Vanessa Hudgens
Movie Review: Gimme Shelter
The story, Gimme Shelter centers on Agnes “Apple” Bailey played by Vanessa Hudgens. The film is based on the true-life story of a sixteen year old living with her drug addict/prostitute mother June Bailey (Rosario Dawson). Apple grows up never knowing her father, moving from foster home to foster home, in and out of the system, dependent upon a mother that cannot keep it together. She holds onto h...[Read More]
Movie Review: Machete Kills
Among the myriad filmmakers working in Hollywood today, Robert Rodriguez truly stands out as unique and fascinating. Much like his friend and frequent collaborator Quentin Tarantino, Rodriguez has made his career by celebrating the kind of films he grew up loving, mainly the genres of action, crime, and exploitation, and mashing them up with his own artistic sensibilities. The film of his that per...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Mexican Badass is Back in Machete Kills
May is over, and we’re now into the second month of the 2013 summer movie season. More to the point, this means that the release of Man of Steel is less than two weeks away, and I couldn’t be more excited. But looking beyond the summer, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the first teaser for one of my most anticipated films of the fall, Robert Rodriguez’s Ma...[Read More]
Movie Review: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
You know you’re in for something odd when the commercials proudly show Dwayne Johnson bouncing a berry off his chest in the most gratuitous of 3D effects. What’s worse is when you find out this is actually the most entertaining scene of the whole movie. While for the most part the film is harmless, especially for kids, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island suffers from a lack of decent dialogue, gaping...[Read More]