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A preview of movies opening this week:"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (opening tomorrow) >> Originally inspired by the beloved Disneyland theme-park ride, action producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Pearl Harbor") and director Gore Verbinski ("The Ring") have made a $125 million supernatural swashbuckler about a gang of bloodthirsty pirates (led by Geoffrey Rush) trying to undo a spell that turns them into the walking dead. The roguish Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) teams up with a blacksmith (Orlando Bloom, the archer-elf of "The Lord of the Rings") to rescue a comely lass (Keira Knightley of "Bend It Like Beckham") who unknowingly holds the secret to breaking the hex. (PG-13)
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (opening Friday) >> The latest in a line of comic book adaptations, this time from a series from Alan Moore's superb America's Best Comics imprint from DC Comics. A collection of fictional characters culled from 19th-century literature -- the Invisible Man, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll and Mina Murray -- band together in a secret crime-fighting society to battle a nefarious genius bent on nothing less than world domination. Sean Connery plays the group's leader, the adventurer Allan Quatermain. The movie is loosely based on the comic book series, adding American characters Tom Sawyer (now a grown-up Secret Service agent) and Dorian Gray. (PG-13)
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Titas unite tonight!
Hybolics presents "Tita Out," featuring the work of MANE, Elena Cabatu and Eve Brown, who "Da Pidgin Guerilla" Lee Tonouchi describes as "chree of Hawaii's brightest young, up-and-coming Tita performers."The three will give a free presentation of poetry, drama and storytelling at 7:30 p.m. today in the University of Hawaii Art Auditorium.
MANE is a filmmaker and actress. Hilo girl Cabatu attended Georgetown University and is credited for bringing pidgin to Washington, D.C., where she currently resides. Meanwhile, Brown is the leading transves-tita on the local slam poetry circuit.
For more information, call 366-1272.
HEARTS
Hawaii Education of the ARTS students brings Peanuts characters to life in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."
'Peanuts' on stage
Students from the Hawaii Education of the ARTS (HEARTS) summer musical theater program will light up the stage at Windward Community College's Paliku Theatre today and tomorrow with the presentation of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown."The cast of 28 children, ages 5 to 14, will bring the Peanuts gang -- including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Woodstock and crabby Lucy -- to life at 7 p.m. both days.
Tickets are $5. For more information, call 741-ARTS (2787).
New film fest deadline
The deadline for submitting entries to the Cinema Paradise Film Festival has been extended to July 15.The festival is accepting entries from local filmmakers with projects eligible for the $5,000 Hawaii Filmmaker Award presented by the Movie Museum. Any film or video project completed in Hawaii after January 2001 is eligible. Fiction or documentary, short or feature-length, animation or live-action, there are no limitations. Entries may even be works in progress.
The festival will take place Sept. 19 to 25 at the Art House at Restaurant Row and other venues.
For more information, visit the festival's Web site at cinemaparadise.org, or contact info@cinemaparadise.org or sergio@cinemaparadise.org.
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