The Runaways (2010)

The Runaways had a typical teenage dream: they wanted to be rock stars. But unlike most restless adolescents with that vague hunger, they actually came close to superstardom. That's not a story you hear every day, especially not when the musicians are female and the music is an aggressive jumble of glam, punk, and straight-ahead rock.

The rise and fall of this pioneering all-girl band is a tale worth telling, but the film The Runaways isn't quite up to the task: it misses opportunities for fun and reduces heartfelt dreams to hackneyed drama. Luckily, Kristen Stewart is more than able to fill in the gaps and remind us why we love rock 'n' roll.

The Runaways depicts the formation, first tour and subsequent unraveling of the band. To writer/director Floria Sigismondi, "band" really means guitarist Joan Jett (Stewart) and lead singer Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) — guitarist Lita Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton) and drummer Sandy West (Stella Maeve) are minor characters, while bassist Robin (Alia Shawkat) is entirely fictional. Most group scenes, including rehearsals and concerts, are brief and focus more on each girl's interactions with controlling, crazed manager Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) than on internal band dynamics.
Maybe the lack of focus on the band as a whole shouldn't be a surprise — after all, the screenplay is based on Cherie Currie's memoir Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story — but you'll be forgiven for expecting a broader view from a film that has the band's name as its title.
Instead, it's all Currie from the opening scene, and startlingly so — the first shots are a visual "cherry bomb," in the form of drops of Cherie Currie's menstrual blood falling to the ground. Cherie's not prepared for the sudden onset of womanhood, and it's the first event in a passive/reactive pattern that emerges as the film progresses. She doesn't make things happen; life happens to her.Currie doesn't even seek out the Runaways, though she does love music (especially David Bowie). The band's (male) manager Kim Fowley finds Currie in a club (Rodney Bingenheimer's ramshackle and historic English Disco, a fudging of facts but a nice nod to '70s glam culture). Cherie has just the Brigitte Bardot–esque look the band needs, at least according to Fowley. But as Kim promises to make her a star, Cherie just waits and stares. Her genre is more girl bland than girl band.Review by afterellen.com

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Subtitles: English (soft)

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Habitación en Roma (2010)

One of the most wanted lez films of this year is posted especially in love week celebration and it is provided by my one true love Kiki!  We all thank you, baby!

International movie title: Room in Rome (2010)

Early summer. A hotel room in the heart of Rome. Two young women who have only just met travel together on an intimate, passionate physical journey that will mark their bodies and souls deeply. The story unfolds over twelve hours, through the night and into the early morning, before each woman departs, Alba to Spain, and Natasha to Russia. The room seems always to have been waiting for them. Its ancient walls exudes a magical atmosphere heavy with sensuality and ripe with endless erotic possibilities.

As Alba and Natasha enter into the unknown, intense new feelings are awakened, and a natural understanding between them grows giving rise to comic as well as powerfully intimate moments, before the unexpected arrival of love pierces them. At first they hide, cautious, protecting themselves. Slowly they allow themselves to be borne away, each into the unknown terrain of the other, yet never abandoning the honest love felt for their respective partners - in Alba’s case, a mother of two, in Natasha's, the man she is due to marry in one week... Until at last both find themselves transfixed before a completely new truth, a shared abyss, a secret kept in a hotel room in Rome. A true freedom to do whatever they most fervently desire.

Una habitación de hotel en el centro de Roma es el escenario interior en el que dos mujeres jóvenes que se acaban de conocer, se internan juntas en una aventura física que les tocará el alma.
    Todo transcurre en una noche y en las primeras horas de la mañana de un día del comienzo del verano de 2008, antes de que Roma lance a cada una de ellas al lugar al que pertenecen; por la tarde Alba (Elena Anaya) volará a España, y Natasha (Nathasa Yarovenko) a Rusia.
    La habitación del hotel, que parece haberlas estado esperando siempre con la emoción de la Historia incrustada en sus viejas paredes, sugestiona una atmósfera cargada de erotismo y sensualidad, con una extraña fuerza que engancha sus miradas apuntando hacia lo desconocido. Nacen sentimientos nuevos que Alba y Natasha aceptan, y al mismo tiempo quitan importancia hablándose con soltura y buen humor. Un pacto natural de ligereza que propicia situaciones tan cómicas como enigmáticas, antes del ataque inesperado de un amor punzante como una flecha lanzada desde lo alto. Durante doce horas, de noche y de día, estas dos mujeres desvelarán sus vidas, primero ocultándose y protegiéndose por miedo a la atracción sin retorno, luego dejándose acompañar hacia el paisaje desconocido de la otra, habitado por sus compromisos y el amor sincero hacia sus respectivas parejas; en el caso de Alba, una mujer que tiene dos hijos; y el de Natasha, su profesor de Renacimiento con el que se va a casar la próxima semana.
    Ambas girarán sobre sí mismas hasta ponerse boca arriba mirando juntas hacia otra verdad, un abismo compartido, el secreto guardado en una habitación en Roma, una sorpresa del tiempo anterior que les adelanta, un regalo del destino para que hagan con él lo que más deseen. Así nace para ellas su nueva libertad. Offficial site review

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Audio Language:English/DvdRip version:

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with English subs where needed

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Audio Language: Español/Screener version:

http://rapidshare.com/files/419932416/domaro.rar

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no subs