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Pirate Radio Rock and roll will live forever " but can it float? Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and writer/director of Love Actually),spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band ofrogue rock and roll deejays whose pirate radio captivated andinspired 1960s Britain. Playing the music that rocked a nation and adecade, the group boldly and hilariously defies the government thattries to shut them down. Broadcasting live 24/7 from an old tanker anchored in the middle ofthe North Sea (just beyond British jurisdiction), Radio Rock sends outa vibrant and unifying signal to millions across the nation, ranging inage from wide-eyed pre-teens secretly tuning in long past theirbedtimes to everyday people in need of a musical pick-me-up. The RadioRock roster, overseen by unflappable station owner (and ships captain)Quentin (Bill Nighy), includes a risk-prone American known only as TheCount (Philip Seymour Hoffman); mystic deejay royalty Gavin (RhysIfans); slyly amorous Dave (Nick Frost); idiosyncratic New ZealanderAngus (Rhys Darby); the rarely seen Bob (Ralph Brown); the aptly namedThick Kevin (Tom Brooke); lovelorn Simon (Chris ODowd); ladies magnetMark (Tom Wisdom); shy Harold (Ike Hamilton); reporter News John (WillAdamsdale); and lesbian ships cook Felicity (Katherine Parkinson). Onenight in 1966, Quentins teenaged godson Carl (Tom Sturridge) comesaboard. While Carl harbors romantic aspirations that he hopes will befulfilled during one of the biweekly visits by Radio Rocks prettiestfans, he also hopes to find out more about his long-absent father As the ship sails on and rocks out, what Carl and the freewheeling,free-loving Radio Rock gang dont know is that back in London,landlocked government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) has embarkedon a vehement crusade to silence their signal " permanently. To stayafloat and keep their devoted audience plugged in, the crew will haveto band together and trust in the power of music like never before. |
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A Christmas Carol Disney's "A Christmas Carol," a multi-sensory thril ride re-envisioned by Academy Award winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event.Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. Scrooge later encounters the ghost of his dead business partner Joesph Marley, who's paying the price in the afterlife for his own callousness. Marley hopes to help Scrooge avoid similar fate and tells him that he will be visited by three spirits. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take Old Scrooge on an eye-opening journey revealing truths he's reluctant to face, he must his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late. |
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G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra Paramount Pictures an Hasbro, whose previous collaboration was the worldwide blockbuster Transformers, join forces with spyglass Entertainment for another extraordinary action-adventure, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. Joe team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is directed by Stephen Sommers ("The Mummy," "The Mummy Returns"). |
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5 people will win a New Movie Prize Pack! Trivia Question: Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman both star in Disney's A Christmas Carol, coming to theatres on November 5th. Carrey and Oldman were also co-stars in different films based on what comic book superhero? |
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5 people will win a Pirate Radio movie t-shirt! Trivia Question: Besides being co-stars in Pirate Radio, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson have worked together 4 times previously. Name one of the four films in which both actors co-starred. |