Blogcritics Author: Blake Matthews

DVD Review: Teen Titans - The Complete Fifth Season

Blake Matthews — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:35:00 EDT

Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season is fun for fans young and old.
From 2003 to 2006 Cartoon Network aired five seasons of Teen Titans. The show's look was heavily influenced by anime and was a bit jarring for some of its viewers, myself included. Once you got over that shock, what you got was a unique take on the comic which fans of all ages could enjoy and put their own spin on some of the storylines from...

Product Review: Heroes Trading Cards

Blake Matthews — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:16:16 EDT

Heroes Trading Cards recap the first season of the hit show and put some cool chase cards in your hands too
Growing up I collected cards, be it baseball, cards based on movies like Star Wars, cards from Marvel and DC comics and more. I had thousands of cards and spent hundreds of dollars over the years. As I got older and my passion for collecting cards waned I stopped that particular portion of collecting. Topps has put out a card set based on the...

Comic Review: Star Wars Omnibus: Droids

Blake Matthews — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:40:32 EDT

Star Wars Omnibus: Droids collects all the adventures of our favorite robotic duo!
Continuing Dark Horse’s line of reprinting out-of-print stories with affordable pricing, Star Wars Omnibus: Droids reprints the tales of our two favorite Droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, in the time between Revenge of The Sith and A New Hope. Back in the mid-1990’s, when Dark Horse had recently acquired the Star Wars license, they put out a...

DVD Review: Definitely, Maybe

Blake Matthews — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:04:03 EDT

Definitely, Maybe is part romance, part comedy with a dash of mystery thrown in for good measure.
Definitely, Maybe stars Ryan Reynolds as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad who is in the middle of a divorce. His daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) starts questioning him about his life before he got married because she’s just had her first sex ed class. Being a typical 10-year-old she wants to everything about how her parents met and...

DVD Review: The Spiderwick Chronicles 2-Disc Field Guide Edition

Blake Matthews — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:16:34 EDT

The Spiderwick Chronicles is a great film that the entire family can enjoy.
Based on the novels by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a film adaptation of this series.The Grace family is going through a divorce, and is moving into a new home for a fresh start. No one is happy about the move, no one more so than Jared who, along with his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory, and mom, has arrived at...

DVD Review: Charlie Bartlett

Blake Matthews — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:16:12 EDT

Charlie Bartlett is the story of one boy's struggle to find himself and become popular in the process.
Charlie Bartlett is the story of a troubled youth who has been kicked out of almost every private school, most recently for selling fake IDs to the student body. Since Charlie (Anton Yelchin) has burned through his private school options, his mother (Hope Davis) has no recourse than to bring him home and enroll him in public school. Charlie wants...

DVD Review: Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs

Blake Matthews — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:22:21 EDT

Futurama is back with the second of four direct-to-DVD movies.
Futurama was an animated FOX comedy about the misadventures of Philip Fry and company. On New Year’s Eve 1999, Fry delivered a pizza to a cryogenic lab; finding that the order was a prank, he accidentally falls into an open cryo-chamber and is frozen for 1000 years. When he wakes up the world is a much different place. As he gets his...

DVD Review: P.S. I Love You

Blake Matthews — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:24:09 EDT

P.S. I Love You handles the clichéd theme of getting over the death of a loved one in a unique way.
P.S. I Love You is a movie based on the novel of the same name by Cecelia Ahern. The film deals with Holly and Gerry Kennedy, a happily married couple living in Manhattan. It starts with a fight, but you can see that these two are clearly in love and think the world of each other. That makes it all the more tragic when Gerry dies of a brain...

DVD Review: The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season

Blake Matthews — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:50:09 EDT

The Boondocks is back for a second season of no holds barred, tell it like it is, animated satire of African-American culture
The Boondocks was started by Aaron McGruder in the University of Maryland’s student newspaper, it would later run in The Source magazine and eventually became a syndicated comic strip in 1999 and was also being pitched as an animated television series.The Boondocks premiered on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim in fall 2005 and was very successful...

DVD Review: Semi-Pro

Blake Matthews — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:05:09 EDT

Ferrell's playing the same character we've seen in his last few movies; he needs to come up with something new.
I’ve been a fan of Will Ferrell since his Saturday Night Live days and loved him in Elf, Anchorman, and Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back just to name a few of his hilarious movies. This time out we have The Semi-Pro where he plays Jackie Moon, a 70's one-hit singing wonder who used his money to become owner, coach, and starting power...