May 2011 Archives

Embarking on a journey to find the fabled fountain of youth, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) - along with old rival Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), infamous pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and his daughter Angelica (Penelope Cruz) - happens upon something unexpected: a good old-fashioned, franchise-reviving pirate movie. Though it's difficult to imagine the magic and charm of 'The Curse of the Black Pearl' ever being recaptured, Rob Marshall, taking directing reigns from Gore Verbinski on the fourth picture in the series, makes a good go of it.

16 year-old Hanna Heller (Saoirse Ronan) spends her days with her father, Erik (Eric Bana), eking out an existence in an unknown frozen tundra. It's here where Erik has kept Hanna all her life, teaching her how to hunt and training her how to fight in daily, rigorous regimes. When Hanna decides that that isolated life isn't enough anymore, she allows herself to be captured by the CIA operative (Cate Blanchett) her father has warned her of her entire life. Escaping captivity and breaking free into the big wide world, Hanna must travel a great distance in order to rejoin her father while evading the tireless gallery of thugs following her trail.