If you like 60s Rock and Roll, then Pirate Radio is definitely worth seeing, if only to hear the soundtrack. But it’s entertaining beyond that as a ship full of guys anchored of the coast of Britain beam the officially frowned upon noise of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Kinks, Cream, etc. to Britons often listening surreptitiously at home. With the ensemble cast, Philip Seymour Hoffman doesn’t get as much room to maneuver as his fans might like, but it works out fine.
Kind of hard to believe that I hadn’t seen Dazed and Confused by this time in my life. But I was a sheltered boy. Funny to watch this extremely dated movie about the final day of high school in the 1976–as contemplated in 1993. Fun to see Ben Affleck as a senior (not for the first time) trying to haze the upcoming football freshman and the already-graduated-oddly-hanging-around-high-school-girls Matthew McConaughey (who wore his shirt the whole movie!). Not as memorable as people told me it would be.
Judge me if you must, but I have considered myself a Mike Myers fan for a long time. Nevertheless, even I cannot defend The Love Guru despite the presence of Justin Timberlake. I’m not even going to try to explain it. See it at your own peril.
