Let’s raise a toast to the inventor of karaoke, the late great Japanese engineer Shigeichi Negishi. He devised the first karaoke machine in 1967, the “Sparko Box.” This invention changed the soundtrack of our lives forever. Negishi’s death was announced this week, at the age of 100, which means a century of making the world a louder, more tone-deaf place. His legacy is that all of us who are terrible singers can live out our tawdriest pop-star dreams for a few minutes of karaoke glory. We owe him so much.
- 3/16/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
This Monday on PBS, young viewers are invited to explore history and creativity with Season 2 Episode 6 of “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum” titled “I Am Hedy Lamarr; I Am Archimedes.” Airing at 12:30 Pm on January 22, 2024, the episode unfolds as Hedy Lamarr showcases her versatility, teaching Yadina that she can excel in more than one thing.
The episode continues with Xavier, Yadina, and Brad discovering the power of creative thinking as they learn from the historical figure Archimedes. The storyline emphasizes that embracing imaginative and innovative approaches can lead to new and exciting ideas.
Tune in at 12:30 Pm for an educational and entertaining afternoon with “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.” The episode not only introduces children to historical figures but also encourages them to embrace creativity as a powerful tool for problem-solving and learning on PBS this Monday.
Release Date & Time: 12:30 Pm Monday 22 January 2024 on PBS...
The episode continues with Xavier, Yadina, and Brad discovering the power of creative thinking as they learn from the historical figure Archimedes. The storyline emphasizes that embracing imaginative and innovative approaches can lead to new and exciting ideas.
Tune in at 12:30 Pm for an educational and entertaining afternoon with “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.” The episode not only introduces children to historical figures but also encourages them to embrace creativity as a powerful tool for problem-solving and learning on PBS this Monday.
Release Date & Time: 12:30 Pm Monday 22 January 2024 on PBS...
- 1/15/2024
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
In James Mangold's "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," Jones (Harrison Ford) goes on a globe-trotting adventure with his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) to locate pieces and details about the titular widget, a temporal compass constructed by Archimedes. Helena is a sassy, criminal artifacts trader with a heart of gold, and she has left a trail of broken hearts and loyal followers in her wake; the makers of "Dial of Destiny" were likely trying to set up a spinoff film franchise with Helena at the helm.
One of the heroine's more loyal sidekicks is her connection in Morocca, Teddy (Ethann Isidore). Teddy is about 12 or 13, and dreams of flying airplanes, receiving oral lessons from other pilots who pass through town. When Indy and Helena pass through town, pursued by vicious Nazi stooges, Teddy will instantly be swept up in their intrigue, dragged along into various vehicles and locations without much time to think.
One of the heroine's more loyal sidekicks is her connection in Morocca, Teddy (Ethann Isidore). Teddy is about 12 or 13, and dreams of flying airplanes, receiving oral lessons from other pilots who pass through town. When Indy and Helena pass through town, pursued by vicious Nazi stooges, Teddy will instantly be swept up in their intrigue, dragged along into various vehicles and locations without much time to think.
- 1/6/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Indiana Jones returned to our screens earlier this year after a 15-year absence with "Dial of Destiny," a movie Lex Briscuso called "an action-packed, high-octane super soaker of a film, while at the same time amounting to a beautiful final conquest and farewell" in her review for /Film. The film ignores all the bad parts of "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (even poor Mutt) and has a cool sort-of crossover with "For All Mankind" in Mads Mikkelsen's character.
The biggest surprise of the film, however, is its big third-act moment. Following the wrath of God, a Templar ghost doing riddles, and literal aliens is no small feat. And yet, "Dial of Destiny" goes big and bold in its grand finale, which makes it one of the best sci-fi movies of the year.
The scene, of course, sees Indiana and his goddaughter Helena travel back in time to ancient Greece...
The biggest surprise of the film, however, is its big third-act moment. Following the wrath of God, a Templar ghost doing riddles, and literal aliens is no small feat. And yet, "Dial of Destiny" goes big and bold in its grand finale, which makes it one of the best sci-fi movies of the year.
The scene, of course, sees Indiana and his goddaughter Helena travel back in time to ancient Greece...
- 12/12/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
This article contains Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny spoilers.
It’s the sequence that either makes or breaks the fifth Indiana Jones flick for you: using a mysterious device composed of gears and arcane numerals, Harrison Ford’s grizzled archaeologist, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s delightful Helena Shaw, and a plane full of Nazis travel backwards in time. Suddenly, a legendary hero and his greatest foes—who already seem themselves a step out of time in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’s 1969 setting—become the ultimate anachronisms. They’re veritable 20th century spacemen transported back to a world of Romans and Greeks, swords and sandals.
For his final adventure, our dear Dr. Jones wound up in 212 BC, witnessing the Siege of Syracuse.
In a franchise defined in large part by magic and miracles, it might be the most miraculous sequence yet, which is saying something since the wrath...
It’s the sequence that either makes or breaks the fifth Indiana Jones flick for you: using a mysterious device composed of gears and arcane numerals, Harrison Ford’s grizzled archaeologist, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s delightful Helena Shaw, and a plane full of Nazis travel backwards in time. Suddenly, a legendary hero and his greatest foes—who already seem themselves a step out of time in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’s 1969 setting—become the ultimate anachronisms. They’re veritable 20th century spacemen transported back to a world of Romans and Greeks, swords and sandals.
For his final adventure, our dear Dr. Jones wound up in 212 BC, witnessing the Siege of Syracuse.
In a franchise defined in large part by magic and miracles, it might be the most miraculous sequence yet, which is saying something since the wrath...
- 12/2/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Quick Answer: You can stream the first four Indiana Jones movies on Disney+ or Paramount+, or you can rent them on Amazon Prime Video.
More than 40 years after we first met Indiana Jones, the archaeology professor has returned to the silver screen for a fifth and final adventure. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
In the new film, now on Disney+, Indy (played by Harrison Ford) seeks the Archimedes Dial, an ancient tool used for time travel. Across from Jones is Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a former Nazi who now works for NASA.
More than 40 years after we first met Indiana Jones, the archaeology professor has returned to the silver screen for a fifth and final adventure. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
In the new film, now on Disney+, Indy (played by Harrison Ford) seeks the Archimedes Dial, an ancient tool used for time travel. Across from Jones is Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a former Nazi who now works for NASA.
- 12/1/2023
- by Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
Harrison Ford’s final adventure with the hat and whip, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” will be released Dec. 1 on Disney+, the streaming service said Wednesday.
Directed by James Mangold, “Dial of Destiny” sees an aging, isolated Indiana Jones plunged into another adventure as former Nazi officer Jurgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) goes on a search for the Antikythera, a mysterious dial created by Archimedes capable of finding rifts in the time-space continuum.
Alongside his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), who has her own reasons for searching for the dial, Indy goes on another globetrotting search, and along the way opens up about the mistakes he made that led to the collapse of hi marriage to Marion Ravenwood.
Along with “Dial of Destiny,” Disney+ will also premiere “Timeless Heroes,” a documentary about the origins of “Indiana Jones” with interviews with Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and others. Laurent Bouzereau...
Directed by James Mangold, “Dial of Destiny” sees an aging, isolated Indiana Jones plunged into another adventure as former Nazi officer Jurgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) goes on a search for the Antikythera, a mysterious dial created by Archimedes capable of finding rifts in the time-space continuum.
Alongside his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), who has her own reasons for searching for the dial, Indy goes on another globetrotting search, and along the way opens up about the mistakes he made that led to the collapse of hi marriage to Marion Ravenwood.
Along with “Dial of Destiny,” Disney+ will also premiere “Timeless Heroes,” a documentary about the origins of “Indiana Jones” with interviews with Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and others. Laurent Bouzereau...
- 11/1/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
When James Mangold took the adventuring archaeologist reins from Steven Spielberg on "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," fans were wary for a couple of reasons. One was the simple fact that, aside from ABC's "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," Spielberg was the series' sole director. As the "Jaws" sequels and the "Jurassic World" series proved, no one can match The Beard when it comes to terrifying and elating audiences, sometimes in the same scene. The other fear had to do with legacy. When Harrison Ford announced at September 2022's D23 expo that this was his last go-round in the fedora ("I'm not falling down for you again"), we took him at his word. He turned 81 this year, and has incurred all manner of injuries via stunts and aviation mishaps.
Given that Mangold had earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the death of Hugh Jackman's "Wolverine" in the superb "Logan,...
Given that Mangold had earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the death of Hugh Jackman's "Wolverine" in the superb "Logan,...
- 9/3/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
It is a shame that despite the title of the superhero Blue Beetle existing since the Golden Age of comics, right since the debut of biggies like Superman and Batman, even the franchise fans don’t know much about him. Fans of DC comics have an idea about the importance of legacies in the franchise, and Blue Beetle is one of those characters who exemplifies that perfectly. Since the beginning, three distinctive versions of the character have been created for three different generations of readers, all unique in their own way yet connected by a defined lore at the same time.
Although, on paper, Blue Beetle is the fourteenth entry of the Dceu, it is largely disconnected from the near-defunct universe’s world-building and instead will be treated as an unofficial entry of the upcoming Dcu. From that aspect, the introduction of Blue Beetle early in the newly formed universe...
Although, on paper, Blue Beetle is the fourteenth entry of the Dceu, it is largely disconnected from the near-defunct universe’s world-building and instead will be treated as an unofficial entry of the upcoming Dcu. From that aspect, the introduction of Blue Beetle early in the newly formed universe...
- 8/16/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
The first "eureka moment" in recorded history occurred when Archimedes, upon immersing himself in a bathtub, finally understood the concept of water displacement. It was not a discovery per se (the phenomenon had been there every time he went for a soak), but, for whatever reason, this time the light went on, and my man allegedly streaked nude through the streets of Syracuse proclaiming his discovery.
Since then, the term "eureka moment" has been used to describe everything from mind-blowing scientific revelations to unearthing a motherlode of gold — epochal occasions for the planet or an individual. Something so wild you're compelled to yell some nonsense like "Eureka!"
I would not consider, "Hey, let's put G.I. Joe and the Transformers in the same movie" to be anywhere in the atom-splitting ballpark of a "eureka moment." Especially when your studio owns the rights to both franchises, and, well, every kid who...
Since then, the term "eureka moment" has been used to describe everything from mind-blowing scientific revelations to unearthing a motherlode of gold — epochal occasions for the planet or an individual. Something so wild you're compelled to yell some nonsense like "Eureka!"
I would not consider, "Hey, let's put G.I. Joe and the Transformers in the same movie" to be anywhere in the atom-splitting ballpark of a "eureka moment." Especially when your studio owns the rights to both franchises, and, well, every kid who...
- 8/5/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers.]
Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones is back in fine form for swan song “The Dial of Destiny,” dodging former Nazi rival Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) alongside estranged goddaughter/treasure hunter Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) while chasing after Archimedes’ Antikythera (the titular dial).
But director James Mangold fully embraced the senior daredevil archaeologist being out of step in the turbulent ’60s, putting Indy firmly in the time period by collaborating with production designer Adam Stockhausen (“Asteroid City”) on several action-packed historical recreations. Audiences see everything from the Nazi castle and plunder train during the 1944 prologue (boasting a de-aged Ford by Ilm) and the Apollo 11 astronaut ticker-tape parade in New York City to the Ear of Dionysius cave in Sicily and a battle with the invading Romans in 213 Bce.
“We had a very unusual early process where I was able to do sketching work in real-time as [Mangold] was developing the script,” Stockhausen told IndieWire.
Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones is back in fine form for swan song “The Dial of Destiny,” dodging former Nazi rival Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) alongside estranged goddaughter/treasure hunter Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) while chasing after Archimedes’ Antikythera (the titular dial).
But director James Mangold fully embraced the senior daredevil archaeologist being out of step in the turbulent ’60s, putting Indy firmly in the time period by collaborating with production designer Adam Stockhausen (“Asteroid City”) on several action-packed historical recreations. Audiences see everything from the Nazi castle and plunder train during the 1944 prologue (boasting a de-aged Ford by Ilm) and the Apollo 11 astronaut ticker-tape parade in New York City to the Ear of Dionysius cave in Sicily and a battle with the invading Romans in 213 Bce.
“We had a very unusual early process where I was able to do sketching work in real-time as [Mangold] was developing the script,” Stockhausen told IndieWire.
- 7/5/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
This post contains spoilers for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indiana Jones gets punched in the face. That’s how director James Mangold decided to end Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and final movie about the adventurous archaeologist. For some, the ending is the ultimate sign of disrespect, in which a broken Indy begs to be left in the past with Archimedes, only to get knocked out and dragged to the present by his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Others found it to be a bit of a stretch, taking Dr. Jones out of his element via time travel, and throwing him into an unfamiliar past with the aid of another wild MacGuffin.
But for Mangold, the ending was the only way to close out the final movie in a franchise that began in 1981. Giving Indy access to a time-travel device and then letting him...
Indiana Jones gets punched in the face. That’s how director James Mangold decided to end Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and final movie about the adventurous archaeologist. For some, the ending is the ultimate sign of disrespect, in which a broken Indy begs to be left in the past with Archimedes, only to get knocked out and dragged to the present by his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Others found it to be a bit of a stretch, taking Dr. Jones out of his element via time travel, and throwing him into an unfamiliar past with the aid of another wild MacGuffin.
But for Mangold, the ending was the only way to close out the final movie in a franchise that began in 1981. Giving Indy access to a time-travel device and then letting him...
- 7/5/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
The following piece contains spoilers about “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Considering “Raiders of the Lost Ark” ends with angels of death emerging from the Ark of the Covenant to melt the faces of multiple Nazis, it’s not like the Indiana Jones franchise is known specifically for its fidelity to reality. It was with that in mind that “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” director James Mangold devised his film’s finale: an audacious trip back in time to the Siege of Syracuse in 213 BC.
“Well, I never presented it as time travel. I never really thought of it as time travel,” Mangold explained in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “They certainly go through a portal in time at the end of the movie. But the movie isn’t about time travel. It’s about time, it’s about getting older and it’s about the world changing around you.
Considering “Raiders of the Lost Ark” ends with angels of death emerging from the Ark of the Covenant to melt the faces of multiple Nazis, it’s not like the Indiana Jones franchise is known specifically for its fidelity to reality. It was with that in mind that “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” director James Mangold devised his film’s finale: an audacious trip back in time to the Siege of Syracuse in 213 BC.
“Well, I never presented it as time travel. I never really thought of it as time travel,” Mangold explained in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “They certainly go through a portal in time at the end of the movie. But the movie isn’t about time travel. It’s about time, it’s about getting older and it’s about the world changing around you.
- 7/4/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The iconic treasure hunter Indiana Jones, whose exploits have been synonymous with the word ‘adventure’ in mainstream pop culture, was the brainchild of the visionary trio of George Lucas, Philip Kaufman, and Steven Spielberg. The character was conceptualized with fictional pulp action heroes like Doc Savage in mind, along with rowdy characters from the 40s and 50s features starring Alan Ladd and Gregory Peck. The character was famously imbued with Spielberg’s personal touches, as the director tried to make him fallible, relatable, and grounded even though the adventures he embarked on were epic in proportion. Actor Harrison Ford, who had portrayed the character in all five movies, was so attached to the character that he famously stated that the character would be gone when he decided to retire from acting; there would be no continuation with other actors. Needless to say, handling a character of such importance in the final movie of the franchise,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
This article contains all the spoilers for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
“I’m your goddamn partner!” When Marion Ravenwood shouted that declaration over the sounds of a burning bar and a Nepalese winter, she immediately cemented herself as the best companion for Indiana Jones. Sure, he’s been paired with other sidekicks, but none of them have lived up to the standard set by Marion. That is until Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Helena Shaw might seem like a second attempt at the Mutt Williams model from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Like Mutt, she sees Indy as a father figure. But with the aged Dr. Jones at a particularly low point, Helena has higher status in the movie, which works to bring out the best in a hero who’s more than long in the tooth.
“I’m your goddamn partner!” When Marion Ravenwood shouted that declaration over the sounds of a burning bar and a Nepalese winter, she immediately cemented herself as the best companion for Indiana Jones. Sure, he’s been paired with other sidekicks, but none of them have lived up to the standard set by Marion. That is until Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Helena Shaw might seem like a second attempt at the Mutt Williams model from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Like Mutt, she sees Indy as a father figure. But with the aged Dr. Jones at a particularly low point, Helena has higher status in the movie, which works to bring out the best in a hero who’s more than long in the tooth.
- 7/3/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Exotic tropical locations within or outside the planet Earth, over-the-top villains, manifestations of unbelievable conspiracy theories, catacombs riddled with death traps, and a swashbuckling wanderer in the lead were the key tropes in most 30’s and 40’s pulp fiction and comics representation of them. These acted as source material when influenced by them; visionary filmmakers like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Philip Kaufman brought the character Indiana Jones to life with the movie Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981), and the rest is, in the literal sense, history.
The sprawling set pieces, high-octane chase scenes, and a grand sense of wonder weaved by John William’s music added a certain novelty to the movie, which has marked subsequent releases too. With four entries strong, the Indiana Jones movie franchise has inspired numerous other ventures of world cinema in the last five decades. With the fifth and final entry of the franchise,...
The sprawling set pieces, high-octane chase scenes, and a grand sense of wonder weaved by John William’s music added a certain novelty to the movie, which has marked subsequent releases too. With four entries strong, the Indiana Jones movie franchise has inspired numerous other ventures of world cinema in the last five decades. With the fifth and final entry of the franchise,...
- 7/1/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
Spoiler Alert: This story discusses major plot developments, including the ending, of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” currently playing in theaters.
When director James Mangold started writing “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” with screenwriters Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, he didn’t know how the movie was going to end. Mangold inherited the film from director Steven Spielberg, who had been developing the project for three years with screenwriter David Koepp. When Mangold took over, he and the Butterworths started effectively from scratch, crafting a story in which Harrison Ford’s titular archeologist and Nazi puncher contends with his own age and irrelevance while chasing after the Antikythera, a mysterious device with the power to find fissures in time, created by the ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes.
Initially, the screenwriting team thought about ending the movie by returning to the film’s extended prologue in 1944, when...
When director James Mangold started writing “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” with screenwriters Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, he didn’t know how the movie was going to end. Mangold inherited the film from director Steven Spielberg, who had been developing the project for three years with screenwriter David Koepp. When Mangold took over, he and the Butterworths started effectively from scratch, crafting a story in which Harrison Ford’s titular archeologist and Nazi puncher contends with his own age and irrelevance while chasing after the Antikythera, a mysterious device with the power to find fissures in time, created by the ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes.
Initially, the screenwriting team thought about ending the movie by returning to the film’s extended prologue in 1944, when...
- 7/1/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
In June's "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," the titular Indiana (Harrison Ford) once again faces down a Nazi threat. The film's first scenes are set in 1944 when the Nazis are trying to make their escape as the Allies liberate Europe. Indiana and his friend Basil Shaw (played by Toby Jones) try to steal back the Lance of Longinus from the Nazis. But it turns out the Nazis have something much more interesting: Archimedes's Dial, aka the Antikythera. Indiana and Bas make off with it.
Later in the movie, Bas's daughter - and Indiana's goddaughter - Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) contacts Indiana for more info on the dial. The quest for the dial, she says, at least partially drove her dad mad, and viewers learn that Bas has died. The dial ends up sending Indiana and Helena on a globe-trotting adventure with tons of twists and turns.
But...
Later in the movie, Bas's daughter - and Indiana's goddaughter - Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) contacts Indiana for more info on the dial. The quest for the dial, she says, at least partially drove her dad mad, and viewers learn that Bas has died. The dial ends up sending Indiana and Helena on a globe-trotting adventure with tons of twists and turns.
But...
- 6/30/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
This article contains major Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny spoilers.
Indiana Jones is a character who invites you to dream about living in the past. This held true even in his inception, with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan cobbling together the character out of their shared nostalgia for old B-movie serials and adventure flicks from the Golden Age of Hollywood. He would be a rogue who’d stand as tall as they imagined the heroes of Gunga Din did, while also existing in a morally black and white 1930s world where you punched Nazis first and asked questions later.
Also by virtue of his profession as an archeologist, Indy extended that romance even further back in time. The greatest prizes he sought always contained the intertwining mystique of history and myth: presumably real artifacts so great that they disappeared into the hazy, halcyon mist of legend.
Indiana Jones is a character who invites you to dream about living in the past. This held true even in his inception, with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan cobbling together the character out of their shared nostalgia for old B-movie serials and adventure flicks from the Golden Age of Hollywood. He would be a rogue who’d stand as tall as they imagined the heroes of Gunga Din did, while also existing in a morally black and white 1930s world where you punched Nazis first and asked questions later.
Also by virtue of his profession as an archeologist, Indy extended that romance even further back in time. The greatest prizes he sought always contained the intertwining mystique of history and myth: presumably real artifacts so great that they disappeared into the hazy, halcyon mist of legend.
- 6/30/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
“If I could turn back time…” Cher sang in 1989, coincidentally the same year that the last great Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, came out. Rewinding the clock, both literally and figuratively, is very much on the minds of everyone involved in Indy’s fifth and apparently final adventure, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, as an aging Dr. Jones confronts his mortality, his regrets, and the sum total of his life’s accomplishments.
So it’s somehow appropriate that the MacGuffin which lures Indy out of his pending retirement for one last globe-trotting adventure is a device invented by the ancient Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes that might somehow alter the course of history. If our hero gets his hands on the device—which, naturally, has been split into three pieces—will he be tempted to tamper with it?
It’s an interesting idea, but...
So it’s somehow appropriate that the MacGuffin which lures Indy out of his pending retirement for one last globe-trotting adventure is a device invented by the ancient Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes that might somehow alter the course of history. If our hero gets his hands on the device—which, naturally, has been split into three pieces—will he be tempted to tamper with it?
It’s an interesting idea, but...
- 6/29/2023
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Chicago – By all accounts the Indiana Jones series had nowhere to go but up after the woebegone “Crystal Skull.” But “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” manages to clear that admittedly low bar to add a sense of adventure back to the tales of the graying archeologist. That said there’s a certain pointlessness to the whole endeavor.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The film begins with an extended opening sequence involving a de-aged Harrison Ford as Indy scrambling to recover stolen artifacts from the Nazis at the tail end of World War II. That’s when we first encounter the mythical “Dial of Destiny,” a relic from the mathematician Archimedes which can predict fissures in time and space. This throwback young Indy sequence represents a high water mark for Hollywood’s fascination with the technology. At first glance it actually does look like the Indy of old. Occasionally you’ll get a...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The film begins with an extended opening sequence involving a de-aged Harrison Ford as Indy scrambling to recover stolen artifacts from the Nazis at the tail end of World War II. That’s when we first encounter the mythical “Dial of Destiny,” a relic from the mathematician Archimedes which can predict fissures in time and space. This throwback young Indy sequence represents a high water mark for Hollywood’s fascination with the technology. At first glance it actually does look like the Indy of old. Occasionally you’ll get a...
- 6/28/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Amidst a sea of contrived sequels, prequels, reboots, and whathaveyous, there’s still something magical and nostalgia-inducing about seeing Harrison Ford adorn the screen once more, in the familiar, treasured role of Indiana Jones. Though the actor is having one last crack of the whip as the famed, hardboiled, stubbly-faced archaeologist, this is the first outing in the franchise without a certain Steven Spielberg at the helm, with the task of entertaining the masses falling instead onto the trustworthy shoulders of James Mangold. Which makes sense, for Spielberg has reached a somewhat introspective stage of his life. He’s busy looking back across his past – but not stepping into it.
We meet Indy, initially, back in the 1940s, at the tail end of the Second World War, where the Nazis have captured our eponymous protagonist alongside Professor Basil Shaw (Toby Jones) – a name so English it wouldn’t feel out...
We meet Indy, initially, back in the 1940s, at the tail end of the Second World War, where the Nazis have captured our eponymous protagonist alongside Professor Basil Shaw (Toby Jones) – a name so English it wouldn’t feel out...
- 6/28/2023
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
June has been a rough month at the box office for Disney, and Lucasfilm’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is more likely to continue that trend rather than reverse it.
Current box office projections have Harrison Ford’s final turn as the legendary archeologist making $65 million in its opening weekend, well below the $100 million 3-day opening of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” on Memorial Day weekend in 2008 and well short of the opening weekend needed for a film with a reported production budget of around $295 million.
The summer started well for Disney with Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which passed $350 million in North America this past weekend and has given the MCU another hit with $831 million worldwide, currently standing as the second-highest grossing film of the year behind only “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
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Current box office projections have Harrison Ford’s final turn as the legendary archeologist making $65 million in its opening weekend, well below the $100 million 3-day opening of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” on Memorial Day weekend in 2008 and well short of the opening weekend needed for a film with a reported production budget of around $295 million.
The summer started well for Disney with Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which passed $350 million in North America this past weekend and has given the MCU another hit with $831 million worldwide, currently standing as the second-highest grossing film of the year behind only “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
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- 6/27/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Take a look at more footage from the upcoming supernatural action feature "Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny", directed by James Mangold ("Logan"), starring Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook and Shaunette Renée Wilson, opening in theaters June 30, 2023:
"...In 1944, during World War II, American archaeologist 'Indiana Jones' and his colleague 'Basil Shaw' are in Europe to recover artifacts stolen by the Germans. They prevent 'Jürgen Voller', a Third Reich scientist, from obtaining the 'Archimedes Dial', a device capable of time travel.
"Twenty-five years later, Jones is uneasy over the fact that the U.S. government has recruited former enemies to help beat the Soviet Union in the 'Space Race'.
"He is about to be forced into retirement from his teaching position because of his opposition to the practice, while Voller, now a 'NASA' member involved with the 'Apollo Moon'-landing program...
"... wishes to make...
"...In 1944, during World War II, American archaeologist 'Indiana Jones' and his colleague 'Basil Shaw' are in Europe to recover artifacts stolen by the Germans. They prevent 'Jürgen Voller', a Third Reich scientist, from obtaining the 'Archimedes Dial', a device capable of time travel.
"Twenty-five years later, Jones is uneasy over the fact that the U.S. government has recruited former enemies to help beat the Soviet Union in the 'Space Race'.
"He is about to be forced into retirement from his teaching position because of his opposition to the practice, while Voller, now a 'NASA' member involved with the 'Apollo Moon'-landing program...
"... wishes to make...
- 6/27/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Teddy (Ethann Isidore), Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) in Lucasfilm’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ (Photo © 2023 Lucasfilm Ltd)
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should. Case in point: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Harrison Ford was game to reprise his role as the Nazi-hating, snake-loathing archaeologist, and there seemed to be, if not demand, at least an interest in another Indy adventure. Unfortunately, the lack of a compelling story or memorable action scenes results in a missed opportunity and a rather lackluster conclusion to the blockbuster franchise.
Dial of Destiny time travels back to the 1940s to explain the film’s title and set up the retrieval of the archaeologically important centerpiece. The flashback gives us a Harrison Ford at about the age he was in Raiders of the Lost Ark, courtesy of some groundbreaking VFX technology.
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should. Case in point: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Harrison Ford was game to reprise his role as the Nazi-hating, snake-loathing archaeologist, and there seemed to be, if not demand, at least an interest in another Indy adventure. Unfortunately, the lack of a compelling story or memorable action scenes results in a missed opportunity and a rather lackluster conclusion to the blockbuster franchise.
Dial of Destiny time travels back to the 1940s to explain the film’s title and set up the retrieval of the archaeologically important centerpiece. The flashback gives us a Harrison Ford at about the age he was in Raiders of the Lost Ark, courtesy of some groundbreaking VFX technology.
- 6/20/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
It’s been 15 years since Steven Spielberg had the Indiana Jones character dust off his famed fedora and whip to return to the silver screen. And while Kingdom of the Crystal Skull eventually settled into a sillier, less exciting reworking of past Indiana Jones adventures, its opening act brought something fresh and exciting to the series with its pulpy rendering of Cold War paranoia and 1950s America. Sure, the film gave us the rightly derided scene where Jones (Harrison Ford) survived an atomic blast by hiding in a refrigerator, but for a spell, it at least served as a compelling arena for another of the irascible archeologist’s rousing adventures.
Set in 1969, just after the flower children of the Summer of Love began to wilt and myriad civil rights and political leaders were assassinated, James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny could have mined this new cultural...
Set in 1969, just after the flower children of the Summer of Love began to wilt and myriad civil rights and political leaders were assassinated, James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny could have mined this new cultural...
- 6/16/2023
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is a dutifully eager but ultimately rather joyless piece of nostalgic hokum. It’s the fifth installment of the “Indiana Jones” franchise, and though it has its quota of “relentless” action, it rarely tries to match (let alone top) the ingeniously staged kinetic bravura of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” How could it? “Raiders,” whatever one thinks of it as a movie (I always found it a trace impersonal in its ’40s-action-serial-on-steroids excitement), is arguably the most influential blockbuster of the last 45 years, even more so than “Star Wars.”
Back in 1977, George Lucas took us through the looking glass of what would become our all-fantasy-all-the-time movie culture. But it was Steven Spielberg, teaming up with Lucas in “Raiders,” who introduced the structural DNA of the one-thing-after-another, action-movie-as-endless-set-piece escapist machine. This means that “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” isn’t just coming...
Back in 1977, George Lucas took us through the looking glass of what would become our all-fantasy-all-the-time movie culture. But it was Steven Spielberg, teaming up with Lucas in “Raiders,” who introduced the structural DNA of the one-thing-after-another, action-movie-as-endless-set-piece escapist machine. This means that “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” isn’t just coming...
- 5/18/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
One of the best lines in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” – which is to say, one of the best lines in the entire, now-five-film saga of Indiana Jones – comes when Harrison Ford’s intrepid archaeologist and part-time Nazi hunter lies on a bed, bruised, battered and aching pretty much everywhere. When his girlfriend, Marion (Karen Allen), comments on how many years he’s been doing the punishing gig, Ford ad-libbed, “It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.”
Well, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which premiered on Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival, is about the years and the mileage. Then it’s about the years some more because the semi-supernatural twist this time around involves time travel.
The film is full of action, stunts and escapes from Nazis, because that’s what “Indiana Jones” movies are. It relies heavily on the charm and charisma...
Well, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which premiered on Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival, is about the years and the mileage. Then it’s about the years some more because the semi-supernatural twist this time around involves time travel.
The film is full of action, stunts and escapes from Nazis, because that’s what “Indiana Jones” movies are. It relies heavily on the charm and charisma...
- 5/18/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
There must be 50 ways to escape a Nazi. Over the 2 hours and 22 minutes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, we see Indy and his ragtag entourage drive planes, trains and automobiles through the streets of New York, Tangiers and somewhere picturesque in Sicily, hijack two getaway tuk-tuks, ride a horse at full pelt through the New York subway tunnels, and fly a vintage plane through a “time fissure” to land right in the middle of – well, we can’t say too much, but the kind of place and time that would be Indy’s idea of Shangri-la. “Too many Nazis!” growls Indy, just before he leaps from a speeding train hundreds of yards down into a churning river. Sometimes, the essence of being an adventuring hero is to know when to put the bullwhip down and get out of Dodge.
Dial of Destiny is the first installment in...
Dial of Destiny is the first installment in...
- 5/18/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Harrison Ford returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, picking up an honorary Palme d’Or before the world-premiere screening of Disney/Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
In similar fashion to the tribute held for Tom Cruise last year, Ford was fêted with a career highlights reel and received a thunderous ovation from the crowd inside the Grand Theatre Lumière.
After an introduction by Cannes head Theirry Fremaux — that included shoutouts to Disney’s Bob Iger, Indy producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall and the cast including Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller Bridge Ford and his wife Calista Flockhart and director James Mangold – the reel, set to one of themes from Star Wars, showed off clips from Ford faves the Frisco Kid, Working Girl, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, American Graffiti, K9: The Widowmaker, Air Force One, Mosquito Coast, The Fugitive and the cantina scene from Star Wars,...
In similar fashion to the tribute held for Tom Cruise last year, Ford was fêted with a career highlights reel and received a thunderous ovation from the crowd inside the Grand Theatre Lumière.
After an introduction by Cannes head Theirry Fremaux — that included shoutouts to Disney’s Bob Iger, Indy producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall and the cast including Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller Bridge Ford and his wife Calista Flockhart and director James Mangold – the reel, set to one of themes from Star Wars, showed off clips from Ford faves the Frisco Kid, Working Girl, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, American Graffiti, K9: The Widowmaker, Air Force One, Mosquito Coast, The Fugitive and the cantina scene from Star Wars,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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