Kinsey (2005) (DVD)

Plot: Professor Alfred ‘Prok’ Knsey (Liam Neeson) is a passionate but unremarkable academic. Until, that is, he turns from studying gall wasps to human sexual behaviour. His relationships with his wife (Laura Linney), father (John Lithgow) and protégé (Peter Sarsgaard) are jostled as he challenges his own sexual identity and explores America’s… Schlong. Willy. Penis. There’s an erect one in “Kinsey” – on a slide projected by Liam Neeson’s charismatic, boundary-pushing professor in a lecture on human sexual behaviour. Is this shocking? His pre-war audience certainly thinks so, And the fact that its presence is worth noting, even in this day and age, suggests ...  Read the complete review

I hadn’t really intended to write a review about Kinsey, honestly because it’s sometimes hard to know what to say about films that you feel hit the middle ground comfortably and strive for, but don’t quite grasp, excellence. But there is actually quite a bit to say about this interesting, occasionally challenging and eminently watchable film. Kinsey tells the story of famous sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey. In the 1950s, a time when oral sex was deemed something that would make you infertile, there were no existing studies of human sexual behaviour. What was “normal” simply wasn’t known; with the threat of social ostracism falling heavily on those who asked ...  Read the complete review

More than fifty years after the publication of his two studies on sex Alfred C Kinsey is still able to cause controversy. Conservative Christian groups in America picketed writer-director Bill Condon's "Kinsey" on its release; ridiculously laying the blame for sexually transmitted diseases and pornography at his door. Kinsey simply documented what he found in his studies, and with it removed guilt and shame from a large number of people's lives. Although ideas of oral sex reducing fertility or masturbation causing epileptic attacks are laughable today, Condon appears to have chosen to concentrate on the more relevant issue of gender and sexuality. ...  Read the complete review