PopaHALLics #103 "Indiana Jones & The Last Movie"
We review "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" and speculate why Harrison Ford's final outing in the brown fedora is doing poorly at the box office. For those of you not into 80-year-old action heroes, we also discuss season 2 of "The Bear," the new "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," and "Violent Night," about a drunken embittered Santa on a slay ride. Get it?
In Theaters:
- "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge want to stop ex-Nazi Mads Mikkelsen from bending the laws of time and space. James Mangold, not Steven Spielberg, directs.
- "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse." Brooklyn's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man Miles Morales clashes with a team of Spider-People tasked with protecting the Multiverse in this animated adventure.
Streaming:
- "The Bear," Hulu. In season 2 of the dramedy, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) tries to turn his neighborhood hot-sandwich joint into fine dining while still dealing with his rough crew. A recipe for disaster?
- "Violent Night," Prime and rental. Bad guys better watch out when a drunken, embittered Santa (David Harbour) interrupts a home invasion in this violent action comedy. Ho, ho, KA-POW!
- "Peggy Sue Got Married," rental. Steve revisits this 1986 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola and has some reservations about it this time around. A struggling middle-aged woman (Kathleen Turner) is transported back to her senior year of high school.
Whoops!
Two mistakes we caught post-editing: That's Buddy Holly himself singing the theme song in "Peggy Sue Got Married"—not Marshall Crenshaw, as Steve says. And the actress we're trying to remember in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"? Kate Capshaw, who screams a lot in that movie. How could we forget?
A Movie-Themed Playlist
Popahallics #103 Playlist features music used in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse," "Peggy Sue Got Married," and "The Bear." For "Violent Night," we got creative with songs about bad Santas. Enjoy!