Blogcritics Author: Sombrero Grande

DVD Review: The Big Bang Theory - The Complete First Season

Sombrero Grande — Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:33:01 EDT

Have you ever watched a sitcom and wished you could follow the wacky neighbor character back home instead?
Have you ever watched a sitcom and wished the camera would follow the wacky neighbor back home so you could watch their life unfolding comically instead of that of the more "normal" main characters? The Big Bang Theory finally allows you and I to do just that.The Big Bang Theory centers on the lives of two young physics geniuses and...

DVD Review: The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Beginning

Sombrero Grande — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:31:34 EDT

Entertaining for those now-grown-up fans and their own little girls.
Written by Muchacha Motorista What little girl in 1989 didn’t love The Little Mermaid? And what Disney fan wasn’t glad to see the animation studio once again create a classic, after years of such ho-hummers as The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, and Oliver & Company? The latest direct-to-DVD feature installment, The...

PC game review: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner

Sombrero Grande — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:39:52 EDT

Minor bugs aside, this is a game worth checking out for any Homestar Runner or Strong Bad fan.
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is my first foray into "episodic" video games, but not into the world of Strong Bad and Homestar Runner. I've been a longtime fan of the HomestarRunner.com website, regularly following the semi-weekly cartoon installments of the whole gang from Free Country, USA. If you've never been to...

DVD Review: Freakazoid! Season 1

Sombrero Grande — Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:27:20 EDT

From the creators of Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs comes their most uneven animated series: Freakazoid!
Only if you were a fan of the Freakazoid! animated series back when it aired on TV in the mid-'90s would I recommend a purchase of Freakazoid! Season 1 on DVD. And even then, you might want to rent it first just to witness the overarching uneveness you probably don't remember it possessing. Newcomers to the sometimes-amusing wackiness of...

DVD Review: Superhero Movie - Extended Edition

Sombrero Grande — Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:17:20 EDT

I expect nothing but trash from the other "Movie" parody filmmakers, but I expected better from Mr. Zucker than this.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Remember back when parody films actually possessed the possibility of being good? Back in the days of Airplane! and The Naked Gun!, moviegoers could rely on a silly, goofy laugh-fest that took the conventions of different movies and genres and effectively skewered them. Nowadays, ever since the popularity of the...

Music Review: Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be

Sombrero Grande — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:55:34 EDT

I�m going to tell you right off the bat: I love Emmylou Harris� new album.
Written by Muchacha Motorista I’m going to tell you right off the bat: I love Emmylou Harris’ new album, All I Intended To Be. Complete with original material as well as covers, it is an essential listen for fans of old country music and folk. It is mournful, soulful. Not something you want to have playing at your kid’s birthday...

DVD Review: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Special Edition)

Sombrero Grande — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:12:31 EDT

Last Crusade plays the broadest of all the Indiana Jones movies to date, played deliberately for laughs and cheers
In anticipation of the May 22nd release of the fourth Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, all three "original trilogy" movies are being rereleased on DVD, sold both as a set and individually for the first time. I'm here today to talk for a bit about my favorite installment in the trilogy: Indiana...

Comedy CD Review: Bushspeak Volume 2 - Fore More Years

Sombrero Grande — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:22:14 EDT

Let me begin by stating that this is simply a review of a CD entitled "Bushspeak Volume 2: Fore More Years."
Let me begin by stating that this is simply a review of a CD entitled Bushspeak Volume 2: Fore More Years. If you want a review of George W. Bush as a U.S. President or even as a human being I'm sure there will be a bevy of opinions posted below from the Blogcritics' peanut gallery (that is, if the still-ongoing discussions in the comment...

DVD Review: The Mystery of Eva Peron

Sombrero Grande — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:51:05 EDT

Don�t cry for me... and don't watch this documentary either.
Written by Muchacha MotoristaThe last two documentaries I’d seen prior to The Mystery of Eva Peron were on John Steinbeck and Eleanor Roosevelt, so it isn’t like I require my documentaries to be MTV-style, flashy and current. I went into The Mystery of Eva Peron from what I consider to be a fair angle: I liked Andrew Lloyd...

DVD Review: Walt Disney Treasures - Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic

Sombrero Grande — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:16:47 EST

This is a fascinating companion DVD set to the initial Walt Disney Treasures release, "Disneyland U.S.A."
Disneyland U.S.A. was one of the initial releases of the Walt Disney Treasures DVD series back in 2001. The two-disc set contained "special historical broadcasts," such as "The Disneyland Story," the first episode of Walt Disney's Disneyland TV show that introduced the idea of the park to the public in 1954; "Dateline...