TV #2 of 2026: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, season 1 The show The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles originally aired from 1992 to 1996, with Corey Carrier playing the future archaeologist from age 8–10 and Sean Patrick Flanery performing the role for ages 16–21. In 1999, these episodes were then combined with new bridge …
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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 …
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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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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Movie #20 of 2025: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Neither Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) nor Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ever mentioned that the titular archaeologist’s father was a fellow antiquities scholar, but he fits seamlessly into the plot of this third film in a way that, for …
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Movie #18 of 2025: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) I’ve long held that this second Indiana Jones feature is the worst of its series (or of the original trilogy, at least), which in consequence has meant that I’ve probably seen it the least often. And though I tried to approach this rewatch …
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Movie #17 of 2025: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) There are some movies that I think, if you see them when you’re young enough, you can never hope to be truly objective about their qualities. Such is the case with Raiders of the Lost Ark (retroactively retitled Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the …
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