Author: Tim Gaydos

It’s 11:00 am in the morning, and Alexandria Keshniev’s apartment is a hive of activity. There are twenty individuals crammed into her one-bedroom apartment; the only reason they can all fit is because Alexandria has almost no furnishings. There is one couch in the living area, which can fit three bodies if you don’t mind surrendering some personal space, and a 27 inch television hanging on the opposite wall. The Weather Channel is on in the background. Most of those in the apartment are busy finishing up signs to take with them for the protest. Others are frantically updating various…

In which Tim spends the month watching horror movies on Netflix and recaps them for your pleasure. Brad Pitt’s Fantastic Hair is driving around with his family when a zombie breakout caused by Ebola rabies overruns New Jersey. It turns out zombies are just the best at head-butting windshields. Fortunately, Brad Pitt’s Hair used to do investigations for the UN, so Hair and his family are safe in exchange for Hair to go globetrotting, like a long-distance Race For The Cure. He is also the worst investigator, as he cannot help but make noise despite the one thing they know about these…

By this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if your aunt who calls all video game devices “The Game Boy” has heard of Gamergate. Since it started back in August, the “movement” and talk of the movement has taken on a life of its own. For those who aren’t aware of the details, this here is a pretty nice summary. But the abridged version is this: indie game developer Zoe Quinn’s ex posted blog entries alleging that Quinn had cheated on him with five guys, specifically guys in game journalism. Thus a conspiracy took hold that Quinn essentially slept her way to success,…

In which Tim spends the month watching horror movies on Netflix and recaps them for your pleasure. Biker Chick comes home for her awful mother’s funeral to find her sister has disappeared.  “Oh well, whateves,” she says.  “She’s probably just getting high.”  Then her cousin disappears, and Biker Chick finds herself fighting invisible forces and stabs a wall.  Her GPS becomes haunted, and starts her on a digital scavenger hunt to uncover a Spooky Secret.  Fortunately, Biker Chick went to high school with a medium who buys her makeup at Hot Topic.  She helps Biker Chick get in touch with the ghost,…

In which Tim spends the month watching horror movies on Netflix and recaps them for your pleasure. Paranormal Activity: But in an Apartment This Time begins when Father Of The Year hires a ghost-hunting crew to videotape and figure out what is causing all the supernatural hi-jinks going on in the apartment he lives in with his two children, a teenage girl and a little boy. The mother died for reasons that are kept mysterious for later payoff, because narrative! The team gets to work investigating terrifying things such as Noises, Upside-Down Pictures, Tea Kettles That are Not on the Stove, and…

In which Tim spends the month watching horror movies on Netflix and recaps them for your pleasure. The little girl from the first movie grows up and goes blonde. She lives with her dad Sean Bean, which is always a bad sign. Lots of mythology is dispensed through clunky exposition when Blonde Girl hooks up with Jon Snow to find her missing dad in Silent Hill, which is also in Blonde Girl’s head(?). Upon arriving in the town they find it is haunted by demonic figures and an oppressive soundtrack. There is also an amusement park, where Pyramid Head works…

Geek War is a semi-regular dueling column between Tim Gaydos and Linton Lewis, where they argue over pop culture with varying degrees of intensity. In the world of television it is quite a feat for a show, especially a genre show, to be able to end on its own terms. To end when its writers and showrunners decide and plan for it to, as opposed to being canceled because the network wanted to bleed it dry until the ratings became nonexistent. When a network decides to cancel a show halfway through the season, fans of the show either don’t get any…

We had a good run, America. We’ve shared a lot, and you will always have a special place in my heart. But it’s time for me to move on. To Japan. Why, you may ask? THIS: In the event you’re a jerk and didn’t actually watch that, it’s a fighting game with Pokémon. Do you have any idea how incredible that is?! That’s a dream come true for just about anyone who has ever played the game. Choose between four attacks? FORGET THAT HERE’S A SUPER COMBO. The game is being developed by Nintendo and Namco Bandai, the latter responsible…

The tech industry is very fond of “disrupting” established services. Typically what this means is they try to provide an alternative that is simpler or more efficient (or both) than what already exists. For example, trying to get a taxi in the city can be as frustrating as finding a joke in a Jeff Dunham routine. Wouldn’t it be better if you could order a taxi through an app?! Thus, Uber was born, and there were never any problems ever again. Unfortunately, it seems the tech industry is running out of things to disrupt and is now turning its attention…

To say that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is bad is an oversimplification. Looked at strictly as a summer action movie, it’s pretty standard and falls in the middle of the pack. A handful of action sequences spaced out by exposition and bare-bones characterization. It’s by-the-book-action. And that’s why it fails. The movie takes a premise and characters that are inherently silly and absurd and forgets to have fun with it. It comes across as an assembly line production, made by people just doing a job as opposed to people who care at all about the characters they…