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No movie can be all bad when juiced up with a soundtrack of more than 50 classic rock tunes.

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.

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.

TV and theater actor when his flamboyantly entertaining performance as an aging rock star in the 2003 film "Love Actually" kicked his career to a new level.

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 ...

Tenma cannot accept the loss of his ultra-intelligent son, Tobey . Tenma creates an android in the very image of his son, downloading his son's memories into the machine.

Genre: Animated Sci-Fi/Adventure Directed by: David Bowers Starring: Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Bell Sometimes, after weeks upon weeks of just watching the worst movies imaginable - the stupid, the puerile, the just plain awful - the simple act of watching a film that at least attempts to say something is ...

Ita s been 57 years since Astro Boy first took flight in Japan, but today the rocket-powered robot boy attempts flying to new heights with a feature film that may surprise even loyal fans with its bittersweet tale.

Genre: Animation, Children's, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Drama Cast: Voices of Freddie Highmore as Astro Boy; Kristen Bell as Cora; Nicolas Cage as Dr.

Featuring the voices of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Bill Nighy and Donald Sutherland.

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Amelia Earhart ! No, it's the strange, somewhat surreal Astro Boy! Faster than a speeding bullet train, more powerful than an adolescent girl or any other gaga creature that comes at him, the Japanese cartoon robot has made the leap to the big American screen, complete with a golly-gee voice , a ...

Background detail gets proper attention in Astro Boy. ASTRO BOY directed by David Bowers, written by Bowers and Timothy Harris based on Osamu Tezuka's manga, with the voices of Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage, Freddie Highmore, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland and Charlize Theron.

Cast: Freddie Highmore as Astro Boy Kristen Bell as the voice of Cora Donald Sutherland as General Stone Nicolas Cage as the voice of Dr.

The animated "Astro Boy" is a shiny hodgepodge of "Pinocchio," "WALL-E," "Oliver Twist," "Gladiator" and "Superman," with some obvious visual touches taken from "The Iron Giant." As its own entity, though, it's pretty forgettable.

On the big screen at least the Second World War is Britain's finest hour: the moment when an entire nation rose up to oppose the tyranny of Hitler and was not found wanting.

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 ...