Old Train

While we may be a couple years off from another Jack Sparrow adventure, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and star Johnny Depp (as well as original "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski) have reteamed to take on a similarly iconic property (in similarly bombastic summer movie form) – "The Lone Ranger." While the previous trailers for the film (and an extended 20-minute preview) had us pretty excited for the movie, a new trailer emphasizing the film's action set pieces, is leaving us positively jazzed. While a big Hollywood western is anything but a sure thing, "The Lone Ranger" looks like it's got the goods. While Disney is taking great pains to draw the comparison between "The Lone Ranger" and "Pirates of the Caribbean," this footage reinforces that it's another Verbinski/Depp vehicle that makes for a more easy comparison – Verbinski's Oscar-winning animated feature "Rango." Things like the Lone Ranger's white horse in the reflection of the train's windows and a band of...

The Internal Revenue Service’s slow-motion train wreck of a scandal just got a bit worse. That’s according to a new poll that offers fresh insight into how Americans perceive the IRS targeting scandal – and points to badly bungled damage control on the part of the agency and the administration.