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Movie Review: “Pirate Radio”
19 hours ago | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: November 5, 2009
The players: Director: Richard Curtis, Writer: Richard Curtis, Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh
Facts of interest: Richard Curtis also directed "Love, Actually."
The plot: A group of radio pirates broadcast rock 'n' roll from a boat in the North Atlantic while the British government tries to shut them down.
Our thoughts: Board Richard Curtis’ new comedy “Pirate Radio” (formerly “The Boat That Rocked”), and you’re in for more than two hours of great rock ‘n’ roll and fabulous acting performances. The film is by no means perfect, but I admit it’s definitely not as terrible as some critics out there made it out to be. »
- Franck Tabouring
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
20 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
By
Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
'2012' destroys the competition at Friday's box office
23 hours ago | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
Roland Emmerich has once again proved his mastery over the art of destruction with his latest film 2012: Moviegoers shelled out an estimated $23.7 million for the flick's opening day. If the number holds, the Friday figure will mark a personal best for the German director, beating 2004's disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. Second place went to Disney's A Christmas Carol, which grossed $5.6 million on its second Friday in theaters. The third slot belonged to the George Clooney-starrer The Men Who Stare at Goats which earned an additional $1.95 million to put its 8-day cumulative at $19.2 million. Lionsgate's Sundance acquisition Precious continues to exceed expectations, »
- Nicole Sperling
"Pirate Radio" a.k.a. "The Boat That Rocked" Movie Review
13 November 2009 6:51 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Here's my review of the new film from Focus Features, "Pirate Radio," otherwise known as "The Boat That Rocked" starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh.
Is the film worth your time and money? Find out:
Here's more info about the film from Yahoo:
Cast and Credits
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Produced by: Richard Curtis, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin
In the 1960s a group of 8 rogue 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 their power to shut them down.
Genres: Art/Foreign and Comedy
Running Time: 2 hrs. »
- Manny
Nick Frost on Spielberg, Paul, and Richard Curtis's Pirate Radio
13 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
For someone who never quite intended to become an actor, Nick Frost sure is having a good go at it. The British comedian rose to fame on his collaborations with Simon Pegg, including Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and they have more in store (including the alien comedy Paul and a tandem role in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn) but in the meantime, Frost can be seen as part of the sterling ensemble in Pirate Radio, directed by Richard Curtis (Love Actually).
Movieline caught up with Frost to discuss the challenges of making the boat-set comedy, and Frost was happy to share some tidbits about his upcoming, fanboy-friendly slate at the same time. »
Movie Reviews: “Pirate Radio”
13 November 2009 11:56 AM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Like the little off-shore pirate radio stations playing rock 'n' roll that dared to compete against the massive radio domination of the staid BBC in the 1960s, Pirate Radio debuts against the incalculable might of the $260-million apocalyptic flick 2012 this week. The critics, for the most part, love it. "It skips by like a much-loved old LP," writes Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel. "The film makes for easy viewing and easier listening," says Manohla Dargis in the New York Times, one of several critics who praise the choice of '60s music featured in the movie (and Claudia Puig in USA Today recommends that audiences "stick around through the end credit sequence, which features an array of album covers.") Kyle Smith in the New York Post notes that writer/director Richard Curtis, who wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, "has dropped another bright joy-bomb that explodes in every direction with rock classics used in surprisingly direct and literal ways." On the other hand, Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer accuses Curtis of taking a potentially "great story" about the pirate stations and turning it "into an aggressively irritating floating frat-party romp." And Peter Howell concludes in the Toronto Star: "This film doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama. By the time it finally reaches its Titanic-style conclusion, you probably won't care." »
Review: Pirate Radio
13 November 2009 10:33 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Tethered to reality by only a slender thread, Pirate Radio quickly cuts loose and floats off into its own imaginary layer of the Earth's atmosphere, where only good-hearted, pleasant-thinking, die-hard romantics can survive. Welcome home, Richard Curtis, where have you been?
Writer/director Curtis rose to fame on the basis of his screenplay for Four Weddings and a Funeral, featuring an ensemble of quirky yet appealing men and women chasing love and happiness, followed, notably, by his script for Notting Hill, but he's been writing off-kilter comedy sketches and episodic television for many years. Pirate Radio proves that his gift for writing witty one-liners and creating funny situations remains intact. His skills as a film director and shaper of material are a little more fuzzy and undefined, however.
As with Love, Actually, his previous directorial effort, Pirate Radio (Aka The Boat That Rocked) is filled with episodes that feel randomly assembled, »
- Peter Martin
Pirate Radio Rocks on Good Tunes, Cast
13 November 2009 6:56 AM, PST | newser.com | See recent newser news »
Critics agree that the soundtrack of Pirate Radio can't be beat, and the top-notch cast is a joy. So when it comes to the shaky plot and pacing, some can turn a blind eye: "There’s no denying the comic energy of the cast," Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone . "Couple that with blasts of Brit rock from the Beatles and the Stones to Dusty Springfield and David Bowie, and the ship is unsinkable." Writer/director Richard Curtis introduces "characters and conflicts only to drop them," Stephanie Zacharek of Salon complains. But no matter: The best bits "take place in the movie's... »
Pirate Radio - Movie Review
13 November 2009 6:02 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Fun, fun, fun until the Prime Minister takes the T-Bird away Writer/director Richard Curtis may be best known for his writing associated with the .Blackadder Goes Forth. and .Mr. Bean. TV series but he has pulled a rabbit out of the hat with this swinging hit starring the .British Invasion. music that swept the world. The scene is the late 1960.s and the birth of underground radio. That is the radio that plays all those nasty songs that mention spending the night together and other such evil acts. It is also the radio that plays unplayable songs such as the long versions of the Cream songs and maybe even the much revered .Stairway to Heaven.. In any event they »
- Ron Wilkinson
'Pirate Radio': Adrift, By Kurt Loder
13 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Even Philip Seymour Hoffman can't quite float this boat.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nick Frost in "Pirate Radio"
Photo: Focus Features
Imagine you're a British teenager in the mid-1960s. The new breed of English rock is taking over the world. Across the pond in America, the Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Animals, Troggs and Yardbirds can all be heard around the clock on U.S. radio. Back at home, though, the government controls the airwaves, through the dowdy BBC, and the government has decided that no one needs to hear this unseemly music.
The new movie "Pirate Radio" trains a fond eye on the rebellion that this oppressive state of affairs spawned: an outbreak of rogue radio stations based on ships anchored just outside of British territorial waters. Radio Caroline was the first of these outfits to go on the air, in 1964, and it was soon joined by others -- »
Movie Review: Pirate Radio
13 November 2009 4:25 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
A mere 40 years ago rock and roll was all but banned on British airwaves. Other than a few hours a week on the BBC, the only way to hear tunes from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, and other trailblazing artists on the radio in the mid-'60s was to tune in to pirate radio. Bunked in a ship off the coast of England, a batch of rebel deejays served up rock and roll 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to listeners who would otherwise have had to go without.
Now writer/director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill) has taken that era of pirate radio and used it as fodder for a music-filled tale of sex, almost no drugs, and rock and roll in Pirate Radio (also known as The Boat That Rocked). Read On...
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Talulah Riley on '60s Music, ' »
Pirate Radio
13 November 2009 3:00 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: Nov. 13 Director/Writer: Richard Curtis Cinematographer: Danny Cohen Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Kenneth Branagh Studio/Run Time: Focus Features, 135 mins. Raucous ’60s retrospective adrift in simplistic plot Nobody can accuse Richard Curtis’ sophomore directorial effort of being less than a fun time. The writer/director of Love, Actually immerses his work in a sea of floral-lensed escapism, filled with lusty skirt-chasing and fraternal merry-making—and in Pirate Radio, a loose timepiece about a radio ship that broadcasts primitive rock ’n’ roll in international waters to avoid government regulation, the good vibes keep rolling. It’s worth seeing... »
This Weekend at the Movies: November 13, 2009
13 November 2009 2:32 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
These films are listed in order of popularity at the moment I generate the script and it is both encouraging and upsetting which film is at the top and which film is at the bottom. While I am excited to see the readership is interested in seeing The Messenger I wish more of you would have been interested in seeing Fantastic Mr. Fox, which is an excellent film. I could say the fact Fox is in only four theaters this weekend was part of the reason many of you aren't looking it up, but The Messenger is working with the same number so that theory goes out the window. Oh well, do me a favor and keep an eye out for Fantastic Fox as it expands on Thanksgiving.
Now, let's get into things.
The Messenger This is a quality film, but it is a depressing film. For those reasons I'm »
- Brad Brevet
Movie Review: Pirate Radio (2009)
13 November 2009 1:18 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Pirate Radio
Photo: Focus Features Richard Curtis's Pirate Radio features a collage of misfits played by some of the U.K.'s greatest comedic actors with Philip Seymour Hoffman bringing a taste of America to the story. The story isn't true, but is loosely based on a very real situation in the 1960s when the government-backed British Broadcasting Company (BBC) broadcast barely played two hours of rock and pop music every week over the U.K. radio airwaves. Compare this to the 571 American radio stations playing the same music 24 hours a day and you can immediately understand the dilemma. Curtis took this event, filled a ship with pirate radio broadcasters of his own creation and asked himself, "What would happen?" Pirate Radio is the result of that question.
Set in 1966, writer/director Richard Curtis was ten-years-old at the time and wrapped up in the tradition »
- Brad Brevet
The Reject Report Preps for the End of the World in 2012
13 November 2009 12:24 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Well, the end of the world is coming to a theater near you this weekend, and that will be the main focus here at the Reject Report. Yes, the long-awaited disaster epic 2012 is finally upon us and it is sure to be one big hit. That's pretty much the main order of business beyond a few limited releases this weekend. There is, though, one other wide release besides 2012 this weekend. It is Pirate Radio, and it stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans in a story about a jolly band of rebel deejays. It's set in the era of those outlaw pirate radio stations that used to broadcast to the British Isles from boats in the North Sea in the Sixties. Fun stuff. Richard Curtis writes and directs. Personally, I'm probably more interested in seeing Pirate Radio this weekend, mainly because I'm a sucker for anything British from the Sixties, whether »
- John Cairns
Philip Seymour Hoffman Sails To England For 'Pirate Radio'
13 November 2009 12:19 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'You always had to watch getting sunburned!' the actor laughs of shooting the film on a boat.
By Eric Ditzian
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Pirate Radio"
Photo: Focus Features
Attention, casting directors of the world! Want to cast Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman in your new movie? Make sure to shoot it in a location the guy wants to visit. And flesh out the actorly ranks with dudes Hoffman wants to hang out with.
That's pretty much how director Richard Curtis ("Love Actually") and his team nabbed the actor for "Pirate Radio."
"It wasn't really the topic or the theme," Hoffman told MTV News, explaining why he signed on to the project. "The script I thought was very sharp and very funny. And I also thought the idea of it could be oddly moving. But the biggest thing was, 'Oh, God, how great would it be to go to »
Review: Pirate Radio
12 November 2009 11:11 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
If you know me personally, or read anything I write, you know that I worship the 1960s and the music of the time. I grew up behind the seat belt of my dad's Chevy Silverado, driving around town with the Oldies station blaring out songs about Brown Sugar tasting so good, My Guitar Gently weeping, and People Trying to put down my father's generation. I fell in love with grinding guitars, amps that never worked quite right, and the homemade sound of just trying to be louder and more soulful than the guys who were just on stage. As if it were really hard to impress me when a soundtrack includes some of the coolest Rock 'n' Roll of the mid-60s, Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) goes far beyond the Whiter Shade of Pale in order to build an irreverent story that captures the (romanticized) spirit of the time and become one of the »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Movie Review: Pirate Radio
12 November 2009 9:15 PM, PST | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Nov 13, 2009 With a great true story and one of the most purely entertaining ensembles of the year, Richard Curtis' Pirate Radio starts with a bang. It's like walking into a lavish costume party with likable characters, amazing tunes, and simply spectacular period clothes. The problem is that films require a bit more than a costume party. The goodwill of the first half hour or so of Pirate Radio wears off when you realize that it really has nowhere to go after that stellar introduction. Several films in one without fully developing any of ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Pirate Radio Movie Review
12 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
According to the beginning of Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked), in the 1960s, the BBc would only play 2 hours of pop and rock music a week. In the land that gave the world The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, their own citizens weren't able to find a place to listen to it. Until a barrage of "pirate radio" stations emerged, transmitting non-stop rock from boats just on the side of international waters. This is the fictionalized accounts of what happened on one of these boats.
I make it sound very unappealing, don't I? Quite the contrary, actually. Pirate Radio is a charming ensemble comedy that busts out the seams with terrific actors and a fond love of rock music. It stands up there with the greats of classic rock cinema, perhaps even overtaking Almost Famous in my esteem. Although if we're comparing Pirate Radio to other films, »
A SoHo Moment for “Pirate Radio”
12 November 2009 3:54 PM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Actor Tom Sturridge with Bee Shaffer (daughter of Vogue editor Anna Wintour who also attended) in New York’s SoHo ahead of a special screening of director Richard Curtis’ “Pirate Radio.” The film recalls an illegal radio station aboard a boat in the North Sea that broadcast rock music to the U.K. after the BBC had banned it. “Usually films about music show rock stars shooting up heroin in their big toes,” … »
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