DAKOTA FANNING: Viewpoint

Chloe Moretz is HIT GIRL KICK-ASS (2010)—Blame my brother for recommending this movie, unusual, yes, as our mutual taste in enter...

THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976)—TCM is celebrating the work of Walter Matthau for Summer under the Stars; one of the featured films  was THE B...

THE RUNNAWAYS (2010)—I grew up in the seventies; I was never what you might call your typical impressionable hot blooded American boy, I ...

Saturday July 17, 2010 I don’t care who you are—Now that thar is a pretty girl!  People doubt me, but I knew even when Dakota was...

ORPHAN (2009)─The movies have a long history of plumbing the depths of the child/psycho-killer genre; indeed wicked murderous children ...

Monday February 1, 2010 SUNDANCE 01.30.10 "The Runaways" A somewhat fictionalized version of the life and times of the 197...

Saturday January 30, 2010 Dakota Fanning appears on the cover of V magazine looking mighty scary with her "big hair." ...

Friday 14 August '09 FRAGMENTS aka WINGED CREATURES (2008)―On an ordinary day, in ordinary suburbia, in an ordinary diner, trag...

Friday 07 August '09 Dakota Fanning enjoys a fun day with friends at Santa Monica Pier. Doesn't she look absolutely casual and r...

Tuesday May 12, 2009 HOUNDDOG (2007) A Southern Gothic tale set in 1961 Alabama about a troubled girl who finds solace and ultimate r...

Saturday May 2, 2009 DAKOTA FANNING ( NEW MOON ), age fifteen, was named by PEOPLE MAGAZINE, along with Dev Patel, Emma Watson, and ...

Tuesday April 7, 2009 DAKOTA FANNING —Here is a young woman in possession of an extraordinary social conscience, who really understan...

Friday March 19, 2009 CORALINE (2009)—The first ever stop-motion animated film to be shot entirely in 3-D, continues to attract movieg...

Saturday March 7, 2009 VARIETY (03.04.09) — Dakota Fanning is negotiating to play lead singer Cherie Currie in "The Runaways,...

Friday February 13, 2009 PUSH (2009) Directed by Paul Mc Guigan (Lucky Number Slevin), is loud, choppy; the plot is confusing as it is...

Sunday February 7, 2009 CORALINE (2009) is a high-definition stop-motion animated feature, the first to be originally filmed in 3-D, w...

KIT KITTREDGE : AN AMERICAN GIRL (2008) a movie based on a doll? My skepticism meter was off the scale, as I investigated further I re...

Thursday October 16, 2008 USA TODAY— Dakota Fanning , 14, will receive the Rising Star Award at the 20th Palm Springs International F...

Saturday October 4, 2008 WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ? When the rumor first surfaced, as to Dakota being a cheerleader I'll admit, I wa...

Tuesday September 16, 2008 Dakota Fanning promises to live a good and clean teenage life. American child actress Dakota Fanning, 14, has...