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'The Runaways': Rock 'n' Roll Herstorynew
Floria Sigismondi has composed an artfully condensed cinematic snapshot that mercifully avoids most of the pitfalls of the celebrity biopic.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
04-07-2010 |
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Sundance Festival Goes Back to its Roots... Or Does It?new
This year, the movie that's attracted the scalping scene outside Eccles is The Runaways, a stylish biopic of the all-teen girl band of the same name. The film has been the subject of blog gossip, thanks to casting of Twilight starlet Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-05-2010 |
Movies
Dakota Fanning is Abused by Racism and Breakfast Foods in 'Bees'new
In case you are pondering whether to take your children -- or, bless your sweet little heart, yourself -- to see The Secret Life of Bees, it seems helpful to clarify up front that this is the Southern-set Dakota Fanning movie in which Dakota Fanning does not get raped. (That would be Hounddog.)
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-16-2008 |
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'The Secret Life of Bees': Hive Fidelity
The Secret Life of Bees stays true to its source -- not that that's necessarily a good thing.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-13-2008 |
Reviews
'Hounddog': Amorphous Southern Soupnew
Even before its premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Hounddog was known as "the Dakota Fanning rape movie." The film got a lot of notoriety but for more than a year, until this spring, couldn't get a distributor.
The Memphis Flyer |
Greg Akers |
09-19-2008 |
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Sugarcoated Tale
This DreamWorks production about a little girl and a special horse is slow-moving and treacly, and--unless you actually buy that bit of marketing flimflam about being "inspired by a true story"--it yields no surprises.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2005 |
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