Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘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...
Review – Free Fire
Despite already boasting one of the most lurid, original, promising and peculiar catalogues in UK filmmaking, director Ben Wheatley and his co-writer, Amy Jump, have...
Review – Sand Castle
There are two things I like about Fernando Coimbra’s Sand Castle, the direct-to-Netflix war drama. The first is Nicholas Hoult, whose character, Private Matt Ocre,...
Review – Colossal
Ah, it’s another one of those movies. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t mean Colossal is in any way typical or familiar – quite the...
Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths Review
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. If there’s any one thing that has prevented me from getting properly...
Wonder Woman (2009) Review
Wonder Woman (2009) is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Wonder Woman looks like the kind...
Batman: Gotham Knight Review
Batman: Gotham Knight is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Here’s what Batman: Gotham Knight is...
Justice League: The New Frontier Review
Justice League: The New Frontier is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Justice League: The New...
Superman: Doomsday Review
Like most of DC’s original animated movies, Superman: Doomsday is based on a popular story arc from the comic books or graphic novels – in...
Review – Daredevil Season 2
Between you and me, despite all the evidence to the contrary, I didn’t think the second season of Daredevil was going to work. I know,...
Analysis – Daredevil Season 1
[Note: This was written before the release of Jessica Jones, Daredevil Season 2, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Just keep that in mind. Most of...
Review – Mechanic: Resurrection
Mechanic: Resurrection is the 2016 sequel to the 2011 remake of the 1972 original, each about a hitman, Arthur Bishop, played once by Charles Bronson...
‘The Purge: Anarchy’ | Film Review
I really didn’t like The Purge. Of course, the film was simply bad on its own terms, wedged within the confines of a generic home-invasion...
‘The Purge’ | Film Review
The thing I really, really dislike about The Purge – aside from its obvious and numerous failings as a film – is the fact that it somehow...