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Pirates of The Caribbean 3 may lack the freshness of its first predecessors but Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End still has plenty of wind in its sails, thanks to another winning performance from Johny Depp and the return of Geoffrey Rush. This is the third installment of the amazing tale of Pirates. The film picks up after the events of Dead Man’s Chest (Pirates of The Carribean 2) as Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) find themselves allied with the resurrected Captain Barbossa (Rush) in their quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his mind-bending fate in Davy Jone’s locker.

But while darker and more self-important there’s still plenty in its locker to keep audiences entertained in spite of a running time that approaches three hours. Once freed, the pirates mist unite against the might of Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) and The Flying Dutchman now allied to the East India Trading Company and its treacherous leader Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) in a bid to protect their freedom loving Pirate way. But there are some shortcomings such as the relationship of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are particularly exposed as they lack the charisma needed to keep their on/off relationship interesting. While new characters such as Chow Yun-Fat’s Chinese pirates Sao Fen don’t really add anything to proceedings and just to add to there forever going story.
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Fifty years into future, our sun has starting to die, but there is hope, a small team is sent to the sun to re-ignite the star by detonating a massive stellar bomb at its center. After the failure of a previous mission, the crew of the “Icarus II” are the last and only hope to save humanity.

While it may sound like it, this is no Armageddon. Sunshine has a lot more in common with such intelligent sci-fi as 2001:A Space Odyssey or Solaris, but with the added tension and claustrophobia of Alien. We are as trapped in this small, confine spacecraft as the eight astronauts are, hurtling towards the sun, their only protection a massive heat shield that deflects away the sun’s rays whilst enveloping the ship itself in near darkness. Sixteen months into the mission, everything has so fat gone to plan, but while passing Mercury the crew pick up a distress beacon. Could the signal be from the missing “Icarus I”, which disappeared seven years earlier whilst attempting to complete the same mission?
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Well its been a few years since the first Bean Movie was released, Bean released in 1987 starring Rowan Atkinson and Peter MacNicol was a big hit with all ages, but enough of that let’s move onto Rowan Atkinson’s new comedy: Mr. Bean The Holiday

This new addition to Rowan Atkinson’s movie career is one that will not impress movie comedy lovers. With its short running time and all too often the humour relies on jokes that lack the sophistication of the film’s very best moments and which contributes to an uneven balance.

The story picks up as Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) wins the top prize at a church raffle competition a holiday to the south of France. But as soon as his journey down south begins, many unwitting mishaps happen. From missing his train to being mistaken for a kidnapper. Continue Reading »

Hollywood loves the end of the world. The basic idea of a disease of one sort or another wiping out the human race has been done and re-done so many times it’s almost impossible to keep track of the original use of the concept.

Although if I were asked where this particular concept originated, my money would be on the 1964 Vincent Price film, The Last Man on Earth, based on Richard Matheson’s novella “I am Legend”.

“Legend” was remade in 1971, with sci-fi overtones, as the Charlton Heston vehicle, “The Omega Man”. Now the world finds itself with yet another version, finally titled, “I Am Legend”. This edition features Will Smith as scientist Robert Neville, battling a vampiric plague caused by a cancer cure gone horribly wrong.
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Treasure hunter Benjamin Gates (Nicholas Cage) is back again in the Jerry Bruckheimer directed film National Treasure: Book of Secrets, sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure. This time Gates, his father Patrick, mother Emily, girlfriend Abigail, and friend Riley set off to find the lost City of gold in order to clear Ben’s great-grandfather’s name as a con-conspirator in the murder of President Abraham Lincoln. The film follows the group as they find clues in places such as London, Paris, and Washington D.C.

As the first installment, Book of Secrets is packed with action and laughs. While there are some unrealistic scenes, the movie in a whole delivers what it was designed to do; provide something the whole family can enjoy. Even though rated PG, the film will give viewers of all ages with an enjoyable cinema experience and leave with a bit of history as well.

This is by no means Nicholas Cage’s best acting, but supporting cast helps make the film what it is. The relationships between Ben’s father (Jon Voight) and mother (Helen Mirren) as well as between Ben and Abigail (Diane Driger) add side-stories to the film and funny guy riley )Justin Botha) provides comedic relief.
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