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Review: Pirate Radio
6 hours ago | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Just a few days back Robert Carlyle used the Scottish BAFTAs as a platform to voice his displeasure of the British film industry. There have been no decent films produced here, he said, since Trainspotting.
Studying Carlyle’s words, he has a point; the cinematic output of Great Britain primarily regurtiates the same type of film over and over. Chief amongst them are the kitchen sink tragedy and the costume drama. However, there is a third type of high profile movie produced on these shores which generally lead to much commercial success. This genre can be, for all intents and purposes, attributed to one man. This, the third entry into the British cinema canon, is the “Richard Curtis movie”.
Since graduating from television writing, Curtis has pioneered an individualistic approach to the world of cinema relying heavily on picture postcard locations in Southern England, syrupy sentiment, “comedy” swearing and middle-class males indulging in linguistic mishaps. »
- Kieron
Five Radio Flicks That Rocked the Big Screen
8 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I've always been drawn to radio on the big screen. It seems antithetical -- a sound format being so perfect for a medium full of sound and imagery. Video killed the radio star ... right? Nevertheless, radio leads to wonderfully aural expression that gives film that extra little something, whether that be the perfectly pitched voice of a radio DJ delighting in word play or the perfectly placed song that evokes any number of emotions. Word play and great music -- they've always been my weakness.
Therefore, naturally, I'm all sorts of excited for this week's cinematic slate, which not only includes disasters, tough women, and fantastic foxes, but also a little flick called Pirate Radio. This ensemble comedy has been a long time coming. In fact, it's been almost a year since we first got to see a trailer for the film that not only features a cast including Nick Frost and Bill Nighy, »
- Monika Bartyzel
Interview: Richard Curtis on Rock, Politics, Sex, and ‘Pirate Radio’
8 hours ago | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The legendary Richard Curtis returns this week with “Pirate Radio,” the story of Radio Rock and the first disc jockeys to ever play rock and roll in the United Kingdom. Co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, and many more, “Pirate Radio” is another ensemble comedy from the man who made the beloved “Love Actually” and wrote “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill,” and created “Black Adder”. Curtis recently sat down with HollywoodChicago.com (and Matt Fagerholm of Film Monthly and Locke Peterseim of RedBlog) to discuss his new film and its inspirations.
Naturally, if a writer is going to make a film about the power of rock music, he probably has a pretty close kinship to the tunes of the era himself. Curtis vividly remembers tuning into Radio Rock on his transistor, a moment copied for the very first shot of “Pirate Radio »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Sailing Out Across the Radio Waves - Ray’s Pirate Radio Review and More
8 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It was an unusually warm day in November when I got word that there would be an advanced screening of Focus Features’ newest picture, Pirate Radio. In addition to the screening, I would get the chance to talk with Tom Sturridge, a bit of an acting newcomer who would serve as the film’s lynchpin, and the writer/director of the film, Richard Curtis. Well, I grabbed The Who’s Greatest Hits album, aptly titled after one of their greatest singles, My Generation, jumped in my Chevy and sped away towards midtown Manhattan.
Being a bit of a Richard Curtis fan for his work as a writer on one of Britain’s most celebrated sitcoms ever, Black Adder, and for his directorial debut with Love, Actually, to say I was amped up would probably be an understatement. I had also wanted to desperately see this movie since I had heard »
- Ray Carsillo
Phillip Seymour Hoffman rocks the boat on 'Pirate Radio' (IrishCentral)
12 hours ago | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
Video / Watch the 'Pirate Radio' trailer / Click here 'Pirate Radio,' the immensely likeable new comedy by 'Four Weddings and A Funeral' and 'Notting Hill' writer and director Richard Curtis, features Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in a role that’s a welcome departure from the much heavier dramas he excels at. In the new comedy flick, which opens Friday, Seymour Hoffman plays The Count, a quicksilver American D.J. who helps brings rock and roll to the masses aided by his eccentric British D.J. pals on board a pirate radio ship anchored far out in the North Sea in the 1960’s. When young Carl (played by up and coming British star Tom Sturridge) comes aboard the old tanker, he discovers a freewheeling world of hippies, artists and freethinkers that transform his life in a heartbeat. As the fast talking, quick thinking Count, we see »
The Week in Film: Oscar Bait
13 hours ago | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Why, hello, folks! Another week means another week closer to December, which means it’s another week closer to Oscar bait movies. Aren’t you curious? I know you are, so let’s begin!
First up, we have 2012. It’s one of those natural disaster movies, but this time, on a global scale. The whole thing is based on the end of the world that in turn is based on the Mayan calendar. Expect super visual effects in the likes of things blowing up, giant tsunamis, raining meteors, skyscrapers collapsing, and Godzilla. Oh wait, scratch that last one.
Okay, sure this isn’t Oscar bait. But still, if you’re feeling like July in November, go for it! Oh, yeah, 2012 stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, and Amanda Peet.
The second of the two wide releases this week is Pirate Radio. In the 1960s, a bunch of DJs went on a boat, »
- Raiden251
Critics Consensus: 2012 Isn't Quite Earth-Shaking
14 hours ago | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »
This week at the movies, we've got a global catastrophe (2012, starring John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor) and some rock 'n' roll rebellion (Pirate Radio, starring Philip S. Hoffman and Bill Nighy). What do the critics have to say? Nobody goes to a Roland Emmerich picture expecting art or realism; they go for sheer spectacle. On that level, critics say, 2012 largely delivers. However, they also note that if you enjoy character development, witty dialogue, remotely plausible science, and brevity, you're out of luck. It's an understatement to say that the mid-to-late-1960s was a revolutionary period for British rock music,... »
Pirate Radio Reviews
14 hours ago | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Pirate Radio was released in the UK seven months ago to so-so reviews. Then they took out all the good parts and sent it over here. Reviews suggest you should wait to see the movie on DVD, but pick up the soundtrack now.
"...the wall-to-wall '60s rock keeps things bright."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Pirate Radio is a film that is defined fully by the word 'cute,' mostly entertaining and inoffensive and often quite funny, though over-long by at least half an hour."
— Christopher Null, Entertainment Weekly
"Writer-director Richard Curtis is about as rock n' roll as the average great-grandmother, so it's no surprise that Pirate Radio, his ode to the irrepressible spirit of '60s classic rock, has all the electricity of a knitted sweater."
— Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
"Seven months after its theatrical release in the U.K., and two months after its DVD debut there, »
- reelz reelz
Listen, Don't Watch: 10 Soundtracks Better Than Their Movies
17 hours ago | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Seven months ago, the movie formerly known as The Boat That Rocked had its UK theatrical release, followed up two months later with the DVD. Reviews at the time were so-so. Now the pic gets shipped state-side, renamed Pirate Radio and apparently with all the good parts taken out.
That said, the soundtrack contains 32 '60s classics from The Kinks to The Who to David Bowie — sending it straight to the "Listen, Don't Watch" category, and leaving us wondering if it belongs on our list of 10 Soundtracks Better Than Their Movies.
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Pirate Radio - Trailer
Philip Hoffman and Bill Nighy star - in theaters Friday
Link | Posted 11/12/2009 by reelz
Movies and Music | Pirate Radio | Purple Rain | Twilight | Marie Antoinette | Lost Highway | Garden State | Pretty in Pink | The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Staying Alive | Xanadu »
- reelz reelz
Box Office: 2012 Pirates on a Dead Man's Chest
11 November 2009 5:15 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Christmas came a little early allowing the animated 3D film A Christmas Carol to lead the box office, but not by as large a margin as many had expected. The Box was the only one of last week's wide releases to miss the top five, landing in sixth place. Here's the top five:
1. A Christmas Carol: $30 million
2. Michael Jackson's This Is It: $13 million
3. The Men Who Stare at Goats: $12.67 million
4. The Fourth Kind: $12.2 million
5. Paranormal Activity: $8.2 million
We've got two new flicks fighting for your dollars this week:
2012
What's It All About: They say the world will end with not a bang but a whimper, but director Roland Emmerich seems pretty sure it will happen with several kabooms and a motherload of digital effects. John Cusack stars as a man determined to keep his family alive during a global cataclysm predicted by the Mayan calendar. »
- Matt Bradshaw
Interview: Pirate Radio's Philip Seymour Hoffman
11 November 2009 3:33 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
According to Pirate Radio.s trailer, rock and roll played loudly throughout Britain until the government said no more. Okay, that sounds about right. The whole .until one American DJ and a band of renegades launched a radio station on the high seas. thing? Well, not entirely. Philip Seymour Hoffman may be the most well known actor in Pirate Radio, particularly in the Us, but he.s certainly not the star of this film and is eager to set the promotional material straight. His character, The Count, is the sole American DJ aboard Radio Rock, a boat floating in the North Sea just outside the British government.s authority. It provides 24 hours of pop and rock a day until the government decides it.s time to sink their ship and outlaw them completely. The Count was just one of eight DJs determined to, in The Count.s words, .broadcast from »
Exclusive Video: Pirate Radio Cast Interview Featurette
11 November 2009 11:11 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
In 1966, arguably British pop music's finest era, the BBC played only two hours of rock n' roll every week but pirate radio blasted rock and pop from the high seas twenty-four hours a day and twenty-five million people, more than half the population of Britain, listened to these broadcasts every single day. Pirate Radio, opening in theaters everywhere on November 13th, is the latest film from Richard Curtis, the acclaimed director of Notting Hill and Love Actually, and chronicles these pioneers and the music that inspired a generation. The film stars Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman and an all-star cast of British actors that includes Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Rhys Darby, Nick Frost, Jack Davenport and Kenneth Branagh. We had an opportunity to travel to London a few weeks ago and speak with Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and the films young stars Tom Sturridge and Talulah Riley about the new »
"The Boat That Rocked" gets a new name but keeps its lesbian character
11 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Last spring, we told you Katherine Parkinson would be playing a lesbian cook in the film The Boat That Rocked. The movie was put through the ringer, and is finally in American theaters under the name Pirate Radio.
Reviews indicate that Katherine's character Felicity is a relatively small part, besides being the only woman working on board the boat, which is home to a rogue rock 'n' roll radio station in the 1960s. Cinemablend.com says Felicity is "exempt from the ship's no lady policy because she's a lesbian."
Since she's such a small part in a cast of many, many men, there is another reason to see the film: January Jones. She plays Elenore, who is married to one of the main DJs, Simon (Chris O'Dowd), but is really in love with the star disc jockey, Gavin (Rhys Ifans).
Also in the film is Emma Thompson, playing mother to »
- Trish Bendix
Hitting Theaters This Week
11 November 2009 9:42 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Are you looking for a lot of action within a film you won't have to use your brain to enjoy? Or, are you ready to rock out to some of the best tunes from the '60s? If your answer is yes to either question, then there's something just for you hitting theaters in wide release this weekend:
2012 starring John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Fantastic Mr Fox (in La/NY) featuring the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep
The Messenger (limited release) starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson
Pirate Radio with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy New and Expanded Photo Galleries
Beastly Photos - Alex Pettyfer/Vanessa Hudgens
Brothers Photos - Jake Gyllenhaal/Tobey Maguire
Despicable Me Photos
How to Train Your Dragon Photos A Couple of New Posters
Alice in Wonderland Posters
How to Train Your Dragon Poster
It's Complicated Poster New Videos
The Blind Side Video »
This week's new movie releases - Nov. 13, 2009
10 November 2009 11:14 PM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Opening this week are Roland Emmerich's new apocalyptic action flick "2012" with John Cusack; and Richard Curtis' comedy "Pirate Radio" with Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
2012 (with John Cusack, by Roland Emmerich)
Synopsis: The film focuses on a little group of people struggling with the large-scale cataclysm ensuing from the end of the world in 2012. As usual, Emmerich blows up the entire planet. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Amanda Peet co-star. »
- Franck Tabouring
Priate Radio - New exclusive clip from the Focus Features comedy.
9 November 2009 10:06 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Check out a new exclusive clip courtesy of Yahoo Movies from Focus Features' "Pirate Radio," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, Gemma Arterton, Nick Frost, January Jones, Jack Davenport, Tom Wisdom, Rhys Darby and Tom Sturridge. Richard Curtis directs and writes the film produced by Hilary Bevan Jones, Richard Curtis, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Catch it in theatres on November 13th. "Pirate Radio" is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing Rock n Roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in »
'2012' Forecasts The World's End In This Week's Box Office Poll
9 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Before we delve into this week's releases, I want to take a second to give "Precious" a shout. Opening on just 18 screens, the Sundance favorite and Oscar buzzer still managed to take in just shy of $2 million. It's not a movie I intend to see again anytime soon, but it's a compelling work of fiction. And even if it wasn't, I'm a person who is impressed by cold, hard facts. And the big fact here is that "Precious" enjoyed a monster opening weekend as a limited release.
Moving on, this week's star is director Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic disaster flick, "2012." John Cusack and his pals fly around the world, bearing witness to scenes of mass destruction as humanity crumbles all around. Sounds super-uplifting, doesn't it? I'm guessing that this will be the big weekend winner; it's definitely on my "must see" list.
Opening alongside "2012," though in a not-quite-as-wide release, is "Pirate Radio, »
- Adam Rosenberg
'A Christmas Carol' Defeats 'This Is It' At Box Office
9 November 2009 7:01 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Michael Jackson documentary moonwalks into second place behind big-budget retelling of classic Christmas story.
By Josh Wigler
Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey) in "A Christmas Carol"
Photo: Disney
Box-Office Top Five
#1 "A Christmas Carol" ($31 million)
#2 "Michael Jackson's This Is It" ($14 million)
#3 "The Men Who Stare at Goats" ($13.3 million)
#4 "The Fourth Kind" ($12.5 million)
#5 "Paranormal Activity" ($8.6 million)
Despite the first-place finish of Robert Zemeckis's 3-D representation of "A Christmas Carol," yuletide cheer seemed halfhearted at the weekend box office. Given Jim Carrey's star power, the movie's $200 million budget and the potential family-crowd draw, the $31 million debut from "A Christmas Carol" is a disappointing result for the Disney version of the Charles Dickens classic.
Second place went to "Michael Jackson's This Is It," which earned less than half as much as the first-place finisher. Winding down Friday evening in fourth place, "This Is It" wound up in the #2 slot thanks »
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 ‘Pirate Radio’ Chicago Screening Passes With Philip Seymour Hoffman
8 November 2009 5:23 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – In our latest comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Pirate Radio”! The film was formerly titled “The Boat That Rocked”.
“Pirate Radio” from writer and director Richard Curtis (“Love Actually,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill”) stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Rhys Darby, Talulah Riley and January Jones. The film opens everywhere on Nov. 13, 2009.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Pirate Radio” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question below. That’s it! This screening will be held on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
“Pirate Radio” stars Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Image credit: Universal Pictures
Here »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Box Office Beat Down: Disney's a Christmas Carol Celebrates the Holidays Early with $31 Million
8 November 2009 1:55 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Weekend Box Office
1) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $31 million
2) Michael Jackson's This Is It - $14 million
3) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $13.3 million
4) The Fourth Kind - $12.5 million
5) Paranormal Activity - $8.6 million
6) The Box - $7.8 million
7) Couples Retreat - $6.4 million
8) Law Abiding Citizen - $6.1 million
9) Where the Wild Things Are - $4.2 million
10) Astro Boy - $2.5 million
Robert Zemekis' 3D performance capture retelling of the classic Charles Dickens' story, Disney's a Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carey as the immortal villain Scrooge took the top spot this weekend in it's first week of release grossing an estimated $31 million at the box office. The film, which cost an estimated $200 million to make, was released on 3,683 screens for an average of $8,417 per screen. While last weeks number one film, Michael Jackson's This Is It, fell nearly 40% earning an additional $14 million this week in the box office. Playing on an estimated 3,481 screens, the »
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