London photo of the day: not Captain Jack Sparrow
An ersatz Captain Jack Sparrow poses for photos with tourists in Covent Garden.
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Three Musketeers (review)
It is leaden where it should be light. It is graceless and charmless. It reels from the painful banter. It is the epitome of empty soulless corporate filmmaking.
question of the day: How much is too much to spend on producing a movie?
Disney shuts down production on The Lone Ranger over budget concerns even though it seems like a sure thing. Have we finally hit a ceiling on production costs?
Maria Shriver leaked Arnie’s shame; Alan Rickman’s awesome open letter to J.K. Rowling; Disney abandons ‘Seal Team 6’ trademark; more: leftover links
Plus: Pirates of the Caribbean for Dummies; The Hangover and the rise of the jokeless comedy; HuffPo employees fleeing…
blame Twitter for Wil Wheaton’s nonblogging; ‘Shit My Dad Says’ shitcanned; Catherine Tate may take over ‘The Office’; more: leftover links
Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…
Friday night fortune cookie: Captain Jack Sparrow says…
“The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.”
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (review)
I’ve listened to my fellow critics snarking on the film’s many many faults and I’ve laughed, but only at myself, because they’re not wrong and yet still it doesn’t change the fact that I really had a lot of fun with this movie.
Facebook smears Google; Disney trademarks “Seal Team 6”; men made ‘Bridesmaids’ suck; more: leftover links
Plus: Johnny Depp can’t see his own 3D POTC movie; Woody Allen sorta down on his own movies; why did Mel Gibson’s The Beaver flop?
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Curse of the Black Spot”
Someone’s been watching Pirates of the Caribbean… No, wait, someone’s been watching The Abyss…
Saturday cute: Jack Sparrow playing Magic the Gathering with Greedo
Gotta respect a fan artist who can so blithely combine three geek favorites in one image.
