Spooky Lights: “Nutcracker”
City Lights Theater Company’s annual Halloween podcast “Spooky Lights” put out the call for true ghost stories. A nutcracker answered.
San Jose
Cinequest 2021: Drive All Night
If you’ve walked in downtown San Jose by day, you might not have thought of it as a David Lynchian landscape. Maybe not even walking […]
Cinequest 2021: Peter Hsieh Couldn’t Sleep, So He Created Drive All Night
To some, Silicon Valley is already a wonderland. Playwright Peter Hsieh saw another side to it, and taking his own sleepless nights driving around the […]
Cinequest 2020: Before The Fire
Do you have time to confront the past when it looks like there’s no future? Writer/actor Jenna Lyng Adams finds an intriguing way into the […]
Evil Dead The Musical HD Earns A Bloody A
Five young adults go for a weekend getaway to a remote cabin in the woods. No one knows they’re there. What could go wrong? With […]
Symphony Silicon Valley Offers A New Hope
For the first time in three years, we didn’t get a Star Wars movie for the holidays. You know what? That’s okay. We were due to […]
Dance Dads
What has been seen cannot be unseen. For this year’s San Jose 48-Hour Film Project, filmmakers (and occasional podcast contributors) Drew Campbell and Jason Salazar […]
2018 Hugo Award Finalists To Be Announced At 7 Stars Bar & Grill
On March 31st, the members of the World Science Fiction Convention will announce the finalists for its highest awards — and for retroactive awards that […]
Cinequest 2018: “Pie”
UPDATED 3/27/2020: The short itself is now embedded below. Enjoy! Anthology series like Black Mirror are well and good, but we need something back like Night Gallery, […]
Cinequest 2018: Bending Space, Folding Time
This year, Cinequest has divided up its science fiction shorts programming into two different programs. It’s quite possible that the division is arbitrary, since a […]
Cinequest 2018: 7 Splinters In Time aka Omphalos
Are you really mentally ill if everyone agrees that someone is out to kill you, and has already succeeded twice?
Cinequest 2018: How to Cinequest!
As regular listeners to the Fanboy Planet Podcast know, San Jose’s award-winning Cinequest film festival opened last night. Opening night at Cinequest typically features an […]
We’re An SVCC 2018 Affiliate!
Fanboy Planet broadcasts from the Silicon Valley. There’s this show Steve Wozniak puts on called the Silicon Valley Comic Con. We even did a podcast […]
Stan Lee AND Jim Shooter Appearing At Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018
Registration opens today for Silicon Valley Comic Con, Steve Wozniak’s pop culture convention that also carries a fair bit of tech weight. Grown from the […]
The 2017 Hugo Awards Finalists
Announced this morning from Helsinki, here are the finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards. Attendees of Worldcon 75 in Helsinki will be voting on the […]
The Failure of DC Movies Set To Music
As I walked in downtown San Jose today, I passed by the now closed Camera 12 Cinemas. We have had time to mourn. But all […]
Pam Grier Coming To San Jose For SVCC
Ground-breaking actress Pam Grier has just been added to the list of guests at Silicon Valley Comic Con 2017. Best known for her roles in […]
Silicon Valley Comic Con 2017 Celebrates Star Trek Cast!
Tickets went on sale today for Steve Wozniak’s Silicon Valley Comic Con 2017, along with some terrific guest announcements. You can read those below, but […]
Jason Clarke Joins ‘Winchester’
If things had gone according to plan, Jason Clarke would be starring as an antagonistic John Connor in a series of Terminator movies. Instead, he’s got […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 451: Back to 7 Stars!
The Fanboys record live at 7 Stars, the Silicon Valley’s preeminent Star Wars bar, with the fannish news you can use!
