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Sometimes, a good actor can make a bad script tolerable and mediocre script enjoyable.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, and Kenneth Branagh star in a film written and directed by Richard Curtis.

Pirate Radio's hottie Tom Sturridge is not yet 25, but has been acting in movies with the likes of Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives the best performance of his stellar career channeling the eccentric, effeminate, brilliant journalist whose true-crime book remains as riveting today as it was half a century ago.

Pirate Radio's hottie Tom Sturridge is not yet 25, but has been acting in movies with the likes of Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I'm a big fan of both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy . Pirate Radio" is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever.

The 2005 motion picture 'Capote' and the Academy Award winning performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman in the lead role capture the hauntingly dark side of Truman Capote.

"Pirate Radio" is a great classic rock soundtrack in search of a movie. It never really finds one.

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.

This week at the movies, we've got a global catastrophe and some rock 'n' roll rebellion .

Nov 12- "Pirate Radio," a new comedy from the director of "Love, Actually," stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a renegade rock DJ on the high seas, broadcasting illegally to the sixties-era British public.

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as the Count, a Radio Rock DJ illegally broadcasting pop and rock from off the British Isles in the 1960s when the music was ignored by licensed radio stations.

Radio Rock Star: Rhys Ifans plays a popular British DJ - and shameless Lothario - who arrives on a pirate-radio ship ready to rule the airwaves.

According to Pirate Radio 's trailer, rock and roll played loudly throughout Britain until the government said no more.

From left: Hoffman, Rhys Ifans and director Curtis share a laugh on the set of 'Pirate Radio.' Courtesy Focus Features Sure, it's only rock n' roll, but Richard Curtis likes it - " so much that he wrote and directed Pirate Radio , a joyous ode to the irrepressible spirit of rock, put to the severest of tests in the '60s by closed-minded British ...

IT IS something of a coup for Glasgow's Tron theatre to host the European premiere of Neil LaBute's Autobahn.

In "Capote," Philip Seymour Hoffman, right, portrays the writer Truman Capote as he probes the mind of a killer to write 'the first non-fiction novel.

For young actor Tom Sturridge, there was one scene in ''Pirate Radio'' that ''really, truly and absolutely involved no acting on my part whatsoever.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nick Frost star in "Pirate Radio," a film about the ships that illegally broadcast rock music in the U.K. in the 1960s.

Editor's note: The murders of the Clutter family, 50 years ago this month, garnered nationwide headlines and caught the interest of author Truman Capote.