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Musicalifornication, Reviews of Movies We've Actually Seen
The Runaways: The Role Kristen Stewart Was Born to PlayWhich came first, the chicken or the egg? And by that, we mean, which came first: Kristen Stewart getting the role of angsty rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways, or Stewart dressing and pouting like an angsty rocker at awards shows? Whether the role made the woman or the woman made the role, it would require some research to answer, but you can't deny that Stewart plays the part of the misfit Jett well, and is part of a decent cast that inhabits this simple, familiar, drug-addled tale of a rock-and-roll rise and fall. You can probably guess at everything that will happen, even if you don't know the story of the Runaways (an all-girl punk group that included Jett and Lita Ford), because it seems like a well-worn path for successful bands: struggle, success, drugs, breakup. But as long as you don't need a particularly engaging story, this long music video is beautifully shot and the characters all look sufficiently bad-ass for the movie's sole purpose: to chronicle how much the Runaways rocked.
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This Friday welcomes the release of the Runaways biopic, cleverly titled The Runaways, with Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in the lead roles as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, respectively. And while the movie actually looks like a lot of fun, that casting has been hilarious since the day it was announced. If this movie makes money and spawns a trend, we could have a whole pipeline full of tween-targeted biopics of people they've never heard of coming at us. Here are my predictions and suggestions for future musical biopics the tween audience can hilariously ruin.
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Camera... Action Jackson!, Lights, Little TV Shows That Done Hit the Big Time, Sci-Fidelity, You Got Comic Book in My Movie
Push: Best Heroes Episode Ever?We've been watching the commercials and trailers for the movie Push for a while now, and we're pretty psyched to see it in theaters. In fact, we're more psyched to see the psychic shenanigans of Push than we are to see every single remaining episode of Heroes Volume 4, a.k.a. "Fugitives." After the disappointment of "Generations" and the further disappointment of "Villains," we'd prefer to see super-powers in the hands of people who will actually do interesting things with them, and not just act stupid, visit the future and let themselves get tricked all the time. Here are our reasons Push is the best Heroes episode ever, and why Friday night is our new Monday night.
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This Friday's movie releases have something for everyone. For the politics-loving conspiracy theorist, there's W., Ollie Stone's take on the current president. For horny teenage boys -- hell, for horny boys of all ages -- there's Sex Drive, a teenage sex comedy whose red-band clip on the Internet features a woman giving the film's heavy set protagonist a Lewinsky before using him as a human toilet (I'm not kidding). And for the ladies, there's 40-year old Dakota Fanning in The Secret Life of Bees. Choose wisely, because something's gotta get that damn Chihuahua off the top of the chart.
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