Subject: Indiana Jones

• Tonight @ Koo's: Sir Richard Bishop (Q&A/MP3s inside)

  SIR RICHARD BISHOP: THOSE SECRETS WILL NEVER BE REVEALED Sir Richard Bishop might be a gypsy jazz guitarist because he could probably and sometimes does play like Django, but he's got gypsy restlessness in more than his fingertips; he's the Indiana Jones of the fingerstyle guitar, taking research excursions—sure they are!—to least-visited places to scout music for his brother Alan's superlative Sublime Frequencies label (home of the hits from Iraq, North Korea, the Far East, Afric

  November 9, 2006

• 20th Century Fox pulls out of Comic-Con

  As reported in this week's Comic-Con preview by yours truly, Fox was set to showcase upcoming movie releases including Aliens Vs. Predator, Babylon A.D. and Jumper. The LA Times is reporting that the studio decided their footage "wasn't ready." JoBlo.com writes that this may be the result of a dispute stemming from last year's Con, where Fox debuted the naked fight scene from Borat in its entirety, with no forewarning of the content. At the time, I blogged that "I couldn't believe this [footag

  July 19, 2007

• Comic-Con 2007: The Beginning

  This is the real ghost train. San Diego, Wednesday night, downtown, after dark. All that's here is a smattering of oases of light, from cheap drug stores to greasy spoons offering a "really big Taco Plate" for $3.50. The streets, for now, are mostly empty, and those riding the trolley around you are dirty and old, with faces that bespeak hard labor for too little pay...and judging by the content of their mouths, no dental insurance. The allegedly spooky rides at the OC Fair have been easily be

  July 26, 2007

• Comic-Con 2007: Of Paramount Disappointment, plus Jessica Alba and Peter Fonda

  Damn, the lines here suck. Used to be that Comic-Con got bigger every year, and they expanded the available space to fit. Then the space ran out, and stuff kept getting bigger anyway. I wait in line half an hour for the Paramount panel, and don't even get close to getting in. Regroup. An hour later, get in line an hour early for the Lionsgate panel. Line is all the way to the back loading dock. I get in. But this astonishes me: after all that wait, once initial guest Jessica Alba is done, half

  July 27, 2007

• Comic-Con 2007: It figures, Dr. Jones

  Hasbro just unveiled the new Indiana Jones figures, all three based on Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones, Ceremonial Belloq with Idol, and Sallah). They're Star Wars scale, with high articulation (the only one not fully-posable is a version of Indy with whip-cracking action) and attention to detail. The line will be launched with a mix of figures from Raiders and the new fourth film, but Temple of Doom and Last Crusade will be represented later. "No comment" on vehicles, but they do not ha

  July 27, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 5-21-08

  Film pick of the weekend comes early this week, because when weekends go long, the movies open sooner. And we all know what you're going to go see at midnight tonight. I call it INDIANA JONES AND THE KICKING OF YOUR CRYSTAL ASS. (Don't tell me that "crystal ass" makes no sense. If Echo and the Bunnymen can sing about shattering your crystal heart, I can move the metaphor to other regions of the body.) [EDIT: A friend posing as an anonymous reader informed me via my personal blog that the Echo

  May 21, 2008

• THE REG-O-METER WEEK ENDING MAY 24

  While Rich Kane is out celebrating the legality of gay marriage for the next two weeks, I have been placed with the distinguished duty of operating the Reg-o-Meter. It’s an honor and all but . . . I think it’s broken—mostly because I’m not as funny as he is. Anyway, here we go. Monday, May 19 ●With all the hubbub about The Reggie Mom Blog’s MILF controversy, I figured it was time to check out what OC dads had to gripe about on The Dad Blog. Would they post about drinking beer an

  May 24, 2008

• $35-Per-Seat Movie Theater Planned for Costa Mesa

  I just saw the latest Indiana Jones at a second-run cinema. It cost me $2. It was worth exactly that. Before the flick, I had dinner. It was $6. Clearly, the people at Village Roadshow -- the Australian entertainment company -- did not have people like me in mind when they envisioned their Gold Class Cinemas, a luxury $35-a-seat movie theater planned for three Southern California locations next year, including at Costa Mesa's Triangle Square. What do you get for the money? Reclining chair

  September 11, 2008

• Good Pop, Bad Pop

  July 27, 2000

• Drinkin for Jesus

  December 28, 2000

• Treatment Progress Update

  May 17, 2001

• The Hunger Artists' 'Flying Spaghetti Monster: The Holy Mug of Grog' Wreaks Holiday Havoc

  December 11, 2008

• Jeffrey Katzenberg's Cure-All for an Ailing Movie Economy, In All Three Dimensions

  December 25, 2008

• Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People, and They Bring Him to Life in 'Ghost Town'

  September 18, 2008

• Summer '08: Batman Saved the Season, While a Little 'Sex' Went a Long Way and the Indies Went South

  September 4, 2008

• 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' Is the Latest Chapter of a Franchise That's Seen Better Days

  July 31, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] Hommes & Femmes Vitales

  July 24, 2008

• Brendan Fraser Falls Into a Deep, Deep Hole in 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'

  July 10, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Movies to Look Forward to Now That Indy and Carrie Bradshaw Have Used Up All the Hype

  June 12, 2008

• The Terra Cotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang March Into the Bowers Museum

  June 5, 2008

• [Cannes Report] Cannes Comebacks: Mike Tyson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Terence Davies and More

  May 29, 2008

• [Cannes Report] 'Che' Wins Cannes! Or At Least the Only Cannes Award That Really Matters: Ours

  May 29, 2008

• [Cannes Report] Shots in the Dark: Reflecting Its Moment, Cannes 2008 Takes a Decidedly Serious Tone

  May 22, 2008

• 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' Is Its Own Temple of Doom

  May 22, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

  May 15, 2008

• Quan Minh Ky in Westminster's Little Saigon Serves Up Deer, Alligator, Goat, Frogs, Wild Boar, More

  April 3, 2008

• Pity the Fool

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! There is no gold at the end of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up

  February 7, 2008

• DVD-ish

  Singular Sensation

  December 20, 2007

• DVDish

  The Boys Are Back

  October 25, 2007

• Surf City Celluloid

  The SoCal Independent Film Fest goes big

  August 30, 2007

• 2007: a Comic-Con Odyssey

  Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love sleep deprivation, huge crowds and wonderful toys

  August 9, 2007

• The Big Con

  Out of the basement and into the spotlight, Comic-Con 2007 is the place to be

  July 19, 2007

• Peeping Bomb

  With Hitchcock in its rear window, bland voyeur thriller Disturbia does its best not to perturb(ia)
  

  April 12, 2007

• Same Old Story

  Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

  January 4, 2007

• Planet of Sound

  Sir Richard Bishops earth tones

  November 2, 2006

• Cracked Code

  May 18, 2006

• Letters

  February 16, 2006

• Death Warmed Over

  Bowers mummies are creepy for all the wrong reasons

  May 12, 2005

• FESTIVAL OVERVIEW

  April 14, 2005

• Played

  February 10, 2005

• Fool's Gold

  January 6, 2005

• Slime Pickings

  August 19, 2004

• Tibet!

  December 4, 2003

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• Indiana Jones and the Throbbing Temples of Doom

  July 5, 2001

• The Safety Dance

  January 7, 1999

• 45 rides. 16 hours. One man. Disneyland in a day!

  September 17, 1998

• Disney's Inferno

  September 17, 1998

• Diver Down

  August 13, 1998

• Dishney: California Adventure Dreamin' With Bob Weis

  The concept art of the Carthay Circle TheatreWith recent announcements of the complete re-vamping of that other park, Disney's California Adventure seem to have a bright future ahead, abandoning its current concept of a California-themed theme park in uh, California, and replacing it with something  that revolves more around nostalgia--old Hollywood, movie palaces, sprays of bougainvillea, a Victorian seaside town. And the person in charge of overseeing the complete $1 billion re-vamping o

  July 15, 2009