Ken Wilson

@kenwilson84

Ken is a feature writer award-winning editor covering subjects as diverse as the arts and design, film, the law, health and popular culture.

Reviews: 288

Other Articles: 19

Festival Theatre

The Threepenny Opera

Seductively staged 20th-century classic is as powerful as ever

Festival Theatre

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ogresse

Fierce and funny musical myth from a jazz genius

Alistair Moffat Scotland’s Forgotten Past

Engaging believe-it-or-not stories from Scottish history

Travis Alabanza
None of the Above

Clunky memoir of growing up non-binary

Original Cast Album: Company

Fantastic time capsule of a recording session that fans of musical theatre will love

The Champion of Auschwitz

Riveting true story of a boxer in the infamous death camp

Natural Disasters

The travails of the twentysomething dating scene dissected

Mosley: It’s Complicated

Tantalising but lopsided bio of the rise and fall of Formula 1 kingpin

Major Dundee

Epic horse opera from ‘Bloody Sam’ restored to its former glory

Merrily We Go to Hell

Subtle tale of the sex wars from Hollywood’s naughty-but-nice pre-Code era

Some Kind of Heaven

Life in a Florida retirement community that offers sun and not so splendid isolation

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Teen exploitation that shows too much middle-aged flab

Secrets & Lies

Comedy of manners by way of theatre of embarrassment in this Mike Leigh classic

The Stylist

Gory and stylish thriller where women are both victims and perpetrator

Echo in the Canyon

Revealing documentary on the 1960s genesis of the West Coast Sound

Preview

Marlene Dietrich – “A monument made famous by transcending time”

With a retrospective boxset about to be released, Ken Wilson looks back at the life of the beautiful, bewitching, bisexual German-American megastar

The New World

Terrence Malick applies his transcendent, immersive vision to the tale of Pocahontas

Safe Spaces

Professor gets drawn into the university battleground of the culture war in incisive comedy

The Night Porter

Controversial concentration camp romance is tamer than you may remember

Girlfriends

Influential movie about love, work and finding yourself anticipates the mumblecore movement

The Sheltering Sky

Twisted and tragic romance in ravishing north Africa

Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful

Photography meets hagiography in portrait of dated porn-deluxe snapper

The Times of Harvey Milk

Tragic yet hopeful doc on a time when LGBT+ rights were fought hard for

I Spit on Your Grave: the Complete Collection

Reprehensible 70s slasher and equally vile sequels and remakes