Just a normal day in the land down under - The post-Lord of the Rings career of Peter Jackson serves as a fascinating study in creative inflation, where the absolute freedom gained from cementing his place in cinematic history unexpectedly yielded a prolonged era of narrative indulgence and stylistic exhaustion. While his sweeping adaptation of Middle-earth in the early 2000s achieved a flawless equilibrium of heart and scale, his subsequent individual ventures, including the bloated spectacle o

🏴‍☠️ Why does Disneyland’s new pirate animatronic look so cartoony? A new portrait Disney also added to Pirates of the Caribbean explains it, pointing to the origins of the ride itself. Critics are arguing that the new Pirates of the Caribbean animatronic, with its CG-animated face, doesn't fit the aesthetic of the ride. Does something this exaggerated and cartoony belong in a ride as dark as Pirates? Well, in the 1960s, similar tensions over style and tone were part of what shaped Pirates in t