarchic, sneakily genius spy-spoof animated series – and a bit of a gamble, this time around. Sure, the FXX...
Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming
It’s the sixth Spider-Man movie since the dawn of the new millennium, the second live-action reboot of the character, and the sixteenth entry into the...
Review – Transformers: The Last Knight
You know what this is: the FIFTH of Michael Bay’s inexplicably-successful Transformers movies. I’ve never met a single person who genuinely likes these things, and...
Review – Wonder Woman
And… relax. It’s fine. Don’t let the overwhelmingly positive critical reaction fool you, though. It isn’t great – or, at the very least, it isn’t...
Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Somewhere in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, there’s a Guy Ritchie movie. You can see it, occasionally. For two or three scenes, the FX-leaden...
Review – War Machine
What is War Machine, exactly? Based on the title, you’d assume it’s a war movie. A proper, boots on sand, bullets in brains, red-hot, white-knuckle,...
‘Snatched’ Review – It’ll Kidnap You For 90 Minutes
In Snatched, Amy Schumer plays Emily Middleton. Emily Middleton is, for all intents and purposes, Amy Schumer, or at least the on-stage-and-screen persona that she...
‘Black Site Delta’ Review – It’s a B-Picture with a C-List Cast and a D-Grade Sensibility
If there were awards for generic titles, Black Site Delta would win them. All of them. Those three little words tell you everything you need...
Analysis – Gone Girl (Plot Holes)
The problem with discussing plot holes is that nobody can really agree on what they are and if they matter. Everyone enters a movie with...
Review – Dead Awake
In my house, waking up is often an issue. But in Phillip Guzman’s Dead Awake, it’s a death sentence. The characters in this movie are...
All-Star Superman Review
All-Star Superman is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. All-Star Superman is adapted from one of the most iconic, cerebral and visually-inventive Superman stories ever...
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse Review
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. So, there I was, expecting the worst....
Batman: Under the Red Hood Review
Batman: Under the Red Hood is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Allow me to be...