In a change of pace, I have already seen one of the week's upcoming movies ahead of time: "Ninja Assassin." As per my expectations, the film places a lesser emphasis on plot and a higher one on intense action sequences.

British actress Naomie Harris has leaped to the defense of her fellow slender stars such as Keira Knightley, insisting their naturally skinny frames are to blame for bogus eating disorder reports.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pirate films are almost as old as movies themselves. There was Douglas Fairbanks as ''The Black Pirate'' in 1926. Errol Flynn was ''Captain Blood'' in 1935. In 1952, Burt Lancaster became ''The Crimson Pirate.'' Thirty years later, Kevin Kline was the Pirate King in 1983's ''Pirates of Penzance.''

It's way too long and massively convoluted and ultimately just plain silly. But still, ''Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' is a lot of fun a lot of the time.

British actress Naomie Harris impressed movie bosses at her audition for Pirates Of The Caribbean so much, they offered her a role on the spot. The star, who plays Jamaican voodoo princess Tia Dalma in the second and third installments of the swashbuckling series, was an outsider for the part until she met film bosses.

Pirates Of The Caribbean actress Naomie Harris has lavished praise on her hunky co-star Orlando Bloom for taking time out of filming to nurse her through a cold. Harris, who has a supporting role in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, admits she was star struck on her first day on set, and her dry throat was exacerbated by a bad cold too.

Summary: Writer and director Michael Mann updates the groundbreaking television crime series he created in the 1980s with this stylish thriller.

Naomie Harris turned down the chance to get naked for a shower scene with Jamie Foxx in Miami Vice because she didn't feel it required her to strip. Instead the actress insisted director Michael Mann hired a body double to shoot the steamy shower scene with Oscar-winner Foxx, who didn't have the same nudity concerns.