Three Tenets of Nerd: 1. A nerd must not harm another nerd, or through inaction allow a nerd to come to harm. 2. Nerds must cooperate with other nerds, except where such cooperation would violate the previous tenet. 3. Nerds […]
Consuming pop culture is my job. Well, writing about it is my job, but that makes keeping tabs on movies, television, podcasts, Twitter/Instagram feeds, and everything else a professional necessity. Yet, there's one high-protein item that always seems to be […]
It's Tuesday, which means the E3 show floor is now open. It also means we're finally at the end of a four-day slog of press conferences from some of the gaming world's largest publishers. While Activision Blizzard still doesn't do […]
There’s a moment in James Vlahos’ piece—"A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Immortality"—that made me tear up the first time I read it. Vlahos has just finished a prototype of a chatbot that speaks much like his father, […]
A throbbing beat is pounding through my skull while half-heard emo lyrics play somewhere in an abandoned viewing screen of my brain. My hands are numb. I feel jittery, a little hungover, and completely thrilled. Lumines Remastered will do that […]
The biggest question around MoviePass and its $10-per-month unlimited subscription has never been whether it’s a good deal. It's whether—or how long—it can possibly last. But there’s another monthly moviegoing plan that has largely dodged those existential doubts. In fact, […]
Last night, The Game Awards, hosted by journalist and television producer Geoff Keighley, aired on … well, on the internet, streaming on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, and just about every other platform imaginable. The successor to Spike TV's Spike Video Game […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a few weeks since the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a movie that busted up the box office and has kept fans in heated debate ever since. Yet there's another […]
At the time of this writing, the opening sentence of Larry Sanger’s Everipedia entry is pretty close to his Wikipedia entry. It describes him as “an American Internet project developer … best known as co-founder of Wikipedia.” By the time […]
So, 2017 turned out to be a year with a lot of great cinematic surprises, from the scares of Get Out to the wonderful love story in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water to the superheroine supersmash Wonder Woman. […]