Times Square

“Everything you do is poetry” …. and I’m supposed to believe these two girls are just friends

Liz

With a spirit half made of misanthropy and half of punk rock; “Times Square” is a scrawl of an anthem to the most proud of all feminist traditions: rebellion.  A favorite film entry of riot grrrl icons, not the least of which is Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, “Times Square”…

theriverjordan

Dear Daddy, I am not kidnapped. I am me-napped I am soul-napped I am Nicky-napped I am happy-napped Here’s a wonderful urban punk fairytale from Allan Moyle, the writer/director of Pump Up the Volume and Empire Records. It’s a sloppy, unfocused early film, but the…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

The crop of New York-set movies from 1980 -- Can't Stop the Music, Cruising, Maniac, this -- are so fascinating to me because they're so trapped in a moment, torn between the past excesses that they glorify and the bleached moral and social gentrification that'd start…

Liz

This film is wooden, awkward and doesn't make sense at times. Still, it's a perfect slice of teenage confusion, of unlikely friendship and amazing tunes. The film opens with one of my favourite Roxy Music tracks, 'Same Old Scene', and it's wrong and perfect for the film…

Vanina

"The question we want to ask ourselves today, especially those of us with children, is this: Do we want to live in an X-rated city?" YES, PLEASE

Justin LaLiberty

“I really was just playing myself and probably would have died young had I not had a chance to channel my self-destruction into a starring movie role.” - Robin Johnson “I swear to God I’ve never seen an actress like this. She’s Mick Jagger plus Marilyn Monroe.” - Courtney…

Joshua Dysart

A near perfect movie snapshot of teen rebellion and friendship among outsiders set against Times Square as the seediest playground on Earth. The two young women traipse along 42nd Street movie palaces to the Talking Heads "Life During Wartime" and do mock kung-fu under the…

laird

A time capsule of the '80s, where mental breakdowns were treated with flashing neon lights, sleepless nights, and a heavy dose of stripping. Who needed therapy when you had Times Square?

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