


Unforunately, starting last year, viruses got smarter. Once upon a time, this must have sounded like a good idea: automatic virus blocking software, after intercepting and deleting an infected e-mail, sends a helpful note back to the source warning of an infection. The most irritating clutter results from all the "return mail" messages informing me that I have sent someone an infected e-mail. (If you sent an e-mail to me earlier than February 6 and I haven't responded by now, it probably means that it was inadvertantly dumped as part of one of my semi-daily virus purges.) Strangely enough, however, infected e-mails aren't the biggest problem I'm currently facing (besides, my anti-virus software takes care of them anyway). This will be a great relief to my e-mail "in" box, which has been overflowing for the better part of two weeks. Speaking as someone who watches this film semi-regularly, the effects on the film have aged well and this is a classic in its own right.Based on reports that I have heard, today is the day when the latest computer virus will expire (or maybe not). The first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise stars Johnny Depp ( Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), Geoffrey Rush ( The King’s Speech, Quills, The Book Thief), Orlando Bloom ( The Lord of the Rings film series, Kingdom of Heaven, “ Carnival Row“), Keira Knightley ( Pride & Prejudice, Silent Night, Colette), Jonathan Pryce (“Game of Thrones”, The Two Popes, Age of Innocence), Jack Davenport ( Kingsman: The Secret Service, “The Morning Show”), and Zoe Saldaña ( Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar).

What Will doesn’t know is that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his crew to live forever as the undead! In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth’s childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) joins forces with Jack. The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow’s (Johnny Depp) idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor’s beautiful daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley). Disney’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL arrives on 4K Ultra HD Disc for the first time on January 2, 2022, in spectacular HDR picture quality and Dolby Atmos audio.
