A seemingly never-ending line of dirt-encrusted men, women and at least one child prepare to be hanged in the gallows, all to appease Lord Beckett (Tom Hollander) and his war on the pirates. As they march endlessly towards their doom, a cryer announces that item after item is suspended. No longer can people gather, demonstrate or even have lawyers. Instead, they can just die.
Then, a young lad, clutching a piece of eight, begins to softly sing. The song is gradually picked up by each of the others in line behind him, until it seems that everyone is singing the haunting song. This seems to do nothing more than infuriate Beckett.
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Drama on November 19th, 2006 by Chad Everett
When a renegade Russian submarine captain (Sean Connery) disappears into the North Atlantic with Russia’s latest technical marvel, it is at first assumed that he intends to start a war. That is, after all, what the Red Octoberwas designed to do. But at least one person, Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), believes differently.
He has studied Marko Ramius, and he has even met him once before, and he doesn’t think that he would do something like that. In fact, Jack thinks that he’s trying to defect. There are just two problems with that. First, anyone with a multi-billion dollar war machine may do just about anything that they want. And second, this machine just happens to have a super-secret caterpillar drive that means they can’t be tracked in any traditional way, so finding him is another thing entirely.
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Horror on September 21st, 2006 by Chad Everett
Years before The Exorcist takes place, Father Merrin (played here by Stellan Skarsgård travels to East Africa in search of an idol, rumored to be in a church.
The really interesting thing is that the church isn’t supposed to exist. We find out later that the church was built and then excised from the official Vatican records because of the atrocities that happened there, and that’s pretty much everything exciting that happens.
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Adventure on July 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett
The second installment of the Pirates franchise clocks in just a few minutes longer than the first movie, but in some ways it seems quite a bit longer. Perhaps we’ve become used to Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, in the role he was born to play), or perhaps it just went on too long. One thing is sure, and that’s that the visuals are superb.
From the opening sounds of the lonely pirate singing, you are whisked off to a world of adventure with Captain Jack. Unfortunately it gets a bit bogged down after that. There’s an adventure on an island which, while fun, could probably be dropped in its entirety without affecting the rest of the movie one bit. The movie then drags for a while before another fun bit that goes on and on and on. And then it goes on some more.
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