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Because you dissed the Star Wars prequels, George Lucas has sworn he won't ever make another movie about that faraway galaxy. He says, "Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?" More »
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Remember Mr. Plinkett, that disgusting old coot who dissected The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Star Trek, and Avatar? Now he's turned his foul, critical eye toward Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull. Learn the various plot failings of the film, all narrated in an hour-plus of horribly hypnotic geriatric slurring. I love it when Mr. Plinkett begins spitballing about Indiana Jones going to Siberia and the number of diseases that should've killed him by now.

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The 2009 summer movie season ended, with a record-breaking box office. But 2009 will also go down as the year with the most movies that cost $200 million or more. We've compiled the most expensive movies of the past decade. More »
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What would Indiana Jones 4 have been like without Shia LaBoeuf's cocky young character Mutt? Now you can find out for yourself, thanks to a leaked copy of Frank Darabont's draft of the Indy 4 script that's floating around the internet. (It should be pretty easy to find via Google — and people seem to think it's genuine, but you never know.) Bottom line: It's a bit more exciting, but still pretty hokey. And it features some mean-ass aliens. Spoilers for a movie you'll never see, after the jump. More »
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If only Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull had been as dynamic as the movie's concept art. A gorgeous new book from Lucas Books and Ballantine, The Complete Making Of Indiana Jones, is chock full of art and production photos for Skull that make me feel a bit wistful for the finished product. Catacombs lit by glowing alien devices, shimmering skeletons and the obligatory exploding heads, all burst with so much promise that was never quite realized. Click through for a shiny gallery. More »
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At least two things happened in the world of science and fiction last week, and one was cool and the other was crap. More »
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Spoilers are mind-expanding! To prove it, we have a new clip from Angelina Jolie's mega-assassin movie Wanted, and some last-minute spoilers from Indiana Jones. Plus what to expect from the next few episodes of Battlestar Galactica, direct from producer Ron Moore. There are also tons of details about the fifth season of Stargate: Atlantis, including some new political troubles for the team. And a new hint about the upcoming Lost finale. This is your only spoiler warning. More »
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A bunch of new publicity photos came out for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull — and Cate Blanchett looks totally smoking hot as an evil Soviet agent. I'd had my doubts about her weird hairdo before, but seeing some of the close-up publicity shots has converted me to Cate's brand of Communism. Some of the photos are ones we've featured before, but in better picture quality (or without a stray fender head.) Click through for a gallery. More »
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Indiana Jones will have a bit of a crisis of confidence at the start of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, in which he'll question his place in the universe. It'll be a moving and tragic meditation on aging, worthy of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. How do I know this? Bubble gum cards told me, of course. Topps bubble-gum cards, and the "Official Guide" to the new Indy movie, have come out, revealing pretty much all of the movie's plot points. Here's your spoiler warning, and away we go! More »
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A new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer leaked out early, and it explains a little bit more about the mythology behind that skull and why everybody wants it. And as usual, people try to shoot, hit, blow up and drop things on Indy. Spoilers and details after the jump. More »
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Click to viewWill Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull feature Indy ducking CGI boulders and reacting to greenscreen aliens? Not according to production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, who also worked on Superman Returns and X2: X-Men United. We just talked to Dyas, who says he built all of the movie's sets, with little or no greenscreen. More details, and a gallery of Dyas' designs from Superman and X2, after the jump. More »
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Shia LaBoeuf will be the dorky straight man to Harrison Ford's wisecracking old-timer in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This new TV trailer shows a bit more of the duo's dynamic, and there's a lot of Shia gaping while Indy does something daring or smirkingly calls him a genius. I'm also surer than ever that I will run out and buy a Cate Blanchett action figure at the first opportunity. More »
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The latest Entertainment Weekly features this exclusive picure from the new Indiana Jones movie, and adds more weight to the rumors that it's about aliens. In this image, Indy, Marion and Mutt (Shia LaBeouf) race through a Peruvian jungle in their amphibious vehicle, racing some Russians to find the Temple of the eponymous Crystal Skull. And click through for spoiler/rumors. More »
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has a new photograph out today, all packed with cobwebs and spiders. It also looks like Shia LaBeouf's uniform throughout the film will be his greaser biker jacket, helping hammer home the whole "Hey, I'm a teenaged rebel, man!" attitude. If he picks up the whip once and swings it, we're calling shenanigans. We've got the full story on what's happening in this photo. More »
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be hitting theater screens on May 22nd, marking nineteen years since we've seen the whip-swinging archeaologist going after mysterious antiquities and occasionally teaching school. However, George Lucas thinks that both critics and fans alike will hate the movie. Find out why he told Vanity Fair (that glossy scifi rag) you'll be scowling at Indy this summer. More »
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Steven Spielberg has yanked the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind out of mothballs, and plans to stick them in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when Indiana accidentally finds Area 51. More »
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