Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Review – 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain
The true story of Eric LeMarque (Josh Hartnett), a former professional ice-hockey player and crystal meth addict who survived for eight days in the Sierra...
‘Dead Alive (1992)’ Review – Blood, Gore and Excess Comedy
“Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?” “The Uruks turn Northeast! They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard!” “That baby just… landed in a fucking blender.”...
Review – The Descent: Part 2
Director: Jon Harris Writer: James McCarthy, J. Blakeson and James Watkins Rating: R Release Date: December 2, 2009 This review is part of our 31...
Review – Insidious
This review is part of our 31 Days of Horror series. After moving into their new home, parents Josh and Renai Lambert (Patrick Wilson and...
‘OtherLife’ Review – Good Practice For The Director
Ben C. Lucas brought us an ambitious, flawed bit of pulp sci-fi from the sunny shores of Australia. It’s a rumination on the pitfalls of...
Recap – Star Trek: Discovery S1E6
Not much, if I’m being honest, and what did happen made very little sense. I’m not one to complain about betrayals of Star Trek continuity,...
Review – You’re Next
When the Davison family got together for their parents’ 35th wedding anniversary, they knew some sort of drama would be on the cards. After all,...
Review – Final Destination
Director: James Wong Writer(s): James Wong, Glen Morgan, Jeffrey Reddick Rating: R Release Date: March 17, 2000 What’s this? Watered down with sequel after sequel,...
‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ Review – A Serviceable Piece Of Work
Our third trip down the well-stocked aisles of Toys R Us, this time in search of LEGO’s apparently-popular Ninjago; a more narrative-heavy extension of LEGO’s...
‘Better Watch Out’ Review – A Fun Take On A Seasonal Slasher
It’s a Christmas-themed home-invasion thriller that rather quickly reinvents itself as a deceptively novel and clever subversion of a Christmas-themed home-invasion thriller. It’s also incredibly...
‘The Crucifixion’ Review – A Flat-Pack, Self-Assembly Genre Film
Just as there are some fates worse than death – such as, let’s say, being possessed by an ancient, body-hopping evil – there are some...
‘Sleepwalker (2017)’ Review – An Ambitious Movie But It’s A Real Mess
Once, when I was younger and much, much stupider, I walked for five miles in the middle of the night, totally unaware of what I...
‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ Review – An Enlightening and Educational Documentary
This documentary follows the life and death of Marsha P. Johnson. She was a gay African American who was a leading figure in fighting for...
Review – The Babadook
What is surprising, poignant, provocative, and frightening about The Babadook is its honesty. Here is a film – a debut feature, no less, written and...
Review – My Little Pony: The Movie
Thanks to a series of incredibly bizarre events, earlier this evening I found myself in a screening of My Little Pony: The Movie, along with...
Review – The Evil Dead
When Ash (Bruce Campbell) and four of his friends decide to go and stay in the woods together for a week, they hope for a...
Review – The Conjuring
This review also contains spoilers. The Conjuring follows paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren to Rhode Island in 1971 to a farmhouse home...
Review – The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel follows the tale of eccentric hotel concierge M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and a lobby boy he befriends whilst caught up in...
Review – The Departed
Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) has practically run his part of Boston for years via dodgy dealings and violence despite any amount of police operations to...
Review – The Accountant
Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a man with a better affinity for numbers than people. On the surface, it would seem that he is your...