Anime Review: Samurai Champloo
When you hear crisp beats and see beautiful scenery just be careful you don’t bump into the wrong guy or he’ll cut your head off. That’s what Shinichiro Watanabe envisioned Edo Japan would be like in...
View ArticleDVD Review: Metalocalypse Season III: The Dead Man
Metaloclypse: Season Three was released on November 9th on Blu-ray and DVD. This is the first time that Dethklok, the world’s biggest animated heavy metal band, is featured on high-definition DVD. The...
View ArticleDVD Review: Archer: The Complete Season One
I will be the first to admit that when I heard about Archer returning for a second season January 27th on FX, I had yet to even see a single episode of the first one. However, I was lucky enough to get...
View ArticleTV Review: Childrens Hospital –“Children’s Hospital: A Play in Three Acts”
On this week’s Childrens Hospital, the regular story is abandoned in favor of an old-style play, evoking Thornton Wilder or Tennessee Williams. While the episode title is “Children’s Hospital: A Play...
View ArticleChatterbox: Let’s Talk TV is on the Air Talking about Animated Sitcoms!
Please join us at 7:00 p.m. ET for tonight’s edition of Chatterbox: Let’s Talk TV live on Blogcritics. Your hosts are Co-Executive Editor Barbara Barnett and Blogcritics TV Writer JeromeWetzelTV...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: Archer – Season Two
Archer is an animated series on the FX Network that revolves around Sterling Archer – the world’s sexiest and perhaps most oblivious spy – and his team at the spy agency ISIS. Voice talent includes H....
View ArticleDVD Review: Childrens Hospital The Complete Third Season
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim isn’t just for animated shows anymore. One of their best live action shows is Childrens Hospital. Originally a webseries doctored to deliver episodes running around 10...
View ArticleDVD Review: Children’s Hospital – Season 3
Part of the charm of Adult Swim micro-series Children’s Hospital is the sheer amount of weirdness and non sequitur Rob Corddry and company can pack into a mere 12 minutes or so. Still, throughout...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: ‘The Venture Bros. – The Fifth Season’
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim produces a number of animated series for adults. One of my all-time favorites of these is The Venture Bros., a take-off of Jonny Quest all grown up, which recently released...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: The Venture Bros. – 3rd Season
As the impending idiocracy approaches, it becomes harder to differentiate between those who have already succumbed, and those who hasten its arrival because it’s an easy way to make a buck and gain a...
View ArticleDVD Review: Superjail! – Season One
Superjail! may be the single weirdest cartoon I have ever seen. The ten-episode first season originally ran on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim during the 2008 season. Superjail! – Season One has just been...
View ArticleDVD Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume 7
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the strangest shows to grace the alternate television universe know as Adult Swim. ATHF started out as a short addendum to the legendary Space Ghost Coast To Coast, but...
View ArticleDVD Review: Squidbillies Volume 3
Of all the bizarre premises on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, Squidbillies may be the most twisted yet. It concerns the Culyer family, a family of squids left behind when the pre-historic oceans receded...
View ArticleComic-Con International 2010: Days of Lines and Heroes
Day 0 Preview Night is an appetizer before the four-day meal to those hungry and willing to take part. Ballroom 20 offered the world premiere of the television series Nikita. The gaming rooms were...
View ArticleDVD Review: Titan Maximum Season 1
Titan Maximum is another twisted animated series on Cartoon Network’s great Adult Swim block of programming. In contrast to fare such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Superjail however, Titan Maximum...
View ArticleTV Review: Childrens Hospital –“Children’s Hospital: A Play in Three Acts”
On this week’s Childrens Hospital, the regular story is abandoned in favor of an old-style play, evoking Thornton Wilder or Tennessee Williams. While the episode title is “Children’s Hospital: A Play...
View ArticleChatterbox: Let’s Talk TV is on the Air Talking about Animated Sitcoms!
Please join us at 7:00 p.m. ET for tonight’s edition of Chatterbox: Let’s Talk TV live on Blogcritics. Your hosts are Co-Executive Editor Barbara Barnett and Blogcritics TV Writer JeromeWetzelTV...
View ArticleDVD Review: Childrens Hospital The Complete Third Season
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim isn’t just for animated shows anymore. One of their best live action shows is Childrens Hospital. Originally a webseries doctored to deliver episodes running around 10...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: The Venture Bros. – 3rd Season
As the impending idiocracy approaches, it becomes harder to differentiate between those who have already succumbed, and those who hasten its arrival because it’s an easy way to make a buck and gain a...
View ArticleDVD Review: Superjail! – Season One
Superjail! may be the single weirdest cartoon I have ever seen. The ten-episode first season originally ran on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim during the 2008 season. Superjail! – Season One has just been...
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