Word: jailbaiting
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Then Dakota Fanning gets ahold of the film, steals it from Stewart and seduces us utterly. Fanning plays Cherie Currie, recruited at age 15 by Svengali Kim Fowley (a witty Michael Shannon) to sing and provide what he calls "jailbait sex appeal." The movie was based on Currie's memoir, Neon Angel, so we get a much fuller picture of her home life than that of anyone else in the band, even Jett. Currie has an alcoholic father (Brett Cullen), a foolish mother (Tatum O'Neal) and a sister, Marie (Riley Keough), who in real life is an identical twin...
...action scenes glorify his physique. In transfer from page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse, the supporting actors—creepy Alan Rickman and noseless Ralph Fiennes—are beautiful people who have fun dressing down. Yet for the child protagonists, good looks are a must...
...joins the esteemed ranks of Mia Farrow, Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep; women who Allen portrays as both the model of feminine perfection and as the downfall of man. Nola doesn’t have the quirkiness of Annie Hall, the innocence of “Manhattan” jailbait Tracey, or the frantic delusions of Anjelica Houston’s doomed mistress in “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (the Allen film to which “Match Point” bears the most similarity); instead, she seems painfully real. Johansson appears entirely vulnerable while exuding sexual...
...process, Kate is also doing a good deed for Alicia Silverstone, the actress who plays her. Clueless, a 1995 teen comedy (in which she played, yes, a romantic-softy matchmaker), and her breakthrough jailbait performances in The Crush and a trio of Aerosmith videos made her a teenage "It" girl. But a few failed movies and a teensy weight gain later, she was on track to becoming a remembrance in a VH1 It Came from the '90s special. By design or by necessity, "I got off the fast track," the actress, 26, says...
...Donnas’ fifth full-length effort, Spend the Night, raises a question: just how much more of the band’s jailbait, piss-and-estrogen rock can one palate? The algorithm for their records has always been fairly obvious, drawing its vivacity from the Beach Boys, melody from the Ramones and potency from Bikini Kill. But even the most rawking of formulas will eventually become tiresome as they keep cranking out the same three-minute, guitar-reliant anthems. The Donnas may need to do some tweaking, and God forbid, some maturing, as the years...