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: 268

Other Articles: 18

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

Tesla

Gruesomely self-indulgent docudrama told in baffling postmodern style

LX 2048

Dystopian drama with clones, virtual reality and sexbots that doesn’t quite come off

Resisterhood

Powerful and moving documentary on resistance to the Trumpocalypse

The Garden Left Behind

Supercharged primer on the very real threats faced by trans people every day

Stage Mother

Jacki Weaver inherits a drag club in twerking tearjerker

Female Trouble

Pre-punk art school shocker that still delivers electric jolts

Criss Cross

Compelling, densely-plotted thriller full of atmosphere

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