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"Pirate Radio," aka "The Boat That Rocked," is about a short period in Western cultural history that had an impact on the restless and questioning '60s generation.

The star of Stephen Poliakoff's forthcoming Glorious 39 on his neuroses, playing educated toffs and why he digs David Hare 'More people saw me in Love Actually than in everything else I had ever done' a Bill Nighy.

Blowin' it up all the way to the bank: 2012 . You probably didn't need a Mayan prophecy to realize that 2012 was going to be the big winner at the box office over the weekend, but even the most optimistic projections didn't see this coming.

File this under bad planning: it seems like every week Hollywood offers up yet another schlocky horror movie to the court of public opinion, but todaya 'on the always-spooky Friday the 13tha 'there isn't a horror movie in sight.

Set in the 1960s, the film is a comic ensemble tale about a time when rock 'n' roll was strictly rationed by BBC radio and "pirate" stations were set up offshore to broadcast music by the Stones, The Who, the Kinks, Jimi Hendrix and more to the delight of Brits of all sizes, shapes, races and social classes.

Movie Review: Pirate Radio , starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy November 13, 2009 at 11:56 am by Joe Bardi When you strip away all the pomp and circumstance from rock 'n' roll - the fashion and politics and drugs and groupies and stardom and burnout - what's usually left is a few simple chords and a tune you can hum.

Back in the '60s, government-controlled British radio barely ever broadcast popular recorded music.

Philip Seymour Hoffman plays one of the rowdy deejays broadcasting from the North Sea in "Pirate Radio.'' Sometimes history just isn't as much fun as it should be.

Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. Tom Sturridge is probably a name most of you are not familiar with.

Pirate Radio director, Richard Curtis , poses with the film's cast. Before filming began, Curtis put his cast through "boat camp" instead of boot camp.

Eric D. Snider , Nov 13, 2009 "Most of the story is funny and cheerful, and it's bolstered by an utterly fantastic '60s rock soundtrack." In ancient historical times, i.e., 1966, the officially licensed radio stations in England didn't play rock 'n' roll music.

Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. I can't think of a project that Richard Curtis has been involved in that I haven't loved to some degree.

You're no rock 'n' roll fun: Kenneth Branagh tries to spoil all the good vibrations in Pirate Radio .

Pirate Radio Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Rhys Darby, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, and Jack Davenport Written and directed by Richard Curtis 115 minutes Rated R Seven months after its theatrical release in the United Kingdom and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a different title ...

"PIRATE RADIO" = Is it the Rockers or the GOVERNMENT that are the real "Pirates"?! JIM's Rating: 7.5 of 10 stars Quote: "If you're the government & don't like something, you make up a NEW LAW that makes its ILLEGAL!"... Before the film started, we were greeted by Vivian from the Festival, who then introduced WGN critic / reviewer BILL ZWECKER.

This looks like a steaming pile of garbage. Starring the awesome John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Thandie Newton, among others, this film revolves around the end of the world as it occurs according to the end of the Mayan calendar.

Director Richard Curtis, left, January Jones and Chris O Dowd on the set of the comedy Pirate Radio.

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER Richard Curtis, best known for his work on hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Bridget Jones's Diary," got the idea to make a movie about pop music about 10 years ago.

IT'S all aboard the love boat in Richard Curtis's latest film, a tribute to pirate radio in the 1960s.

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Pirate Radio. Final footage of the King of Pop in This Is It.