bellows Kim Fowley in "The Runaways." "You bitches have to start thinking like men." Fowley, of course, isn't just trying to "toughen up" the all-girl band he manages. He's also expressing the ...

Floria Sigismondi’s “The Runaways,” based on a true story, concerns itself less with a rock band’s rise and fall than with the tale of one young woman’s breakdown. Cherie Currie (Dakota ...

While rock biopics can sometimes be an unwieldy beast, The Runaways is a strikingly honest look at a band that was much too young for its britches. With 15 year old Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning ...

It’s about the formation in 1975 of Joan Jett’s first band, the Runaways — a rigorous selection process apparently based largely on who might look good standing where — and follows the ...

From left, Victory Tischler-Blue (or Vicki Blue, as she was known then), Joan Jet, Lita Ford and Sandy West of the band Runaways. The photograph was taken after the original singer Cherie Currie ...