“Rock-N-Roll, or as your grandmother knew it as ‘The Devil’s Music’, has once again made its stain on pop culture.” Now that the 80 year old typing on his 30 year old dusty typewriter is done and passed away lets talk about a movie. “Pirate Radio” is a fantastic movie depicting the struggles that many teenagers in the UK had to endure to shake their “bons-bons to some tunage”, also known as music to those of pseudo-language illiterate followers. Phillip Seymour Hoffman (A.K.A. The flippin’ Man) has torn up the silver screen again with his dramatic (HA!) representation of “The Count”.
For those cinematic enthusiasts (junkies) like myself, I found it refreshing to see Hoffman in a comedic role that was similar to his mastering of Lester Bangs in “Almost Famous”. Combine an American smart-ass with British dry-humor and the result is a fantastic flipping movie! The ensemble cast includes some British royalties: Bill Nighy (Underworld Trilogy, Hot Fuzz), Rhys Ifans (The Replacements, Notting Hill), Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), and Rhys Darby (Flight of The Conchords, 7 Days). Rhys Darby isn’t exactly British but he is from New Zealand so who the hell knows the difference?!
This movie combines factual occurrences with minor blips of imagination to illustrate the power that the British Government used to implement to ATTEMPT control over the sound waves. Fortunately for those teenagers and young souls living in the UK, there was a group of rebels willing to put it all on the line to stick it to the man! Go for the music and stay for the anarchy!!!!
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