Popdose: Indy (and indies)

This week: An Indy you may have heard about, and also a handful of others--Postal, The Children of Huang Shi, and Stuart Gordon's Stuck--that may be as hard to find as a kingdom of a crystal skull, given a changing and challenging marketplace for lower-budgeted and -profile film fare.

Like, far out, dude

From Mr. Smith to Mr. Jones: The title of the fourth Indiana Jones picture (opening next May 22) is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Which sounds to me like a Doors or King Crimson song title circa 1967, and which will definitely turn up on marquees as simply Indiana Jones. That I prefer. There is no truth to the rumor that the bad guy will be played by bad boy Brit artist Damien Hirst, he of the $100 million diamond-encrusted skull. The curious will however find that there is quite a bit to this skulduggery.