Dark City

Get out your rope and poker chips, we're reviewing Dark City!

No, not that one. Not the one with Keifer Sutherland as the mad scientist. NO, JUST-

Danny (Charlton Heston) and his gang are hard up on cash when they find an obvious mark and clean him out in a poker match. But then the gang finds out that the mark killed himself over the dishonor of losing someone else's money, and his brother ain't too happy. Suddenly, members of their group start turning up dead. Can they stop the killer before their luck runs out?

Sketched Comic: SEX: The Summer of Hard

Get out your strap-ons and domino masks, we're reviewing SEX: The Summer of Hard by Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski.

Simon Cooke returns to Saturn City after giving up being a superhero. Now he has to work to have a normal life, but can he even figure out what that is?

Vampire Academy

Get out your silver stakes and secret blood connections, we're reviewing Vampire Academy!

Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) is a guardian to the vampire princess, Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry) and together they attend an academy where Lissa can master her magic powers and Rose can become a better guardian. After an accident and year long absence, Rose and Lissa are brought back to the academy with a strange new psychic connection. But someone or something wants them out! Can Rose figure out who or what it is, while protecting Lissa?

Noir Week Day 4: The Unsuspected!

Get out your radio voices and wine glasses, we're reviewing The Unsuspected!

A secretary, Matilda (Joan Caulfield) is murdered, but the murderer makes it look like an accident. Jane (Constance Bennett) is presumed dead at sea, but miraculously comes back to find she has a husband, Steven Howard (Ted North), who she doesn't remember marrying. She's living with her sister and their friend, a famous radio announcer for crime stories, Victor Grandison (Claude Rains). Can any of them find out who is… the unsuspected?

The Monuments Men

Get out your rations and art tools, we're reviewing The Monuments Men!

In WWII, to keep the enemy and our side from bombing famous monuments, Frank Stokes (George Clooney) puts together a squad of artists, architects and art dealers to protect historic monuments and recover stolen art. 

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

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?

Carnage

Get out your coffee table books and apple cobbler, we're reviewing Carnage!

When Nancy(Kate Winslet) and Alan(Christopher Waltz) Cowan's son hits Penelope(Jodie Foster) and Michael(John C. Reilly) Longstreet's son, both groups of parents agree to meet and cordially discuss their sons' altercation. The evening starts out courteous but gets progressively more agressive as tempers flair.

10 reasons why you should start follow The Following

There have been a handful of episodes of The Following already, so instead of doing a full review, I'm going to give you ten very good reasons why you should catch up and start following The Following!

Kevin Bacon plays a pretty good Kevin Bacon.

Side Effects

Get out your Zoloft and Prilosec, we're reviewing Side Effects!

Emily Taylor(Rooney Mara) is having trouble with her life after her husband, Martin(Channing Tatum), gets out of prison.  Her new doctor, Dr. Banks(Jude Law) proscribes a new drug on the market, Ablixa, that starts showing some weird side effects...

Bound

Get out your guns and dirty money, we're reviewing Bound!

Corky(Gina Gershon) is an ex con trying to get back on the straight and narrow. Violet(Jennifer Tilly) is the girlfriend to a mobster(Joe Pantoliano as Caesar).  They're lovers and they want to escape. Can Corky trust Violet to run away with her? Can Violet trust Corky not to leave her?

Cloud Atlas

Get out your multiple experiences that permeate both time and space that link all of us together causing us to realize that all of existence is happening simultaneously and infinitely...we're reviewing Cloud Atlas!

Cloud Atlas tells 6 stories simultaneously interconnected through time and space.

Argo

Get out your fake storyboards and spy phones, we're reviewing Argo!

Lookit those eyes! Isn't Affleck saying, "c'mon America, give me another chance!"?

In the 1980's when enraged Iranians storm America's embassy and take hostages, 6 Americans sneak out and hide in the Canadian Ambassador's house. The best way the CIA can think to get them out is to  make a fake sci-fi movie and sneak them all out. Can they pull it off?

My Thoughts on The Dark Knight Rises

I tried dry brush this time.

I think The Dark Knight Rises is a big enough movie that most people have already seen it, or are planning to see it, or have made up their mind whether or not to see it.  If you haven't, It's pretty great.   It's fun, enjoyable, exciting, thrilling, had great acting and action and was a better ending to the series than I was expecting.  But saying all that, it still has some problems and it doesn't feel as whole and complete as The Dark Knight which, to me, is perfect. And really trying to live up to that is tough, and this is still a great film, but yeah, not as great as the previous two.  Still fun, still great, but not amazing. $$$$$

Anyways, I thought I'd take the rest of the time instead to just talk about some things I really liked and others I didn't.  Spoilers from here on out.

Review: Savages

Get out your guns and weed, we're reviewing Savages!

I've been trying more ink and dry brush lately!

Ben(Aaron Johnson) and Chon(Taylor Kitsch) are the two of the best pot growers in the world. Elena(Salma Hayek), who runs the mexican drug cartel, wants in on their business. When Ben and Chon refuse, she kidnaps their mutual girlfriend, O(Blake Lively). What are Ben and Chon willing to do to get her back?  Spoilers follow.