Jonathon Wilson

Poison, the fourth and final installment in Wes Anderson’s collection of short films adapting Roald Dahl’s stories for Netflix, is ostensibly about a snake. But...

The Rat Catcher is weird even by the standards of both Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl, and even within the context of the collection of...

The third short film in Wes Anderson’s collection of Roald Dahl adaptations for Netflix is the deliberately idiosyncratic The Rat Catcher, a dark descent into...

The second of four short films from Wes Anderson adapting the stories of Roald Dahl for Netflix, The Swan is a sweet-looking but ultimately quite...

The Swan is the second of four Wes Anderson short films adapted for Netflix from the back catalog of Roald Dahl, which the streamer paid...

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar combines the best of both Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson in a 40-minute Netflix short. The first of four...

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, adapted from the same-titled short story by Roald Dahl and streaming on Netflix, condenses Wes Anderson’s trademark stylistic quirks...

The eight-episode Netflix series Choona has all the hallmarks of a classic heist thriller. It’s an exciting caper blending humor and excellent character development as...

Everybody loves a heist, not least the good folks at Netflix. The streamer has been pulling a fast one on consumer’s wallets with price hikes...

“Devourer of Light” seems a fitting name for Countess Bathory, who, in Episode 7, blotted out the sun, and here in Episode 8, the ending...

In Episode 7 of Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1, Countess Bathory proves why villains tend not to have many humanizing qualities – they’re liable to have...

Episode 6 of Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1 opens with something we’ve been waiting for all season – the arrival of Countess Bathory, otherwise known as...

Episode 5 of Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1 has a willingness to show vulnerability in its cool, vampire-hunting protagonist that many other shows could learn from....

At the midpoint of Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1, we’re treated to the obligatory stake-raising episode wherein the heroes confront the villains – or some of...

Episode 3 of Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1, “Freedom Was Sweeter”, lives up to its title by devoting over half of its runtime to a flashback...

“Horror Beyond Nightmares”, Episode 2 of Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1, continues to keep few secrets about the intentions of its various characters or the threat...

Episode 1 of Castlevania: Nocturne, “A Common Enemy in Evil”, embraces the show’s mandate as a sequel series about Richter Belmont by opening with his...

Nobody, least of all me, expected an animated adaptation of the Castlevania franchise, streaming on Netflix of all places, to be the best video game adaptation of...

The Woman in the Wall has been a big hit for the BBC, delivering at once both a scathing indictment of religious corruption and abuses...

“Paris Sera Toujours Paris,” Episode 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 1, takes us to Paris for some sightseeing, more interpersonal drama, a...