Director Richard Curtis acknowledged in an interview that while someone should definitely make a serious movie about offshore radio broadcasting to the U.K. in 1966, his comedy Pirate Radio, which uses the issue as its backdrop, is merely meant to entertain. It does just that, too, using a hilarious cast and loads of great music [...]
Read More Bill Nighy, blu-ray, comedy, David, drama, DVD, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, music, Nick Frost, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pirate Radio, R, Rhys Ifans, Richard Curtis, romance, Tom SturridgeEven before I took my three younger nephews (ages 4, 6, and 7) to see this somewhat frantic, effects-filled kid flick about super spy guinea pigs, they were quoting one-liners from its trailers. Especially funny to them was the sight and sound of one of the rodents farting inside a tricked-out, super-fast hamster ball.
Read More action, adventure, Bill Nighy, DVD, family, Fantasy, Hoyt Yeatman, Jon Favreau, Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, PG-, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Jordan, Will Arnett, Zach GalifianakisWhen one stops to think of exactly how many films in the last sixty-odd years have been made about World War II, it boggles the mind. An encyclopedia that listed each of them, alphabetically, would run thousands of pages, and would still need to be updated every month. Today, we will open that book and [...]
Read More Bill Nighy, blu-ray, Bryan Singer, Carice van Houten, DVD, Eddie Izzard, History, J.D., Kenneth Branagh, PG-13, Terence Stamp, thriller, Tom Cruise, Tom Wilkinson, Valkyrie, war, WWIIKate Beckinsale and her skintight leather outfits are sadly nowhere to be found in this pretentious and poorly lit vampires-vs.-werewolves prequel in which returning players Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen basically duke it out for dominance. Replacing Beckinsale is leather-clad look-alike Rhona Mitra (Doomsday), a sexy butt-kicking bloodsucker whose vampire king dad (Nighy) has enslaved [...]
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