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Interview: Michael Pitt & Mike Cahill
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Vinyl “Pilot” Review: Drop the Needle, Crank up the Volume
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Best of 2010: TV
Despite what your grandma might say to try and trick you into watching reruns of Perry Mason, the true ‘Golden Age’ of television is right now and 2010 was an especially good year. Returning favourites...
View ArticleBoardwalk Empire Interview – Michael K Williams
The eagerly anticipated second season of Boardwalk Empire premieres this Sunday on HBO Canada, and its legion of fans are anxious for the return of the violent Prohibition -era drama. The Shelf has had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boardwalk Empire Episode 2.1 Review
Boardwalk Empire – the star-studded prohibition era drama from HBO – returned to our television screens with a bang this past weekend. The show seems to have found its footing right out of the gate,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boardwalk Empire Episode 2.2 Review
The fourteenth episode of Boardwalk Empire is a busy one, centered around the growing conspiracy against Nucky and his imminent rally; a rally that is sure to be buttressed by his live-in girlfriend...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boardwalk Empire Episode 2.3 Review
With the exception of Nucky’s confrontation with the Commodore and Jimmy in the restaurant, the third episode of Boardwalk Empire‘s second season is the least eventful of the episodes we’ve been...
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Boardwalk Empire Episode 2.4 Review
What a crazy episode. The tide has clearly turned in Nucky’s favour in Atlantic City: his lawyer has an ingenious plan, Owen Slater is good at blowing things up, Chalky is out of jail, and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boardwalk Empire Episode 2.5 Review
This week’s instalment of Boardwalk Empire brought us a heaping portion of the old ultra-violence that we so cherish. It’s Veteran’s Day in Atlantic City, a city “built to help people forget” says...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview: Michael Pitt & Mike Cahill
This Friday will see the release of I Origins, the second film from writer/director Mike Cahill (Another Earth). The film stars Michael Pitt as Ian Gray, a molecular biologist who believes that the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vinyl “Pilot” Review: Drop the Needle, Crank up the Volume
“So, this is my story, clouded by lost brain cells, self aggrandizement and maybe a little bullshit, but how could it not be in this fucking life?” With these words Bobby Cannavale, as self-proclaimed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tuned In Episode 3 – Violent Actions
After the obligatory deconstruction of Sunday night’s disaster at the Oscars Dork Shelf’s TV critics Susan Stover and Peter Counter talk about action and violence in television. From the psychological...
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