Ken Wilson

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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: 258

Other Articles: 18

Dance, Girl, Dance

Backstage romance from pioneering female director

The Apu Trilogy

Intoxicating Indian classic trilogy

Society

La Dolce Vita: Seven Days of Night

A look back at Fellini’s classic as it reaches 60 years young

Lola Montes

Flawed but delirious historical kitsch

The Prince of Tides

Beautifully shot if claggy and pretentious tragi-romance

Standing Up, Falling Down

Likeable bromantic dramedy

Scandal

Glossy retelling of true sex scandal and hypocrisy in high places

The Son of the Sheik

The exotic East revisited in silent era Hollywood epic

The Essential Jacques Demy

Irresistible selection box of French fancies

Black Angel

Suspenseful minor noir

Deborah Orr
Motherwell

Painful memoir of toxic family relationships is both raw and revealing

Cloak and Dagger

Busy, enjoyable wartime espionage romp from the great Fritz Lang

Now, Voyager

Campy, well-crafted 24 carat weepie from Hollywood’s Golden Age

Fuller at Fox

Perfect five-disc collection from pulp’s godfather

Ellie Harrison – The Glasgow Effect

Controversial art project leaves the reader with few answers

Hold Back The Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn

Interesting 1940s romantic thriller of cross-border romance

A. J. Cronin – The Citadel

The novel that inspired the NHS is as relevant today as it was when written

The Incident

Potent issue-based thriller

JT LeRoy

Funny, sad and fascinating story of famous literary hoax

Domino

Overcomplicated misfire of an actioner

Sixteen Candles

Undemanding teen wrong-com with great soundtrack.

Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

A little gem of a film that’s sad, a tad sentimental but never maudlin

Chiang Yee – The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh

Charming but dated travel book about our capital city.

Swing Time

Glorious song’n’ dance musical from Fred and Ginger