Shia LaBeouf and Harrison Ford in the latest installment of Indiana Jones

No, Indiana Jones doesn't come out of the closet in this latest installment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but the macho man does seem a bit older and wiser—and he's still single nearly two decades since the third Indiana Jones installment. In fact, as the mild-mannered professor/adventurer, Harrison Ford plays his characteristic role almost as if he's celibate and uptight. He seems even more uptight when a young greaser kid named Mutt, played by Shia LaBeouf, follows him around like a puppy dog.

Lanky LaBeouf looks more like something from a Village People tribute band, dressed in leather with his hair slicked back. While hosting a recent Saturday Night Live show, LaBeouf played a running joke as the son of a TV action star (MacGruber, like MacGyver) and he keeps telling his father that he's gay, or experimenting with guys, in scene after scene and they keep getting blown up.

The only thing sexual that Indy does (other than some lip-locking with his old gal pal Marion, played by Karen Allen from The Raiders of the Lost Ark) is when he is getting scrubbed after surviving a nuclear explosion. When the guys brushing his genitals seem to be getting a little too personal, he re-adjusts them.

Ray Winstone plays one of Indy's old close buddies named Mac, but it's not clear what side he's really on, so Mac says, "Remember Berlin" to his friend. Later, he reminds Indy that in Berlin they were playing both sides of the fence. Indy remembers, but seems to want to forget.

Robert Downey Jr soars in 'Iron Man'

Iron Man has revived the career of troubled actor Robert Downey Jr., who has described himself as an "eccentric bisexual" and has played many bi-leaning characters in Black and White, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Wonder Boys, Less Than Zero and more. In Iron Man, Downey plays Tony Stark who's an arrogant booze-swilling playboy who begins the film flirting with both the guy and gal soldiers while in a war-torn area of the Middle East. He is too nattily dressed and perfectly coiffed to be totally straight, and he completely ignores his very hot assistant, Pepper Potts, played by Gwyneth Paltrow. He seems more interested in the rather fey solider buddy of his played by Terrence Howard. When he is shown with women, he does some obsessive kissing and love-making almost as if he's out to prove something.

After he gets kidnapped and is kept in a cave to build a big missile, he instead bursts out as an invincible man of iron. Every superhero has a dual identity which bisexuals may seem to relate to, but Stark seems to parade himself around rather blatantly and without too much hidden. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that Downey may consider this yet another one of his bisexual portrayals.

Emile Hirsch in 'Speed Racer'

Speed Racer has always had that aura of youthful innocence. The animated cartoon featured those wide-eyed characters with mouths that don't move to their voices, and the bright eye-popping reds, blues and yellows which are all evident in this live-action version. But, it hasn't done very well despite the helming of the Wachowski brothers.

How funny to know that director Larry Wachowski is long rumored to be undergoing a sex re-assignment to become a woman, and therefore the scene with Korean pop star Rain is even more funny when he's shown dressing up like a woman in an elaborate scheme for revenge.

Speedy, played by Emile Hirsch, who has done sexually ambiguous roles in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and The Mudge Boy, wears a purple suit and a scarf and rarely if ever touches his girlfriend Trixie. Speedy's mom is played by Susan Sarandon, known for plenty of bi roles, most notably Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the gal seduced by Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger. Then, there's also the scene where Racer X pulls off the pants of a ninja who's wearing patterned white boxers.

Ben Barnes plays the new Prince in 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is the other new hunk among the summer blockbusters. This latest installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series is still filled with pseudo-religious symbolism, but it can be looked at in a lot of different ways, too, especially with the half-naked centaurs and other creatures roaming around Narnia.

Created by C.S. Lewis, this story is much more brutal than The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and it ultimately deals with puberty and the coming of age. Ben Barnes, who was in Stardust, plays the new Prince who doesn't believe in the fantasy creatures of Narnia. The four brothers and sisters return to the world and William Moseley, as King Peter, immediately raises his jealously hackles and feels threatened, if not intrigued, by the equally handsome heir-apparent of the kingdom. But, Caspian is more interested in Peter's sister Susan, played by Anna Popplewell.

The story of Narnia is about a band of diverse misfits that no one believes in who unite to gain acceptance and understanding. They need both the guys and girls to help them in this quest, and it doesn't matter if the rest of the humankind just leaves them alone. Sound familiar?

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Tidbits in mainstream movies that have a bit of a bisexual bent.

Leatherheads. The macho film directed by and starring hunk George Clooney didn't do so well at the box office, but it's a cute film despite the overplaying by Renee Zellweger. When Clooney's character is trying to get her attention while she's being bugged by an obnoxious guy named Leonard, Clooney makes her laugh by saying, "It was Leonard I was in love with until you came along." Did guys even joke about that in the roaring '20s?

21. In this story about math students breaking the bank by creating a number counting system in Las Vegas, cute lead character Ben Campbell, played by Jim Sturgess, gets a raise to $8 an hour at the clothing store he works at and his colleague at the store teases him saying that he slept with the male married suit store manager.

Mister Lonely. Although not particularly bisexual, a commune of celebrity impersonators who live in a remote castle are comprised of a cast of characters that have bi histories. There's a James Dean, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Abe Lincoln, Sammy Davis Jr. and Michael Jackson in this film by Harmony Korine who previously wrote and directed Gummo.

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. The two pot-smoking doofuses go to a pantless party where all the girls are bottomless, but when their hairy friend greets them as the sole male of the party, they cringe—yes, they show both male and female nudity. There's also a scene where they're nearly forced to give a prison guard a blowjob. Most importantly, when Neil Patrick Harris once again plays himself in the movie, and talks about all the babes he's slept with, why isn't one of them piping up and saying, "Hey, I thought you came out of the closet?" That is after all, what Harris has done in between his Harold and Kumar appearances.

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