The Runaways | Film review

This in-your-face look at teenage life and the rock scene in mid-1970s Los Angeles begins with menstrual blood dripping from a 15-year-old, who's having her first period on the way to an outing with her elder sister. The movie is a sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll biopic of the first big rock girl band, the Runaways, a collection of social misfits brought together and manipulated into becoming a provocative quintet by the grotesque, foul-mouthed promoter Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon).It's an unedifying ...

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