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Review: `Pirate Radio' rolls when it should rock
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The opening credit sequence of Pirate Radio fooled me momentarily into thinking I was being shown a trailer for the movie rather than the movie itself.
Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast-members. He's a British Judd Apatow - indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.
It's a few weeks before Christmas, and love is in the air in England for the ensemble cast that includes Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Laura Linney, and Kiera Knightley.
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In the 1960s, while the BBC limited itself to two hours of rock 'n' roll a week, pirate radio stations sated Britain's hunger for guitar-driven music.
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PIRATE RADIO Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh Rock and roll will live forever - but can it float? Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis , spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose "pirate radio" captivated and ...
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Pirate Radio In theaters: November 13, 2009 Rock and roll will live forever - but can it float? Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis , spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose "pirate radio" captivated and inspired 1960s Britain.
What would Love, Actually have looked like without the London setting and wry acting ensemble? If instead of Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Bill Nighy, it had starred Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts and Jessica Biel? And if it was -- instead of from the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral -- "from the director of Pretty Woman"? Yes, it would ...
Who would have envisioned that theatre-trained, award-winning, revered British thespian Bill Nighy would wind up starring in a 3D animated kids' movie about guinea pigs moonlighting as secret agents? Sipping cappuccino in his New York hotel room, 59-year-old Nighy says, simply, "If Jerry Bruckheimer calls, you don't really need to hear anything ...
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