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Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Harrison Ford as Helena Shaw and Indiana Jones in 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.' Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. Even though the plot was a recycling of the original Indiana Jones adventures from the '80s, it was still good to see Harrison Ford go out for one last quest with his signature bullwhip, leather jacket, and trusty fedora in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny . There were also great lengths of humorous treachery by Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Indy's latest partner-in-crime and intrepid scoring from John Williams , as usual. Now set in the Space Age in the late 1960s, Indiana Jones is retiring from his professor position and has become lonely and bitter. But a younger archaeologist named Helena Shaw , played by Waller-Bridge, brings him back to his audacious ways to hunt for an artifact called the Dial of Destiny . Among many obstacles against Jones and Shaw are a twisted physicist, played by Mads Mikkelsen , an enemy of Jon...

Photo of Solo: A Star Wars Story poster taken at AMC Garden State Plaza. Courtesy of William Edward Beavers, V  Ron Howard's direction of Solo: A S tar Wars Story was filled with raw power and adventure at every turn. Combining top-notch acting performances with the media franchise's usual gleaming visual effects, a well-arranged score by John Powell and theme music from John Williams, and moving components to the story, Solo really is something exciting for Star Wars fans (or non- Star Wars fans) to see. Set before he met Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, young Han Solo (played by Alden Ehrenreich) encounters criminal syndicate organizations who put his home world in competitions for necessities such as hyperfuel. By joining forces with his lover Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke, mentor Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson), original Millennium Falcon owner Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover/ "Childish Gambino:), and his long-term sidekick Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), Solo gets the...