Joan Jett Articles

Dakota Fanning (center), Kristen Stewart (right) in The Runaways THE RUNAWAYS: Kristen Stewart’s Reviews Kristen Stewart — looking remarkably different from Robert Pattinson’s human lover in Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon — Dakota Fanning, and Michael Shannon star in The Runaways, written and directed by Floria Sigismondi (right). Adapted from The Runaways’ singer Cherie Currie’s autobiography, The Runaways tells the story of the [...]

Kristen Stewart in The Runaways THE RUNAWAYS Reviews Kristen Stewart, in her first starring vehicle following her success as the befuddled heroine in The Twilight Saga movies, has received many more bouquets from critics than fellow Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon co-star Robert Pattinson. For his performance as a rebellious young man in Allen Coulter’s romantic drama Remember Me, Pattinson has been greeted [...]

Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning in The Runaways Kristen Stewart appears to have been luckier than Robert Pattinson in her choice of non-Twilight Saga vehicle. Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi from singer Cherie Currie’s autobiography, The Runaways has received mostly positive notices from US critics. Even those who weren’t all that enthusiastic about the film praised the performances, particularly those of Stewart as rocker Joan [...]

In The Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt calls Kristen Stewart’s performance as The Runaways singer Joan Jett "the driving force" of Floria Sigismondi’s debut narrative film The Runaways, which co-stars Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon. Tatum O’Neal, a child star and already an Oscar winner at the time Jett’s band came to prominence in the mid-’70s, has a supporting role in the film. At Entertainment Weekly, [...]