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‘Diablo’ Review – The Rare Scott Adkins Movie Where He Isn’t the Best Thing About It

June 14 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You judge Scott Adkins movies on a curve. There’s no point worrying about plot or dialogue or even acting, at least not the showy awards-baiting...

I Found the Remake of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Endearing and wonderfully Thematic

June 13 2025, by Daniel Hart

I often wonder–though the answer is obvious–why live-action remakes of animated movies are made. From an artistic perspective, you could argue that the merit is...

‘Murderbot’ Episode 6 Recap – And This Is Where It All Comes Together

June 13 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’ve been cattily picking at Murderbot ever since it debuted, but in Episode 6, I felt like it was finally learning its lesson.

Deep Cover (2025) Review – Orlando Bloom Steals the Show In A Hilarious, Crowd-Pleasing Action-Comedy

June 12 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You can’t trust a great cast these days. Fountain of Youth had a pretty good one, and it was rubbish, which is always the expectation...

‘Ballerina’ Reminded me that the ‘World of John Wick’ is Worth our Time

June 10 2025, by Daniel Hart

There’s always a risk when you expand a universe–a fact that has sparked social media debate over the limits of the MCU–but Ballerina was the...

‘Murderbot’ Episode 5 Recap – A Misguided Focus On Comedy Undermines the Drama

June 6 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Thus far, Murderbot has done a pretty good job of balancing its comedy with its drama. But it’s always a fine line.

‘K.O.’ Review – Gaudy French Actioner Provides Decent Fighting But Nothing Else

June 6 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

If you cast an MMA fighter in the lead role of a movie, it’s a fairly obvious statement about what that movie is intended to...

‘Criminal Code’ Season 2 Ending Explained – The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same

June 4 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Cut off one head, and two more take its place. This is the central idea of the Hydra from Greek mythology – and the extreme...

‘Criminal Code’ Season 2 Review – Another Forensically Detailed Outing With A Bit Of An Identity Crisis

June 4 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Do you remember Criminal Code? It was a surprising international hit for Netflix when it first debuted in 2023, delivering eight episodes of rigorously intensive...

‘Murderbot’ Episode 4 Recap – Confident and Conceptually Audacious

May 30 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Murderbot still has the usual problems in Episode 4, namely being too rushed and clipped for its own good, but “Escape Velocity Protocol” brings everything together well despite those quibbles.

‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2 Ending Explained – A Messy But Mostly Effective Finale

May 26 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The Last of Us already peaked in Season 2. It was in the penultimate episode where some minor storytelling changes improbably improved the original version.

‘Murderbot’ Episode 3 Recap – The Tight Runtime Continues To Feel Too Limiting

May 23 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’ve identified a key issue in Murderbot. To be fair, I mentioned it in my recap of the two-part premiere, and nothing has changed; it’s just twice as noticeable because Episode 3 is obviously half as long.

‘The Last of Us’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – For Once The Changes Improve the Original Story

May 19 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’m one of those insufferable fans of The Last of Us Part II who thinks it’s a work of towering genius, and I’ve done nothing throughout these recaps but moan about all the ways in which Season 2 of the HBO adaptation has made changes to it.

‘Murderbot’ Premiere Recap – An Enjoyably Deadpan Lead Performance Carries the First Two Episodes

May 16 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Murderbot is a comedy, first and foremost, and one of its key jokes is how little murder is in it, given the title.

Breaking Down Every Episode Of ‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 4

May 15 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Netflix’s often stellar sci-fi/fantasy anthology series Love, Death + Robots returns for Season 4 with another clutch of episodes, each highlighting a different style of...

‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 4 Review – The First Collection With More Misses Than Hits

May 15 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Anthologies are always a mixed bag by definition, but Tim Miller and David Fincher’s Love, Death + Robots has remained remarkably consistent throughout its first three seasons...

‘The Last of Us’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – They’re Getting This Story Completely Wrong

May 12 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

It was always going to be difficult to adapt The Last of Us Part II, which is a game that relies on the fundamental expectations of video games as a medium to tell a pretty complex story about grief, revenge, and various other attendant matters, none of them particularly positive.

‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – Impressively Stupid Television

May 11 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I've never been on board with the idea of hate-watching something. It seems like a waste of time to me.

‘Tin Soldier’ Review – An Inexplicably Good Cast Obscures A Thoroughly Terrible Movie

May 10 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea. Only...

‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2 Premiere Recap – A Man and His Bat

May 5 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Conceptually, The Walking Dead: Dead City was supposed to capitalize on the unresolved and oddly sexually charged relationship between Maggie and Negan.