About as rock and roll as those late-night infomercials pitching metal compilations featuring Winger and Queensryche, The Runaways offers little insight into the influential all-girl rock band, but rather an excuse for the leads to try to shimmy off their Twilight bonds. It comes off as a Teen Titans version of a VH1 Behind the Music -- little girls in Halloween costume wigs trying to pull off rock moves in their mother's makeup mirror. As much as I respect the attempted anti-message of Twilight, any vestiges of grrl power are going to be drowned out by the sounds of perverts fapping under balcony trenchcoats. Running around in your panties, smoking and drugging, and playing at lipstick lesbianism doesn't make you rock n' roll, it makes you a half-assed version of Girl, Interrupted. Music-video director Floria Sigismondi takes Cherie Currie's memoir Neon Angel and turns it into an episode of...
- 3/22/2010
- by Brian Prisco
The Runaways, the biopic about the groundbreaking all-girl rock band starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart, just opened this weekend - and People caught up with real-life members to catch up on their lives 30 years after their split. Best known for hits like "Cherry Bomb" and "Queens of Noise" and controversy-courting style in the days when rock music was dominated by men, the band became an international sensation, inspiring countless artists who followed. "People would say, 'Girls can't play rock 'n' roll,' because socially, rock 'n' roll is sexual and that was threatening to a wide majority of people,...
- 3/21/2010
- by Marisa Laudadio
- PEOPLE.com
A number of readers have ripped me for writing an entire review of The Runaways in which I somehow failed to include a single word about Dakota Fanning's performance. You're right, point taken, I should have. All right, here goes: She was perfectly okay. Actually, when I realized that I'd written the review that way, I just figured that I'd let my lack of comment on Fanning's performance stand as an implicit statement that there wasn't all that much to say about it. She's quite the critics' darling these days -- always has been, really -- but to me,...
- 3/20/2010
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
'They had a really unique relationship,' KStew says of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in "The Runaways"
Photo: Apparition
In "Edgeplay," the documentary about the Runaways, Cherie Currie declared that bandmate Joan Jett is good in bed. That tantalizing revelation raised as many questions as it answered about the '70s rock icons, and the new feature film, "The Runaways," does not shy away from exploring the specter of girl-on-girl sexuality.
Kristen Stewart as Jett and Dakota Fanning as Currie are seen woozily locking lips and then waking up in bed together. So were the two musicians in a relationship? Were they just two teens having fun? These remain open questions, even for the two actresses.
"They were really good friends, and whatever happened just kind of happened," Fanning told MTV News.
"They had a really unique relationship,...
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in "The Runaways"
Photo: Apparition
In "Edgeplay," the documentary about the Runaways, Cherie Currie declared that bandmate Joan Jett is good in bed. That tantalizing revelation raised as many questions as it answered about the '70s rock icons, and the new feature film, "The Runaways," does not shy away from exploring the specter of girl-on-girl sexuality.
Kristen Stewart as Jett and Dakota Fanning as Currie are seen woozily locking lips and then waking up in bed together. So were the two musicians in a relationship? Were they just two teens having fun? These remain open questions, even for the two actresses.
"They were really good friends, and whatever happened just kind of happened," Fanning told MTV News.
"They had a really unique relationship,...
- 3/19/2010
- MTV Movie News
Warning: Minor Spoilers
The Runaways had a typical teenage dream: they wanted to be rock stars. But unlike most restless adolescents with that vague hunger, they actually came close to superstardom. That's not a story you hear every day, especially not when the musicians are female and the music is an aggressive jumble of glam, punk, and straight-ahead rock.
The rise and fall of this pioneering all-girl band is a tale worth telling, but the film The Runaways isn't quite up to the task: it misses opportunities for fun and reduces heartfelt dreams to hackneyed drama. Luckily, Kristen Stewart is more than able to fill in the gaps and remind us why we love rock 'n' roll.
The Runaways depicts the formation, first tour and subsequent unraveling of the band. To writer/director Floria Sigismondi, "band" really means guitarist Joan Jett (Stewart) and lead singer Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) — guitarist...
The Runaways had a typical teenage dream: they wanted to be rock stars. But unlike most restless adolescents with that vague hunger, they actually came close to superstardom. That's not a story you hear every day, especially not when the musicians are female and the music is an aggressive jumble of glam, punk, and straight-ahead rock.
The rise and fall of this pioneering all-girl band is a tale worth telling, but the film The Runaways isn't quite up to the task: it misses opportunities for fun and reduces heartfelt dreams to hackneyed drama. Luckily, Kristen Stewart is more than able to fill in the gaps and remind us why we love rock 'n' roll.
The Runaways depicts the formation, first tour and subsequent unraveling of the band. To writer/director Floria Sigismondi, "band" really means guitarist Joan Jett (Stewart) and lead singer Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) — guitarist...
- 3/12/2010
- by scribegrrrl
- AfterEllen.com
Dakota Fanning has once confirmed that she indeed has a make-out scene with her "The Runaways" co-star Kristen Stewart. MTV recently managed to take a peek at Los Angeles Times' article featured in its upcoming Sunday, January 17 edition, in which director Floria Sigismondi talks about the raunchy scene.
"In 'Edgeplay' [Cherie Currie's memoir], Cherie mentions that Joan [Jett] is really good in bed," the helmer, who also writes the script for the biopic, teases. "I thought, 'I have to pry into this a bit. It will cause an explosion in the film. Why not go there?'"
The same article also mentions that the movie is actually about a character study of Joan and Cherie instead of a straight history of the evolution of their band The Runaways. Producer John Linson additionally dishes on the film, saying "It's about 15-year-old rock stars, the rise and fall of kids. We're trying hard not...
"In 'Edgeplay' [Cherie Currie's memoir], Cherie mentions that Joan [Jett] is really good in bed," the helmer, who also writes the script for the biopic, teases. "I thought, 'I have to pry into this a bit. It will cause an explosion in the film. Why not go there?'"
The same article also mentions that the movie is actually about a character study of Joan and Cherie instead of a straight history of the evolution of their band The Runaways. Producer John Linson additionally dishes on the film, saying "It's about 15-year-old rock stars, the rise and fall of kids. We're trying hard not...
- 1/16/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The Runaways will finally debut at Sundance next week, so we're slowly but surely getting some more details on the film and its writer/director Floria Sigismondi. The Italian-born music video creator (Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People," Christina Aguilera's "Fighter") talked with the L.A. Times about the film and what she hopes to accomplish with telling the story of the first popular all-girl band.
"It's young girls getting swept up into a world they couldn't handle," Sigismondi told the paper. "Feeding on those confusing feelings that develop from moving from girl to woman, I could reach deep into myself to find those things."
Sigismodni said the film focuses mostly on Joan Jett and Cherie Curie, played, of course, by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning to illustrate, "How different they are, how they were drawn together for this crazy experience. Joan is so focused, she really wanted to have this band.
"It's young girls getting swept up into a world they couldn't handle," Sigismondi told the paper. "Feeding on those confusing feelings that develop from moving from girl to woman, I could reach deep into myself to find those things."
Sigismodni said the film focuses mostly on Joan Jett and Cherie Curie, played, of course, by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning to illustrate, "How different they are, how they were drawn together for this crazy experience. Joan is so focused, she really wanted to have this band.
- 1/15/2010
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
Floria Sigismondi’s punk girl biopic “The Runaways” may still be short a few bandmembers, but the director may be making room for a boy: Michael Shannon, the buzzed-about character actor who finally snagged an Oscar nomination this year for his performance in “Revolutionary Road.” Scheduling conflicts could keep him from rocking out in “The Runaways,” but The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Shannon is currently “in negotiations” to play alongside Kristen Stewart’s Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning’s Cherie Currie.
What’s not specified is which of the few male roles Shannon is interested in. It is possible that the actor might be playing music producer Kim Fowley. While the idea of an all-girl band really belonged to Joan Jett and Sandy West, it was their associations with Fowley that helped them recruit other the other band members. Fowley’s marketing helped The Runaways become a phenomenon, but rumors...
What’s not specified is which of the few male roles Shannon is interested in. It is possible that the actor might be playing music producer Kim Fowley. While the idea of an all-girl band really belonged to Joan Jett and Sandy West, it was their associations with Fowley that helped them recruit other the other band members. Fowley’s marketing helped The Runaways become a phenomenon, but rumors...
- 6/1/2009
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- MTV Movies Blog
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