Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Friday Reviews for 7 July 2023

This week: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Sugar and Stars, Joy Ride, and Insidious: The Red Door (all in theatres); All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (DocPlay); and Nimona (Netflix)

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Dan Slevin
Jul 07, 2023
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The new Indiana Jones film kicks off with an energetic romp around (and on top of) a moving train. It’s a flashback to a period of Indy’s life that we have heard about in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – as an agent for the OSS at the end of World War II attempting to save priceless antiquities from the Nazis – and it serves two purposes. Firstly, to …

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