Video: "Pirate Radio" - Official Trailer [HD]

First of all, the trailer is all crap. It's a good introduction, but it doesn't reflect the plot of the movie or what it stands for. I guess the studios behind the movie got scared of having a real message. It often seems like the business moguls of the entertainment world deem humanity even stupider than it really is. That is anoying. That aside, Pirate Radio (a.k.a The Boat That Rocked) is a great movie about great times and mostly about the love for music. Yes, it's simplistic. Yes, it stereotypical and takes an extremely idealizing stand. However, if you [...]

Friday, November 13, 2009 Due to some technical difficulties, I was unable to make my trailer-related picks from last week. I was rushing about the windy, near-frigid streets of New York, broke-ass computer weighing me down, striving, with all of my exasperated might to find an Apple-sponsored store. But alack and alas, nothing. It's alright though, this week my approval and dismissal of movies based on their minute-long trailers will be twice as amazing. I wrote that in stone on a rock in the garden, so you know it [...]

OPENING NATIONWIDE 2012 Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton Directed by: Roland Emmerich Pirate Radio Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost Directed by: Richard Curtis OPE...

Unprecedented, we are doubling up our video of the week choice for Friday the 13th. Finally, a flick with an indie premise. Philip Seymour Hoffman and friends, I don't think this largely marketed box office release will disappoint this Friday. Drop a comment if you end up checking it out...

I can't say I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis ' body of work (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill , and writer/director of Love Actually ), but I'm mildly interested in Pirate Radio , which opens nationwide on November 13th. Curtis, who hails from New Zealand, apparently came up with concept for the film about a band of merry pirate radio station DJs set in the '60s about ten years ago but kept the idea on the back burner while working on other film projects. [...]