Empty Bookshelf Reviews

Category: Hype

  • The Current Gas Prices

    Lest The Bookshelf® return to its former rant-happy ways, here’s one with some general positivity. What with gas prices getting higher than friend of The Bookshelf® and noted ginger ale enthusiast J Calloway at a ginger ale festival, it looks like we’re back to more reasonable numbers on the boards. The $2.399 low price in […]

  • The Unfair Critical Treatment of Former Boy Band Members

    Let’s see if I can get out some reviews for once… I’m not being profound when I say that success is a great way to turn the less successful against you. In the burgeoning field of critical criticism, this fact is no more obvious than with music critics. Movie critics are relatively high profile (notably […]

  • Rockstar: Season 2

    This one may balloon to huge proportions again like the season 2 LOST review. That being said, I’m officially starting it on Friday August 18th… we’ll see how long it takes to finish. One of the contestants on the show is named “Storm Large”. The one night after she performed, Tommy Lee said “I’d like […]

  • The Ubiquitousness of Nic Cage

    I honestly think I’d rather see LUKE Cage than Nic Cage right now. Right now Nicolas Cage is everywhere. It’s hard to turn on the TV and not see his long, thin mug. At the moment, he’s got two movies out… The Ant Bully, and World Trade Center, in which he adds a creepy moustache […]

  • Empty Bookshelf’s First 100 Reviews

    Oh, those kids. Always at it. You guys really shouldn’t’ve. So here we are at the first of what may be a few reviews of our first milestone, 100 reviews. Not only is this the first review of this milestone, but of what could be very many milestones. We here at the Bookshelf like the […]

  • The Critical To-Do over Lady in the Water

    The cast of the movie Miami Vice hard at work If you keep tabs on the movie world, you’re probably aware that right now, two sort of big deal stories are going on between critics and directors. The first one involves Joel Siegel making a big to-do and walking out on a screening of Clerks […]

  • Navel Gazing Part 1: A History of Violence

    Once again, the generous sponsorship of the Fruit Stand/DVD store made this review possible. Be sure to stop by and enjoy a 50% discount if you’re not American! I’ve said I don’t enjoy writing movie reviews, so I’ll try to skirt around specifically “reviewing” the movie in that exact term, but it’ll be tough considering […]

  • The First Annual Shenzhen Film Festival

    First off, let me thank the Fruit Stand/DVD and CD Store that helped subsidize this festival. Without their 10RMB (that’s ~$1.25) rate for DVD’s, none of this would have been possible. Obviously, they’re taking a monetary loss for the free advertising I promised them in exchange for being the exclusive supplier. Most film festivals have […]

  • The Last 200 Years of Human Creative Output

    I hope that I’ll be able to post with some more frequency in the next coming while. Look for some smaller reviews in the next couple days. Humanity, I’m calling you out. I was doing some thinking the other day about what we’d do if aliens showed up. Obviously, the first course of action would […]

  • the voice of mona lisa

    Looks like somebody beat me to it. I bet if she could talk though, she’d be telling us all about her favorite soda. So recently I read this article. I understand that you all might be in a hurry, but you might want to at least peruse the article, because the entire review is sort […]