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Pixar 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.

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!

Oh, 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!

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!

A man sits in a chair and delightful things happen in this post shared by dick dale the vampire

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!

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

completely 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!

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!🥳

Miracle Mile screenshot

DirtyOldTown: This is one of my three or four favorite movies EVER. I have a list of things. I could fill the whole page. Great, interesting comment about Steve de Jarnatt in Lemkin's very interesting post on the film "Miracle Mile". Go ahead and fill the whole page, DoT!

It’s THAT most time of the year, where Hallmark Christmas movies rain down like Santa plopping down the fireplace. Fortunately, jenfullmoon has started a review blog about them, so you can figure which one’s are really worth it!

Out in the among the intertubes of the internet, AlSweigart found...something, and decided to share the surreal journey. You may never ask a stranger to take a photo of you again or you may ask every stranger to take a photo of you, the journey is just wonderfully odd!

Condour75 has made a neat little app called Memento Movi! Here’s how they describe it: “The user enters date of birth and life expectancy, and chooses from a list of movies. The site then shows a frame from that movie that represents your place in your lifespan. So, for instance, a twenty-year-old who selects Star Wars will likely get a frame from Tattooine, but a sixty-year-old who selects Jaws will be on the boat.”

I’m 71.02% of the way through Howl's Moving Castle, how about you?

Photo by William Yeung, courtesy of Flickr You want scenes of cats? ‘Cause this is how you get scenes of cats, courtesy of Pink Fuzzy Bunny’s Ask MetaFilter question!

Not enough of these. (adze re-enactment tool via daegradtools.com)

At some point someone dared to wonder, "what if a time-displaced MMA-fightin' Viking orphan became a carpenter's apprentice to Jesus of Nazareth?" and voila, a movie was born! But of all the tools in this production, which ones are most wrong? Jedicus helps us see the light.