THE DANMAN CAN

With the recent passing of the legendary Sean Connery (R.I.P), I thought it fitting to revisit one of my favorite films featuring one of my favorite performances by him. The great thing about the Indiana Jones  movies is that they're not sequential so you can watch any of them at any time without feeling like you  need to brush up on previous events or that you're missing out on anything. The third in what was intended to be (and in my opinion should have remained) a trilogy, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) is a special film to me for personal reasons: I saw it with my grandfather in its original theatrical run. I clearly remember 9-year-old me having an absolute blast at the cinema and I recall my Da (that's what we called grandpa) loving it as well.  Though I still slightly prefer 1981's  Raiders Of The Lost Ark  (I consider it the quintessential action/adventure film), Last Crusade is probably the Indy flick that I've watched the most. Well, it m...

Spielberg (2017) is a very enjoyable doc about one of our greatest living directors and arguably one of the greatest directors ever. I kind of wish the director of this doc/HBO had chosen to make this a multi-part serial though. I would have liked a more comprehensive delve into each and every film (not to mention the man's many endeavors outside of just directing). Some were barely touched upon ( Always  (1989) was curiously the only one of his films not even mentioned, unless I blinked and missed it) and not enough time was spent on the Indy films IMO. You can find my Steven   Spielberg  Feature Films Ranked list here . And if you are so inclined please check out the special Spielberg  episode of the Movie Matters Podcast that I guested on  here .

A perfect genre film. IMAX was pretty great overall.