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
The Silent Treatment
A sponsored silence rapidly goes pear-shaped in this enjoyable if unfocussed farce.
Book Review: Jean Stein – West of Eden
Stories of the Hollywood shadowlands: not salacious just sad (and eminently readable).
Stowaway
Migrant crisis story touches on middle-class guilt, the slave builders of Dubai and the connectedness of a globalised world.
Jenny Eclair: How To Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane)
The hot flush and girl power for the over-50s are reclaimed.
Tom: A Story of Tom Jones
A tribute to the Welsh pop singer whose swagger made him an unlikely pop star in the 1960s.
Jersey Boys
Straight outta Jersey with close harmonies and sharp suits it’s the fantabulosa Four Seasons.
Rocco and His Brothers
Visconti’s masterpiece on sibling rivalry and revenge in Milan’s mean streets.
At the Mountains of Madness
From the pen of cult horror writer HP Lovecraft comes a thrilling and atmospheric one-man show.
The Glenn Miller Story
The story of the trombonist with a heart of gold and lungs of steel, his marriage and rise to fame is told with relish.
Preview: Impossible
Ken Wilson gets a sneak preview of the Playhouse’s giddy, dizzying night of magic and illusion with a contemporary twist.
Shane
The classic western that’s an existential epic on loss and lost innocence and the struggle of good and evil.
The Quiet Man
A classic romcom with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara battling it out in Technicolor Ireland.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Three cross-dressers go cross-country to discover themselves in the dark side of the Australian bush in this musical extravaganza.
Interview: Jason Donovan
Ahead of the revival of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the Aussie star talks to Ken Wilson about a role he clearly loves.
Handbagged
The weekly meetings between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher are fleshed out in an incisive romp that’s funny and smart.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley’s genetically-modified future is a clear echo of today’s chilling top-down meritocracy of oligarchs and minimum-wage worker ants.
What Goes Around
A gallus sex comedy about negotiating modern relationships that’s very funny and well observed.
