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: 288

Other Articles: 19

Cover Girl

Lesser 1940s Technicolor musical that has moments of magic.

Cul-de-Sac

Polanski puts the comic frighteners on, in this journeyman piece.

Edinburgh Playhouse

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Frivolous and fun, this musical visit to the Jazz Age has its moments

La Bamba

Biopic on teenage rocker who died tragically young.

Black Orpheus

When love goes wrong at the Rio Carnival blame it on the bossa nova.

His Girl Friday

Classic screwball comedy that every film lover should own.

The Man from Laramie

Pioneering Western with psychological depth.

To Live and Die in LA

Stylish cop thriller full or surprises.

The Broons

King's Theatre

The Broons: Maggie’s Wedding

Dundee cartoon family opens panto season

Million Dollar Quartet

Festival Theatre

Million Dollar Quartet

Four young rockers on the rise bring it on home

Twilight’s Last Gleaming

Nutty general blackmails presidential administration in Cold War actioner.

The Small World of Sammy Lee

Kitchen sink meets noir in early 1960s Soho.

The Emigrants/New Land

Swedish settlers make a new life in immersive, lyrical epic.

HIM

Traverse Theatre

Him

Frank, fearless and funny monologue on an actor’s life

Jamaica Inn

There be smugglers in this lesser Hitchcock tale.

Opinion

Feature: Bad Moon Rising – Charles Manson and Pop Culture

In the lead up to Hallowe’en, the story of a real-life boogeyman.

The Hills Have Eyes

Classic slasher shows its age but its effective nastiness remains.

One Million Years BC

A real Hammer horror from the early Cretinous period.

Joan Collins

Festival Theatre

Joan Collins Unscripted

Britain’s old broad of showbiz passes round crackers – half caviar half peanut butter.

Fedora

Freakish Billy Wilder opus that only a buff could love.

Paths of Glory

Stinging rebuke on the senselessness of war.

Cat People

Dark psychological thriller that mixes horror with noir.

The Flight of the Phoenix

Enjoyable, if old fashioned, action movie

The Conversation Piece – Gruppo de Famiglia in un Interno

It’s as if the younger Kardashians want to bunk up with the Archbishop of Canterbury.