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Punk Singer (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 80 mins

  • Director: Sini Anderson
  • Producer: Sini Anderson; Gwen Bialic

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One for the feminists...

Kathleen Hanna - for those of you who don't know - is as punk as lettuce. We like lettuce...but, not on its own.

Kathleen is a very pleasant, heterosexual, middle-class woman who likes to talk and scream and sing about important issues...however, according to this film, those important issues seem to get lost within the endless archival clips.

Now, if she had been or was or is a superstar - this kind of retrospective would have been an okay film. But, alas, we had never heard of her or her many bands...and, what we took away from the whole thing was...a pleasant lady with a good voice and a terrible taste in music...not very punk.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.

Cast & Characters

Joan Jett as Herself;
Carrie Brownstein as Herself;
Tavi Gevinson as Herself;
Adam Horovitz as Himself;
Kathleen Hanna as Herself;
Kim Gordon as Herself;
Corin Tucker as Herself;
Jocelyn Samson as Herself;
Jennifer Baumgardner as Herself;
Kathryn Wilcox as Herself