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Mary McNamara: The new 'Indiana Jones' trailer will make you nostalgic — for a thriving movie culture

The official trailer for "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" dropped last week and I am so excited it's embarrassing. I knew it was coming and I thought I was prepared, in my jaded covered-this-business-for-decades way. But I wasn't. I laughed, I cried, I watched it five times in a row and immediately marked its June 30 opening on the calendar. Not the one on my phone; the old-fashioned ...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, left, and Harrison Ford onscreen at the "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" presentation during the studio panel at Star Wars Celebration 2023 at ExCel on April 7, 2023, in London.

The official trailer for "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" dropped last week and I am so excited it's embarrassing.

I knew it was coming and I thought I was prepared, in my jaded covered-this-business-for-decades way.

But I wasn't. I laughed, I cried, I watched it five times in a row and immediately marked its June 30 opening on the calendar.

Not the one on my phone; the old-fashioned paper one that hangs beside the refrigerator. Then I watched the trailer one — OK, two more times.

Like I said: embarrassing.

After years of relative radio silence, Harrison Ford is suddenly everywhere, playing a craggy

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