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Fanfare This Week #6

Pixar OscarPixar Oscar by Marcin Wichary (cc by)

The Week of Living Dangerously: Your FanFare Roundup: Oscar contenders , new series and episodes and, of course, the Super Bowl.

Bonus inside this week: a massive list of all of the A24 films posted on Fanfare.

02/12/25
by loup

Fanfare This Week #5

The You You Are book sitting on a dark blue chair or cushion

Making You the You You Are brings us Best Documentary Feature nominees, new movies, what's new in TV, special events, and much more, including a new episode of Severance ... and its fictional self-help book "The You You Are" gets a real e-book. Enjoy! and thanks, DOT!

02/04/25
by taz

Fanfare This Week #4

photo image of Oscar WildeOh, no! The other Oscar, actually!

And the Oscar goes to FanFare. This week in fanfare, Oscar-nominated films with FF posts, rebooting the Wolf Man, a new take on the haunted house in Presence, One of Them Days, Star Trek: Section 31 ... but wait, there's more! We have recently released movies, older releases that are new to FanFare, current TV Shows with New Posts, vintage stuff, and "American Rapture," the 2024 novel, to mention a few. Effusive thanks as always to DirtyOldTown!

01/27/25
by taz

Short and Sweet ... or not so sweet.

Surreal futuristic artwork featuring a large floating eye at the center of a symmetrical, mirrored cityscape. The scene includes abstract architecture with spires illuminated by red lights and a glowing horizon blending into a dreamlike atmosphereimage via pixabay.com

Recently from lucidium, The God of Arepo, a short comic about a farmer and a god of small things, and from PussKillian, Wolfskin, a short comic about love. Meanwhile, posts this month from brainwane include short stories about people who think they can outwit or outlast their predators, a short scifi/horror story that partially takes place in an autonomous vehicle, and a couple of speculative stories in which pairs of women figure out some things about their relationships. Not short enough? Cast your eyes upon The Key to All Mythologies from Well I never, "the embodiment of imaginary books mentioned in other books." Sweet!

01/27/25
by taz

Fanfare This Week #3

Fix Your Hearts or Die! Special events, new movies, FF's complete David Lynch, current TV shows under discussion, new comments on older posts, and more in this week's roundup!

01/20/25
by taz

Fanfare This Week #2

Society to Advocate for the Return of Intermissions in Movies: For your delectation, a loving roundup of what's new, what's cool, what's the haps in FanFare this week! Thank you, DirtyOldTown!

01/13/25
by taz

Aisle be seeing you in all the right places

Check out something new and fantastic: This Week in FanFare, on the blue!

01/07/25
by taz

(Water)Cooler than You

close-up detail of A Complete Unknown film poster showing Timothée Chalamette as Bob Dlan in singlasses against a white backgroundcompletely unknown? Ways to promote Fanfare on the site ...

In Metatalk, people are talking about ideas for promoting and surfacing more Fanfare activity, and in Fanfare itself, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Nosferatu, Yacht Rock, and A Complete Unknown are among current hot topics. See more at the Watercooler!

01/06/25
by taz

Good Stuff in Metatalk

Oh hey, the Metafilter Card Club swap is still vibing ... continuously for nearly seven whole years now! Wow! Check the thread for how to participate in this ancient tradition. Thank you, Sparky Buttons!!! Also, CMcG is sharing their 2024 Fanfare EXTRAVAGANZA, a place where folks can share their recommended books, movies, tv, music, games, and podcasts from the past year. Nice!🥳

12/29/24
by taz

Twelfth Night Till Candlemas

For this Christmas please allow us to share with you a post from verstegan that tells a story that spans decades. It's a tale of memory and discovery, of hope and wishes, the mischevious goblins of today, and the importance of Noble Professions.

Looking for poetry book recommendations

Photo by Book Catalog, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bookcatalog/)

Lois1950's grandson would like a book of poetry. He's 13 and a avid reader, what would you recommend?

"For holiday shopping or spending down those gift cards"

image of colorful fireworks exploding off the open pages of a book

Flagged as fantastic! Or as kristi says, "an absolutely marvelous paragon of a post": joannemerriam's magnificent latest roundup of more than 50 new and forthcoming small press books. 📖❣️

11/24/24
by taz

Plots all the way down

vertigo-inducing view of a spiral staircase from aboveimage via pixabay.com

Don't tell anyone, but wooh is looking for books that feature elaborate schemes.

10/26/24
by taz

Friends Help Friends Find Sci-Fi

in shades of yellow, orange, and rust, two figures in silhouette seen from the back, one in trenchcoat, hat, and boots, and one in trousers and short coat, walking towards a futuristic silhouetted cityscape with an alien sky aboveCover detail from "The Mimicking of Known Successes" by Malka Older

Can you be the friend who reads all the current sci-fi and then excitedly recommends the ones the poster might like? Omnomnom is looking for character driven stories written in the past two years or so, so help a pal out?

10/01/24
by taz

the art of Penguin book covers

illustration of a white profile silhouette of a man's head filled with blackbirds on branchesCover detail from Anton Chekhov's The Kiss

Book love meets graphic design love meets collectible love in cupcakeninja's post on Greg Neville's Penguin Series Design. ❤️ 📔🐧

08/11/24
by taz

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