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The Runaways (2010)

By WatchMovieOnline ⋅ November 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Monkees were cobbled together in the Sixties as America’s answer to the Beatles and plonked in a zany television sitcom; yet the songs – perky, infectious, intricately-crafted – were actually quite good. As cartoon characters, the Archies were even less “real”, but Sugar, Sugar, their worldwide hit of 1969, is two minutes and 48 seconds of pure pop.
A few years later came a confection rather less wholesome but just as mouth-watering – the Runaways. The first all-girl rock-and-roll…

Step Up 3D (2010)

By WatchMovieOnline ⋅ September 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m still not certain the Step Up films take place in the real world. Dance is so important to the characters that inhabit this plane of reality that I barely recognize it. Is every move a metaphor? “Battling” surely seems a surrogate for a fistfight, while love is manifested with more delicate gymnastics. Context regardless, the seriousness with which they approach their art is unshakable. Conversely, as someone who finds their rhythmic jiving inherently silly — yes, I saw Step…

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