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Coherence is a good one that fits this category.

Edit: oops, I see it was already mentioned and already has a FanFare thread.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 12:09 PM on March 22, 2022

I'm watching this, and enjoying it for the most part.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 7:10 PM on February 17, 2021

It's a bit old by now but Recitify has probably some of the best acting of any show I've seen in the last several years, and I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix now. You need to watch several episodes to get into it though.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 9:28 PM on June 17, 2019

I'm into a book club, I've been reading a bunch of horror fiction and there's so much dross it's hard to find the good stuff. I'm cool with a tag as a starting place.

Suggestions for a good book to start with? I've been reading a lot of Laird Barron recently and I liked his recent short story collection Swift to Chase, where a bunch of the stories are linked to one another (and then there's a total rando space opera story about a cyborg dog). There are also a bunch of… [more]
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 3:02 AM on May 21, 2018

I like this idea, although I suppose one could arguably post an Ask Metafilter question about this kind of thing, too. I've been wanting to ask people who have watched the show Persons of Interest about what parts of the kind of dumb-seeming first season I can skip in order to get to the apparently better stuff later in the show, for example. Anyways, I could see some value in "spoiler free discussions about a particular show / book series / etc" that aren't… [more]
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 8:16 PM on January 16, 2017

Ok, cool. Maybe I'll put up a post for the first book in a few weeks or so? I've been meaning to go back and reread them anyways.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 5:10 PM on November 4, 2016

I'm interested, although despite reading the threads I've had scant time to comment in the horror movie club posts, so I don't want to over-commit. I've recently been reading a lot of horror short-story anthologies and kind of feel like I enjoy short stories more than novels in this genre, but I'd be glad to get some recommendations for good novels too.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 11:12 PM on December 9, 2015

I'd definitely be up for some random discussion, but don't have a very good memory for these things. This list of 10 good episodes from the AV Club might make a good starting point.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 7:27 PM on August 2, 2015

Thanks for the update pb, I guess I must have missed the metatalk thread.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 6:47 AM on July 7, 2015

I hear that they are decent SD versions with a blurred out watermark you don't really notice in the lower-left corner. They seem to be leaked screeners, presumably given to a reviewer or something.

Dinklage has always seemed sleepy or a little off or something when I've seen him in interviews. I think he might be a bit too arch for that format in general.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 7:15 AM on April 13, 2015

I enjoyed the pilot a lot. The novel is definitely in Dick's top three, and I always thought it was probably one of the most amenable to cinematic adaptation. I'd be up for discussing it.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 10:49 AM on January 17, 2015

Oh, great. I thought the movie was really good when I first saw it, but I haven't gone back to re-watch it. I thought Kim's more recent film I Saw the Devil was pretty good too.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 9:42 PM on December 2, 2014

Yeah, I was enjoying following along with the discussions even when I didn't have much to say, or more frequently when I just couldn't find the time to actually watch a movie.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 4:30 PM on November 15, 2014

Did these ever get posted? I don't see them in the archives, but maybe I'm just not finding them.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 6:46 AM on October 30, 2014

I could take on a post or two as well. I was following the discussions with some interest, but wound up being too busy for one movie a week.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 6:34 AM on November 10, 2014

(Also I don't want to have watched the benighted V/H/S: Viral in vain!)
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 6:36 AM on November 10, 2014

Does it really matter who makes the post? My feeling is, if the post isn't there and you want to discuss the show, why not just make the post yourself? The more interesting part is the discussion, right? I guess I'm not really seeing what practical difference it makes.
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 9:05 PM on August 23, 2014

I'm definitely into the crossover category, and in general of using a very loose definition of "horror" overall. As long as the actual movie is interesting, I'll watch it, even it it's more "hyperviolent thriller" than "horror" per se. But maybe other folks have a more narrowly-focused interest?

I also like the idea of a rotating person-who-chooses-movies slot. I think DirtyOldTown has been doing a great job with the selections so far, but… [more]
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 6:52 PM on August 5, 2014

I missed the last one but I'm definitely in for just about any of the films which have been discussed so far. I remember being very impressed with Tesis as a sort of meta-horror film and I have an interest in that particular subgenre because of its reflexive nature.

I thought I Saw the Devil was good, though I think the similar and slightly earlier Korean film Chaser is a good deal more interesting - those… [more]
posted to FanFare Talk by whir at 8:15 PM on July 28, 2014