Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Get out your barrels and glowing swords, we're reviewing The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!

Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Gandalf (Ian McKellen), and the dwarves are still on their quest to take back their home from the great dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). Can they get to the mountain and defeat the dragon? Probably not for another movie.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Out of the Furnace

Get out your rifles and hand-wraps, we're reviewing Out of the Furnace!

Russell Baze (Christian Bale) tries to lead a simple life working at the mill, while his brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) wants out of the simple life. He sees his only way out through underground fighting. When Rodney gets in over his head and goes missing, Russell will have to decide how far he's willing to go to find his brother.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Frozen

Get out your ice blocks and reindeer, we're reviewing Frozen!

Anna (Idina Menzel) and Elsa (Kristen Bell) are sisters. Elsa has magical ice powers, but because of an accident, Anna doesn't know about them. When an incident occurs, Elsa runs away from her kingdom and her powers accidentally trigger an ongoing winter across the land. Anna must travel up a mountain to bring her back and save the kingdom! Maybe, with the help of Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) the ice deliverer, his reindeer Sven, and an ice-magic-animated snowman, Olaf (Josh Gad), Anna can pull it off!

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Sketched Game: Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus

Get out your wrenches and inter-dimensional devices, we're reviewing Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus!

Galactic heroes Ratchet and Clank are escorting a dangerous prisoner, Vendra Prog, to space prison, when her gigantic ape of a twin brother, Neftin, comes to bust her out. When she threatens to open a portal to another dimension called "The Netherverse", it's up to Ratchet and Clank once again to save the universe from destruction!

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Thor: The Dark World

Get out your lightning-hammers and space canoes, we're reviewing Thor: The Dark World!

When Malekith (Chistopher Eccelston), leader of the Dark Elves, returns and wants to destroy the universe with the help of a weapon called the Aether, it's up to Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) to stop him! Can they “Turn Off the Dark” with the power of hammers and science?

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Ender's Game

Get out your laser pistols and futuristic tablet games, we're reviewing Ender's Game!

In the future, after a battle with an alien race that's killed tens of millions, the International Military is training children to become the next soldiers and commanders. Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) believes Ender (Asa Butterfield) might be the soldier who can finally put an end to the alien threat.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Sketched List: 13 Horror Comedies for Halloween

Halloween is tomorrow! No doubt, a lot of people will be going trick-or-treating, or to a spoooooky party! Or maybe they'll relax at home with some scary movies. But what if you're just looking to chill and have some laughs, but still stay in the spirit? Here are 13 fantastic classic and/or little-known horror-comedies for your Halloween night!

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Machete Kills

Get out your machetes, because we're reviewing Machete Kills!

In the near future, when insane Cartel-leader-turned-revolutionary Mendez (Demian Bichir) threatens to blow up the US, the President (Charlie Sheen) calls on the only man tough enough to stop him, Machete (Danny Trejo). Can Machete stop nuclear Armageddon?

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Gravity

Get out your space suits and jet-packs, we're reviewing Gravity!

When a mission goes horribly wrong, medical engineer Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) must find a way back to Earth on their own.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Don Jon

Get out your porn and romantic comedies, we're watching Don Jon!
Tried a little something different and added water color for the shading.
Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) only cares about a few things in life: his body, his apartment, his car, his family, his religion, his boys, his girls, and his porn. When he meets the most beautiful woman he's ever seen, Barbara (Scarlet Johansson), and she wants him to give up his porn, he'll have to make a tough decision.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Sketched TV: Sleepy Hollow

Get out your axes and machine guns, we're reviewing Sleepy Hollow!

Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) fights in the American Revolutionary War under General Washington and gets mortally wounded after beheading the Hessian. He suddenly wakes up in modern times, as does the Headless Horseman. Now he must work with Lt. Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie) to find and stop the Headless Horseman and investigate all the strange things happening in the small town of Sleepy Hollow. 

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Boy Wonder

Get out your masks and handguns, we're reviewing Boy Wonder!

Sean Donovan (Caleb Steinmeyer) witnessed his mother’s murder when he was a young boy. He trained physically and mentally until he could go out and right the wrongs in his life. But is he a hero, or just crazy?

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

The Family

Get out your tennis rackets and explosives, we're reviewing The Family!

The Manzoni family, including father Giovanni (Robert De Niro), mother Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer), daughter Belle (Dianna Agron), and son Warren (John D'Leo), is in the witness protection program and relocating to Normandy, France. Can they integrate into their new lives without letting old habits and old enemies creep back in?

Thursday, September 12, 2013

We're the Millers

Get out your stacks of Marijuana and RVs, we're reviewing We're the Millers!

When David (Jason Sudeikis) is forced to smuggle a ton of weed from Mexico into the United States, he gets the great idea of posing as a family with his neighbor Rose (Jennifer Aniston), who's a stripper, his other neighbor Kenny (Will Poulter), and a homeless thief, Casey (Emma Roberts). Can they pull off looking like a family long enough to finish the job?

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Riddick

Get out your protective goggles and bone-blades, we're reviewing Riddick!
When Riddick (Vin Diesel) goes looking for his home planet and gets marooned on another, completely different planet, he must find a way to survive and get off the hostile world. And then two groups of bounty hunters show up and everyone pretends they're back in Pitch Black. Some spoilers below.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Sketched TV: TV shows TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD YOU MONSTER

Shows Too Good for the World – You Monsters!

So hey, I just finished Terriers on Netflix and after adding it to my list of shows TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD YOU MONSTERS I got to thinking about some of the other shows that are REASONS WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS – WHY BATMAN, WHHHHYYYY!? So here's a couple of shows canceled too soon (that aren't Firefly I promise) that you might have missed because they're TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Murder by Contract

Get out your rifles and golf balls, we're reviewing Murder by Contract!

Claude (Vincent Edwards) is law-abiding citizen: a law-abiding citizen that happens to be a perfect contract killer. But when he takes a job to kill Billie Williams (Caprice Toriel), it all starts going south.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Sketched TV: Orange is the New Black

Get out your screwdrivers and chickens, we're reviewing Orange is the New Black!

Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) committed a crime while dating her drug kingpin girlfriend Alex (Laura Prepon) and now Piper has to go to prison. She quickly finds out it's nothing like she'd thought it would be.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The World's End

Get out your pints and detachable limbs, we're reviewing The World's End!

Gary King (Simon Pegg) is feeling nostalgic for his happier and fun-filled past when he and his mates tried to complete the golden mile, so Gary gets his old gang back together, including Andy (Nick Frost) and Steven (Paddy Considine). But when they return to their home town, they find that not everything is quite the same as they remember.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Dead Man Down

Get out your guns and cut-up pictures, we're reviewing Dead Man Down!

Beatrice (Noomi Rapace) blackmails Victor (Colin Farrell) into killing a man who hurt her, but Victor is a bad man in a bad organization run by Alphonse (Terrence Howard) and Victor's got revenge plans of his own. Will Victor help Beatrice?

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Kick-Ass 2

Get out your masks and baseball bats, we're reviewing Kick-Ass 2!
Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) was through being the superhero Kick-Ass, but he gets back into the game out of boredom. Mindy (Chloë Grace Moretz) loves being Hit-Girl, but her new adoptive father, Marcus (Morris Chestnut) wants her to have a normal life. With Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) resurfacing as the world's first supervillain, can Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl get enough hero friends to bring him down?

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Elysium

Get out your robots and cyber exosleketons, we're reviewing Elysium!

It's the future, and all the rich white people live on Elysium while all the poor brown people live on Earth. When reformed car thief Max(Matt Damon) gets an extra dose of radiation, he'll have to take a dirty job to buy a ticket to get himself to Elysium to get a cure!

Friday, August 9, 2013

Wonder Woman

Get out your Lasso of Truth and Invisible Plane, we're reviewing Wonder Woman, the animated movie!

After Ares (Alfred Molina) nearly enslaves all Amazons, Queen Hippolyta (Virginia Madsen) captures Ares and takes her prisoner and the Amazons to the secret island of Themyscira. Years later, pilot Steve Trevor (Nathan Fillion) crash lands on the island, and Hippolyta's daughter, Diana (Keri Russell), volunteers to take him back to the world of man. But when Ares escapes, her mission suddenly becomes more dangerous.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

2 Guns

Get out your gun and other gun, we're reviewing 2 Guns!

Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby B. (Denzel Washington) both think they're crooks robbing money from drug kingpin Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos). But, in fact, Stigman is undercover Naval Intelligence and Bobby B is undercover DEA, and they happen to be stealing money from the CIA. Can they work together and uncover who set them up?

Friday, August 2, 2013

Red 2

Get out your guns and bombs, we're reviewing Red 2!

Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) are trying to make their relationship work in their new life, when a hit is put out on Frank for something he never did. Now he must travel the world with Mavin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) to clear their names and find the real culprit!

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Wolverine

Get out your adamantium claws and giant samurai swords, we're reviewing The Wolverine!
I drew Wolverine as a detective for reasons
When an old comrade summons Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to Japan to say goodbye, Wolverine finds himself in the middle of an assassination plot on the man's granddaughter, Mariko (Tao Okamoto). Also, he finds he can't heal, for reasons. With the help of sword-wielding Yukio, can he rescue Mariko?

Friday, July 26, 2013

Lego Star Wars specials

Get out your bricks and lightsabers, we're reviewing the Lego Star Wars specials The Empire Strikes Out and The Padawan Menace!

These are two half-hour specials within the Star Wars universe using mini figs and Legos to kidsy and comical ends. The Empire Strikes Out bridges the gap between Episodes 4 and 5 and The Padawan Menace takes place between Episodes 2 and 3.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

RIPD

Get out your otherworldly weaponry and fake IDs, we're reviewing R.I.P.D.!
What? White paper? Where did that come from?
When Nick (Ryan Reynolds), a not-so-clean cop, is killed in a bust gone wrong, he's recruited to work in the RIPD, the Rest in Peace Department. With his new partner Roy (Jeff Bridges), a wild-west gunslinger, they have to stop an evil plan from the Deados staying on Earth forever!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Despicable Me 2

Get out your fart cannons and lipstick Tasers, we're reviewing Despicable Me!

Gru (Steve Carell) is settling down with the girls, but when a new mysterious villain arrives on the scene, the Anti-Villain League contracts him to find out who it is and what their evil scheme could be. Can Gru, with his new partner, Lucy (Kristen Wig), thwart evil before it is too late?

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Pacific Rim

Get out your giant robots and giant monsters, we're reviewing Pacific Rim!

An inter-dimensional rift has opened at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and giant monsters called Kaiju have emerged to wreak havoc on humanity! The only thing standing between humanity and extinction is the Jaeger program: people from around the world that pilot giant robots. But now the Jaeger program is being shut down! Can what's left of the Jaegers make one last stand against the gargantuan beasts?

Friday, July 12, 2013

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Get out your typewriters and fishnet stockings, we're reviewing The Perks of Being a Wallflower!

Charlie (Logan Lerman) starts high school as a freshman after overcoming some trauma, and tries his best to make friends while not standing out or getting eaten by his classmates. He soon finds some friends in Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson). Can they drag him out of his shell?

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Sketched TV: In The Flesh

Get out your fake contacts and cover-up, we're reviewing In The Flesh!

There's been a zombie uprising (called "the rising"), but they've found a cure… sort of… and everything's starting to calm down. As they're releasing the survivors of "Partially Deceased Syndrome" (PDS), Kieren (Luke Newberry), a PDS survivor, has trouble fitting in and adjusting to his new re-life, especially in a community that fears and mistrusts his kind. Will they accept him?

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

The Heat

Get out your half-eaten subs and spanx, we're reviewing The Heat!

Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is an uptight FBI agent looking to get a promotion, but no one likes working with her. When she's on the trail of a new drug kingpin, she has to work with a local Boston detective, Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a loud tough cop that everyone's afraid of. Can they put their differences aside and work together?

Friday, June 28, 2013

Monsters University

Get out your scream canisters and fraternity jackets, we're reviewing Monsters University!

Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) has wanted to be a Scarer his whole life. When he finally gets to his college of choice, Monsters University, he butts heads with legacy Scarer, James Sullivan (John Goodman). After some college shenanigans, they find the only way they can both become Scarers is if they work together. 

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

World War Z

Get out your shotguns and magazines we're reviewing World War Z NO, NOPE, CAN'T DO IT, CANNOT, WILL NOT SAY IT – ahem… we're reviewing That Brad Pitt Zombie Movie!

It's the zombie apocalypse and once Gerry (Brad Pitt) gets his family to safety, it's up to him to globe-trot to find a cure, or something!

Friday, June 21, 2013

This is the End

Get out your baseball bats and Milky Ways, we're reviewing This is the End!

When Jay Baruchel (Jay Baruchel) comes to visit Seth Rogen (Seth Rogen) in L.A., they attend a party at James Franco (James Franco)'s house, despite Jay's reluctance. But when Hell breaks loose (literally), he, Seth, and a group of others will have to band together to survive the apocalypse. 

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Man of Steel

Get out your capes and red underpants, we're reviewing Man of Steel!

When Krypton is dying, Jor El(Russell Crow) decides to send his son to Earth. Kal-El, or Clark(Henry Cavill) as he's now called, grows up in Smallville, Kansas, finds out he's an alien, and wanders around the world trying to figure out who he is. With Lois Lane(Amy Adams) tracking him down and General Zod(Michael Shannon) on his way to Earth, can Clark find his way to being a hero?

Friday, June 14, 2013

Sketched Games: Bioshock Infinite

Get out your skyhooks and Plasmids Vigors because we're reviewing Bioshock Infinite!

In order to clear his debt, Booker DeWitt has to go to the flying city of Columbia, retrieve a girl, Elizabeth, and bring her to New York. He soon discovers that there's something sinister hiding underneath the floating city of Columbia.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The Dark Knight Returns Parts 1 & 2

Get out your bat-a-rangs and tanks, we're reviewing parts 1 and 2 of The Dark Knight Returns!

It's the ‘80's. Batman has long since retired and is in his 60's. But when a new breed of "mutant" criminal threatens Gotham, Batman must come out of retirement one last time. This is an animation based on the graphic novel by Frank Millar.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Now You See Me

Get out your playing cards and magic scarves, we're watching Now You See Me!

Four street magicians, calling themselves "The Four Horsemen" rob a bank as a magic trick, but no one can figure out how they did it. FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and professional magic debunker Thadeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) chase them around the world trying to stop them.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

After Earth

Get out your change-o-sticks and liquid-air capsules, we're watching After Earth!
"Everything on Earth has evolved to kill you.
To combat that, your suit has evolved to do jack shit."
It's the far-flung future, 1000 years after humanity has left Earth. Cypher Raige (Will Smith) and his son, Kitai (Jaden Smith), crash-land on Earth, and when Cypher is injured, it's up to Kitai to go out and retrieve a homing beacon from the tail end of the ship. Is he fearless enough to do the job?

Friday, May 31, 2013

The Hangover Part III

Get out your drugs and bars of gold, we're reviewing The Hangover Part III!
For less than pennies a day, you can sponsor this smelly hobo that looks like a mall Santa.
When Alan (Zach Galifianakis) gets in trouble for the last time, everyone decides it would be best if he get some help, so the wolf pack drives him to a facility in Arizona. But on the way there, they get pushed off the road by Marshall (John Goodman), who's looking for Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong). Marshall kidnaps Doug, and if the wolf pack don't get Chow, Marshall will kill him!

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Sketched TV: Avengers Assemble

Get out your hammers and shields, we're reviewing the pilot for Avengers Assemble!
Somehow they made MODOK less MODOK in AA. Also he's bald
now? Because we don't have enough bald villains?
The Avengers have broken up, but when something happens to Captain America, Tony Stark brings them together to avenge him. Can they still work together?

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Furious 6

Get out your fast cars and faster cars, we're reviewing Furious 6!
Is it just me or is Vin Diesel finally starting to look old? How long before he's too old for this shit?
An expert team of thieves starts stealing high-value parts with cars. Agent Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) calls on a past team of criminals to help, including Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker). The only reason Dom agrees is that Hobbs has pictures of Dom's supposedly dead girlfriend, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), working for the bad guys!

Friday, May 24, 2013

Harry Brown

Get out your guns and inhalers, we're reviewing Harry Brown!
Whoops I kinda made Michael Caine look like a Dracula
Harry Brown (Michael Caine) is a retired serviceman who has put a bloody past behind him. But when a close friend is murdered by a bunch of hoodlums, Harry has to drag out his old skills to seek revenge.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Star Trek into Darkness


Get out your phasers and tribbles, we're reviewing Star Trek Into Darkness!
What's weirder, Chris Pine's eyebrows or Chris Pines lips?
When a madman named John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch) starts blowing up Starfleet buildings, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), "a loose cannon" who "breaks all the rules," is the only man in the Starfleet qualified to go after him. But he and his crew soon discover all is not what it seems.

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Great Gatsby


Get out your flapper dresses and fancy hats, we're reviewing The Great Gatsby, old sport!
I want this to be a meme YESTERDAY.
Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) recalls his time in West Egg, New York, where he met an extravagant man known as Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and learned Gatsby’s story to win back the lost love of his life.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Sketched TV: Survivor Tribute

I did some sketches of people I like on Survivor so I thought I'd do a short tribute to Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites. Some spoilers to anyone who hasn't seen the finale or the last couple of episodes. Oh note, these are sketches of people's faces I like. I was surprised at the number of interesting faces in this season of Survivor!  I'm trying more painterly styles of shading in photoshop. Tell me how successful it is.
Anyone else think Andrea kind of looks like a cat? I think it's the huge eyes and the nose. On to spoilers!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Mud


Get out your bonfires and your motorboats, we're reviewing Mud!
This kid deserves a child Oscar for having that thousand-yard stare and EFF YOU attitude.
When two young kids, Ellis and Neckbone(Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland) travel to a just-off-coast island and discover a boat stuck in a tree, they want to make it their new hiding spot, but they find a man already living there. His name is Mud(Matthew McConaughey), and he's on the run from some dangerous people while waiting for his girlfriend. Will Ellis and Neckbone help him?

Friday, May 10, 2013

Iron Man 3

Get out your suits of armor, we're reviewing Iron Man 3!
Tried something different, painted it in photoshop. Thoughts?
Tony Stark(Robert Downey Jr.) is having trouble adjusting to regular life after the events of New York. When a new criminal terrorist known as the Mandarin(Sir Ben Kingsley) comes on the scene, can Tony get over his anxiety, save his loved ones and the country?