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It is bloody cold, I'm curled up in bed. And I'm cold...but I do have the sublime new Pineapple thief album keeping me company.

Indiana Jones 4: yeah it's fun. Oh you want more? right, Ford doesn't look too old for most of the movie, it rocks along nicely (mostly), for a script in gestation for 20 years it's a bit loose. the snappy dialogue is there, and Ford's laconic drawl is still great. As some reviewers have said, it might be Speilberg's best looking movie for sometime, for someone known as a visual director in his early days - things went haywire during the big period. But there are some quite nice shots in this movie suggesting he hasn't totally lost it. Rating? eh, meaningless fun a cut above generic hollywood action fodder so 3/5.

Kinsey a biopic of Alfred Kinsey who did a lot of studies on human sexuality in the US. Kinsey is a really important figure in our understanding of human sexual behaviour, seeing as for most of the last century no-one spoke of it. There's some amusing examples of the misunderstandings on sexuality used in the movie, including classics such as (from a female) no i don't masturbate I heard it causes problems with babies (i'm paraphrasing). Liam Neeson, as Kinsey, is superb. It's been awhile since I saw an actor so completely nail a performance and hold the entire movie together so well. The movie briefly details his early work (on insects), his 'interesting' persuit of the woman (who you get the impression was really the power behind Kinsey's throne), and his subsequent all-consuming interest in human sexuality. I found it really interesting, well written (by the guy who did gods and monsters) and it's worth seeing for Neeson's performance alone. 4.5/5.

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