Indiana Jones was the second in a new feature I’m calling Film Franchise Fridays, where I pick a movie series and watch one picture a week until the end. Before that was Jason Bourne, and up next after the holiday will probably be The Matrix (so far all examples where I know I’ve missed at …
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Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Movie #24 of 2025: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Never say never in Hollywood, but the press statements from star Harrison Ford and current Lucasfilm owner Disney have all indicated that this fifth Indiana Jones movie is meant to stand as the final entry in that long-running saga, which began four decades …
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Book Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny by Simon R. Green
Book #180 of 2025: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny by Simon R. Green (Nightside #10) One of the weaker entries in this 2000s urban fantasy series, which is unfortunate, since it also directly sets up the endgame and includes the deaths of some fairly major recurring characters. But plotwise, this is a mess. …
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TV Review: 12 Monkeys, season 1
TV #55 of 2025: 12 Monkeys, season 1 There’s a fun Fringe vibe running through the first year of this Syfy program, and not only because Kirk Acevedo is around in a supporting role. Like that earlier show, it also offers a story that deepens as it goes along and starts digging into the personal …
Book Review: The Strength of the Few by James Islington
Book #179 of 2025: The Strength of the Few by James Islington (Hierarchy #2) I don’t really know what to do with this title, rating-wise. I have major critiques about its structure that I’ll get into below, but taking every section on its own terms, I suppose I’ve enjoyed the unfolding story and how it …
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TV Review: Wednesday, season 2
TV #54 of 2025: Wednesday, season 2 I gave the first season of this Addams Family modernization a rave review, praising its heroine, plot, comedy, and tone, but I’m afraid I’m rather cooler on this belated follow-up. (Seriously, I know this is not an issue limited to Netflix, but taking three years to produce eight …
Movie Review: Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023)
Movie #23 of 2025: Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023) This is, for now, the latest screen entry in the winding Babylon 5 franchise, though there’s no indication that it’s meant to represent a conclusion or anything. In fact, this title is a prequel of sorts — taking place near the end of the TV …
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Movie Review: The Ewok Adventure (1984)
Movie #22 of 2025: The Ewok Adventure (1984) My daughters (aged 6 and 4) lost interest midway through both A New Hope and The Phantom Menace, so I decided to see if this TV movie from the 1980s — later retitled to Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, though I’ve never called it by that …
TV Review: The Sopranos, season 4
TV #53 of 2025: The Sopranos, season 4 Another season of this family/crime drama that’s only periodically at its most effective, although the finale does a lot to clarify how the gradual dissolution of the central marriage ought to have been our primary focus all along. Unfortunately, however, the year leading up to that terrific …
Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Movie #21 of 2025: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) After nearly two decades, the Indiana Jones trilogy of the 1980s got another big-screen outing, although the brand had survived in the meantime with a succession of video game projects, a TV show about the character’s childhood adventures, and the like. …
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