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Released at the tail end of 2014, The Crew served as a fitting conclusion to a tumultuous 2014 for Ubisoft. The Ivory Tower developed racer had plenty of potential, as its replica of the United States promised a massive playground for drivers to toy around with. Unfortunately, thanks to some questionable design decisions and troublesome glitches, the title was unable to reach its full potential. After less than impressive reviews from critics, and underwhelming sales, it appeared that the ride was already over for the game.

Surprisingly, though, Ubisoft unveiled The Crew: Wild Run at their E3 conference earlier this year. Despite the presence of a season pass already available for the title, Wild Run is a full-fledged expansion pack. While the original release focused mostly street and dirt racing, the expansion pack introduces three new types of challenges for racers to indulge in. Coinciding with the release of the Dlc, Ivory Tower...

Here’s an Archive of every TV Recap we’ve ever done here at Bwe.tv, organized by show and season, for Breaking Bad, Lost, The Walking Dead, Game Of Thrones, Mad Men, The Office, Teach: Tony Danza (essential), American Idol, The Real Housewives, Boardwalk Empire, and Top Chef. Feel free to read them at your recap-needing leisure, or all right now in a row (mini photo-spoilers): Breaking Bad Breaking Bad Season 4: Episode 1 – “Box Cutter” Episode 2 – “Thirty-Eight Snub” Episode 3 – “Open House” Episode 4 – “Bullet Points” Episode 5 – “Shotgun” Episode 6 – “Cornered” Episode 7 – “Problem Dog” Episode 8 – “Hermanos” Episode 9 – “Bug” Episode 10 – “Salud” Episode 11 – “Craw Space” Episode 12 – “End Times” Episode 13 – “Face Off” Lost Lost Season 4: Episode 1 – “The Beginning of the End” Episode 2 – “Confirmed Dead” Episode 3 – “The Economist” Episode 4 – “Eggtown” Episode 5 – “The Constant” Episode 6 – “The Other Woman” Episode 7 – “Ji Yeon” Episode 8 – “Meet Kevin Johnson” Episode 9 – “The Shape of Things to Come” Episode 10 – “Something Nice...

Executively produced by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese and from the pen of The Sopranos scribe Terence Winter, Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season received 18 Emmy Award nominations, winning eight including ‘Outstanding Drama Series’, ‘Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series’ and ‘Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama’. This visually stunning gangster epic set in the 1920’s features some of the most awe-inspiring production design ever seen on screen along with an authentic soundtrack that will immerse viewers in the period.

Steve Buscemi (Armageddon, The Big Lebowski) stars in this explosive HBO drama series set at the dawn of the Prohibition era, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. Charting the birth of organised crime, the series chronicles the life and times of Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson (Buscemi), the Atlantic City treasurer whose double role as politician and bootlegger makes him the most powerful man on the Boardwalk.

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The act of writing allows me to feel truly alive. Knowing that I have sold 140 million books worldwide (and given an average of three readers per copy, have reached half a billion people), I have always wondered who these readers were who understood so well what I was saying. How could countries with such different cultures, like Israel and Iran, for example, be interested in my books? When I started using social media, without any assistance or planning,...

Scrupulously period accurate TV drama Boardwalk Empire (recently underway on Sky Atlantic) is set in early 1920s Atlantic City, a then hotbed of political corruption and prohibition racketeering. Not that such a description would be alluded to in the holiday brochures; on the surface everything was salt water taffy and Temperance League matriarchs fighting the good fight.

Via John A. Dunn’s striking costumes, the show broadly ensures that men are the primary objects of exhibition, in particular corrupt county treasurer Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi). This is because women of the era had yet to break away from history’s designated roles of wife, mother, sex object; they had no freedom to choose their path.

Following implementation of the 19th Amendment in the U.S., individual states were no longer able to prohibit women from voting. As Boardwalk Empire gets underway the pilot episode sets a scene of a community on the verge of change,...

The 9th Annual Ves Awards will premiere on Reelzchannel Saturday, February 19 at 10 Pm Et/Pt with encore presentations throughout February.

Complete list of winners of the 9th Annual Ves Awards (via Deadline):

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual-Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture

Inception

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture

Hereafter

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

How to Train Your Dragon

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or a Special

The Pacific

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series

Caprica

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program

Boardwalk Empire

Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short

Day & Night

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – Dobby

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

How to Train Your Dragon – Toothless

Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

How to Train Your Dragon...

Christopher Nolan's "Inception" dominated the 9th annual Visual Effects Society Awards winning the top prize of Outstanding Visual Effcts in a VFX-driven feature. The mind-bending film won all four categories that it was nominated for.

DreamWorks Animations' "How to Train Your Dragon" also received love from the Ves sweeping the feature animation categories including Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature.

The ceremony, held at the Beverly Hilton, also paid homage to Nolan by giving him the inaugural Ves Visionary Award. The great Ray Harryhausen was given the much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award.

Here's the complete list of the winners of the 9th annual Visual Effects Society (Ves) Awards (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual-Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture

Inception

Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Mike Chambers, Matthew Plummer

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture

Hereafter

Michael Owens,...

The Visual Effects Society (Ves) has announced the nominees for the 9th Annual Ves Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories of film, animation, television,

commercials and video games.

Christopher Nolan's "Inception" dominated the nominations receiving four nods. Nolan will also be honored at the event with the inaugural Ves Visionary Award. Ray Harryhausen will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Ves Awards will take place on Tuesday, February 1 and will air exclusively on Reelzchannel Saturday, February 19 at 10p Et/Pt with encore presentations throughout February.

Here's the complete list of nominees for the 9th Annual Ves Awards:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual-Effects Driven Feature Motion

Picture

Inception

Paul Franklin Visual Effects Supervisor

Chris Corbould Special Effects Supervisor

Mike Chambers Visual Effects Producer

Matthew Plummer Visual Effects Producer

Iron Man 2

Ben Snow VFX Supervisor

Ged Wright VFX Supervisor

Janek Sirrs VFX Supervisor

Susan Pickett VFX...

Inception, which featured an amazing zero-gravity brawl and a Paris that folds in on itself, earned four nominations at the 9th annual Visual Effects Society Awards. HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, which transforms modern-day Brooklyn into 1929 Atlantic City, led all shows and movies with five nominations.

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual-Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture

Inception

Iron Man 2

Tron: Legacy

Alice In Wonderland

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture

Green Zone

Salt

Hereafter

Black Swan

Robin Hood

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Tangled

How to Train Your Dragon...

Boardwalk Empire recap: Season 1, Episode 2 "The Ivory Tower" (9/26/10)

You know your show is fantastic when there is literally no debate over what the season's best new show is. Such is the life of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, which was picked up earlier this week for its second season (after only one episode had aired). So life in general is clearly good for the Winter and Scorsese families at the moment. Does that bliss translate to this week's to the quality of this week's episode? Of course it does. Here are our top ten awesome things about this week's episode of this awesome show:

10. "Omar coming!"

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Hey, here’s a fun literary fact for you: “The Ivory Tower,” which is the title of this episode and the book that Kelly MacDonald is reading in the hospital, is an unfinished Henry James novel. It’s about how possessions, things you own, or want, corrupt people. Which of course, has nothing to do with any of our characters. Cough.

And yes, here we are at the second episode of Boardwalk Empire, a show which already posted the best numbers HBO has ever had, and has already been picked up for a second season. The first episode, hey, it makes sense it did so well: advertising was great; the pedigree was great; and it played like Goodfellas 1920. So why wouldn’t people go gaga? The real test is right here, right now. You can have a movie with some loose ends, and call that a pilot, but the second...

Boardwalk Empire continues to lay the groundwork for the first season tonight with episode 2, Ivory Tower. Boardwalk Empire Season 1 Episode 2: “The Ivory Tower” Debut: Sunday, Sept. 26 (9:00-10:00 p.m. Et/Pt) Investigating a crime which he feels has been pinned on a scapegoat, straight-arrow Agent Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon) pays a visit to Nucky and leaves convinced that the Treasurer is “as corrupt as the day is long.” Nucky quickly does damage control, enlisting his brother, Sheriff Elias Thompson (Shea Whigham), to close ranks with their underlings. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Al Capone (Stephen Graham) shows a local reporter what he thinks about accusations that Johnny Torrio (Greg Antonacci) was involved in the slaying of local mobster “Big Jim” Colosimo (Frank Crudele). Back in Atlantic City, Nucky discusses the upcoming election with his aging mentor, Commodore Louis Kaestner (Dabney Coleman), with whom he debates the women’s vote issue.

Following a successful series premiere, Boardwalk Empire moves along with a new episode on Sunday night.

Titled "The Ivory Tower," the installment will feature:

Agent Nelson Van Alden suspecting Nucky of corruption. Al Capone taking on a reporter. Salesman George Baxter making a shocking discovery.

Watch the episode's official preview below and return to TV Fanatic Monday morning for a comprehensive review.

The Ivory Tower Preview...

"Boardwalk Empire" opened to a strong number and for that it's granted a second season. HBO has renewed the new series starring Steve Buscemi after only one episode that attracted 4.8 million viewers. The cable has not absorbed such amount of rating since the 2004 opener of "Deadwood".

"All the ingredients aligned for this one, from Mark Wahlberg and Steve Levinson's initial pitch, to Martin Scorsese's enormous contributions as director and executive producer, to the genius of Terry Winter and the expertise of Tim Van Patten, to a stellar cast led by Steve Buscemi," said president of HBO programming Michael Lombardo. "The response from the media and our viewers has been nothing short of amazing."

The second season is actually a given considering the amount of money spent to erect the magnificent set. The big investment includes an actual boardwalk and costumes that resemble America in 1920s. The cast are...