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SATURDAY APRIL 30

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

The unfortunate fourth

Three, 7.00pm

There’s a fifth Indiana Jones movie in the works that is due out next year following a convoluted genesis with George Lucas departing and Steven Spielberg passing on directing. It’s not that they did a great job with this previous revival. It was fairly tedious, overcrowded with supporting characters and owed rather a lot to 1950s B-movies with a story involving alien artefacts, Soviet villains (led by Cate Blanchett in a career-worst

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