The Runaways(2010)Before Courtney Love or even the Go-Gos, there was the late ’70s nymph quintet from L.A called The Runaways, a sexpot jailbait rock concept from music guru Kim Fowley that would lauch the careers of Joan Jett and Lita Ford. The mixture of Jett’s rock and roll arrangements and punk bravado mixed with the libido-propelled presence of the band’s 15-year-old singer Cherie Curie broke the convention that only men could relish the Dionysus perks of music stardom. While The Runaways had a brief, four-year-run, their music and gender-defining stance still puts them in high esteem with XX and XY rockers alike. With such praise and influence, this year’s “The Runaways” seemed like a passionate tribute to the band’s legacy.
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Twilight: Eclipse(2010)A review in short letters to the characters and film crew…
Dear Jacob and Edward,
Get over it. Bella is playing you like a fiddle. Why your respective families insist on helping you defend this manipulative little brat is beyond me. She can barely manage a smile and also barely manages to be able to make you both smile.
Jacob, stop wanting to hump her leg. There are plenty other better "mates" to "imprint" on. BTW: what does imprint mean? Are you going to pee on her leg to establish ownership?
Edward, no matter how lame you are, you can still find a better woman for yourself. Also, aren't you 100+ years old? I'm 32 and I find this chick terribly annoying to the point of wanting to watch her enemies devour her. Evolve a bit, buddy. You are letting a teenager manipulate the crap out of you. Sucker! You make love look like painful constipation.
Both of you should stop fighting over this Olive Oyl and fight over someone who is at least interesting. Or hot. Or capable of smiling.
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Yet another example about the weak ass scenes we're expecting from "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". Dakota Fanning is cool, we said that in our previous review, but the rest of the cast seems to be... well, a joke.
Expect this to bore your asses off (unless you're some brain dead 14 year old with no idea what good literature is) June 30th, 2010.
The trailer is inside the post. It was auto-playing and being more annoying than intended.
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Lookout presents The Runaways
“Twilight” sirens Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning find better stuff to do than become enamored by personality deficient vampires in “The Runaways”, a rock bio based on the group by the title name that featured legendary rockers Cherie Currie(Fanning), Joan Jett(Stewart) and Lita Ford(Scout Taylor-Compton from the “Halloween” remakes). Directed by longtime video maker Floria Sigismondi, “The Runaways” made a big splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Why wouldn’t it, the stars of the era’s biggest romance fall the all too old mantra of sex, drugs and Rock and Roll(it’s a rather easy sell, if you ask us). |
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Man on Fire (2004)
Tony Scott has been taken off the cool director list. Sure, he should have been taken off the list ages ago, but we were giving him the benefit of the doubt because 1993’s “True Romance” is on his resume. “Man on Fire” could have been pretty cool, even with Denzel Washington as the lead, but fails thanks to poor direction. The story follows a damaged man, Creasy (Washington), who is hired by Samuel (Marc Anthony) and Lisa (Radha Mitchell) protect their young daughter. Creasy isn’t being paid very much for the job. And you get what you pay for when things start to go wrong. Creasy is shown a glimpse that life can actually be worth living by Pita (Dakota Fanning). When she is kidnapped and held for ransom, Creasy decides he has to do what he does - and slam some heads into cars* to get to the truth. |
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Push opens up with a man looking for a place to hide eventually reaching a room where he dispenses some wisdom to his son, to help a child that gives him a flower. Years later we see that this child has grown up into the talented, but unlucky in landing a decent movie, Chris Evans, playing Nick Grant.
