Jonathon Wilson

I’ve been watching Sacha Baron Cohen play dress-up since I was a child, and I’ll probably never tire of ignorant, hateful people being tricked into...

Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Perhaps it won’t be quite as pleasant or surprising to those of you who had any actual idea what...

2018 might be both the best and worst year for yet another franchise-starting young-adult blockbuster. The worst, because, frankly, who needs any more of these...

Shiv and Tom have tied the knot in the Succession Season 1 finale, but it remains to be seen if they’ve tied it around their...

Christopher Robin is a sneaky film, and if I’m being honest a little bit sadistic. Ostensibly aimed at children who’ll be too young and distracted...

It has been a good week for Netflix’s international programming. Wednesday saw the release of Switched, a live-action Original Series adapted from the manga by...

I am an absolute sucker for any film or series that is about sport, and I have a real affection for anything that focuses on...

Netflix continues, sniper-like, to target the South Asian market with Nikhil Bhat’s Brij Mohan Amar Rahe, otherwise known as Long Live Brij Mohan, although the...

Yellowstone represents the best and worst of Taylor Sheridan; all his most self-serving impulses, but also his rare willingness to expose himself to misinterpretation. All...

First impressions aren’t everything, but Switched, the new Japanese Netflix Original Series, makes some good ones. It quickly and shockingly establishes a compelling premise, introduces...

At this point, if you go anywhere near a cabin the woods, you’re just asking for trouble. Brad Baruh’s Dead Night – as generic a...

Any tension to be found in The Row, Matty Beckerman’s new sorority slasher, comes from fretting that any of these insufferable oxygen thieves might survive...

Love is in the air in “Pre-Nuptial”, episode 9 of Succession Season 1, as is bitterness, rage, jealousy, betrayal, and weed smoke, as the Roys...

It’s fitting that Ant-Man and the Wasp opens on Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) trying to entertain his daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Forston) while serving his...

Tom Cruise is running. He always is. For at least half of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the franchise, he’s running on...

Netflix’s world-gobbling expansion efforts continue apace, and after the remarkable success of the (very good) Indian crime series Sacred Games, it’s no surprise that international...

These days, watching a Netflix science-fiction film is like picking through the bins of a high-end restaurant. You might, if you’re lucky, fish out something...

The only thing I really remember about watching 50 Shades Darker, aside from having a few cocktails under my belt, is being unnaturally excited by...

Nobody goes to Prague in season 1, episode 8 of Succession, but everyone goes nuts. It seems fitting that after weeks of boardroom backstabbing the...

I’m an unapologetic advocate of Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer, from 2014, which rebooted the late-80s Edward Woodward TV series with a tea-sipping, classic-literature-reading, obsessive-compulsive Denzel...