about 11 yrs ago I remember seeing a VHS movie about some kids and their dad who made a crazy flying car. the car helped the man rescue his kids from an evil dungeon. I think the dad worked in a candy factory too. I was about 4 or 5 so I don't remember much about it but I recall watching it many ...

Why does Sméagol say gollum when he's threatened? For example here: 'Leave me alone, gollum! You hurt me. O my poor hands, gollum!... I, we can't find it, gollum, gollum, no, nowhere..." Then he collapsed again. 'Gollum, Gollum,' he whimpered with his face to the ground.

Was Renly and Loras relationship healthy? We know that there was a 4 years difference between them, and Renly was also a Lord and Loras his squire, meaning he was in a position of trust and authority over Loras, but we don't know when or how it started. Any evidence in either direction?

It seems to me a Klingon cook would be at best unwelcome on the station once the Cardassians took it back (however briefly)- was it ever established if he left with the original evacuation or stuck it out?

In the movie Ginny was studying in the study area Harry found Justin minutes later. How did Ginny have time? Was another student possessed?

It was about this blonde hair boy who lived on this island and it was get shot at by missiles and his friend was about to give birth and he has a twin brother

...relatively speaking, of course. However, even taking Sauron's skill in guile, they gave him a "second chance" didn't they? Feanor had sworn the most terrible of all oaths and was responsible the most terrible crimes. He defied every living thing to hinder him - even the gods. But one thing tha...

I watch this anime between 1996 - 1997. There is a young man who found a naked white hair lady in the snowy forrest. This young lady chased by an army because she’s powerful. The young swords man had a younger sister that has healing power but she cannot heal her father. During their adventure, t...

In Star Wars: A New Hope when Kenobi saves Luke from the sand people and wakes him up. Without Luke giving his name, Kenobi calls him, "young Luke." Is there an explanation or is this just a movie mistake?

Does anyone know about an old movie (I think it's black & white) in which an alien that crashes to earth loses its hand and the hand crawls away from the crash site to become a stow-away in a woman's car. When she gets home, the hand crawls into the house and hides in the closet where it crawls u...

Lorgars plans to overthrow his father had already begun before the Emperors announcement that he was making Horus warmaster and leaving the great crusade to return to earth. When the emperor made this announcement did Lorgar know it was coming, either from his own prescience, being told it by t...

I am up to slaves to darkness in the Horus heresy series and realized that I haven’t read anything about the iron warriors or nightlords destruction of there own planets. Other than, I believe, a few passing comments or references to them as having happened on the past. I have missed out a few ...

Are muggleborns allowed to purposely cast spells using their wands before they go to Hogwarts? If a muggleborn had gotten their things from Diagon alley but it is still before September first, then will the ministry be able to detect them attempting to cast a hover charm for example? Would they...

I vaguely remember a series of stories where the protagonist was a male detective (I think an ex-cop?), in one of the stories he met with a female historian/archeologist to whom he became romantically involved with. Then there's also this mysterious, if horror circus, with in a later story turne...

I read this book years ago as a kid, and have been looking for it again. Sugar was very valuable because it was a narcotic for some species of alien.

I'm looking for the title of a book series I read at as child. The story starts on a future Earth in which people are sent back to live in medieval times. However, unknown to the future Earth, the old Earth is now ruled by aliens who capture all time travelers and use them as slaves by controlli...

In the anthology "More Than Honor" (An anthology in the Honorverse, edited by David Weber), there is an author's note following "A Grand Tour" (By David Drake) claiming that the events are based on historical events. I will reproduce it below: AUTHOR'S NOTE: readers may be amused to learn tha...

For a SF story I'm wondering how thick a planet's rings can be? When viewed from the inside, can the ring material be so dense that visibility would only be a couple of meters? What would it take to form a ring this thick, moon collisions, etc?

I'm trying to identify a novel I borrowed years ago from the public library. Unfortunately, I had to return the book before I finished it. The story involved a domed city in a post-apocalyptic world. The main character was employed as a engineer/repairman. Life under the dome was pretty sweet f...

A scientist encloses a community of mice inside a machine that makes time go much faster inside the machine. Thus he can breed successive generations of mice incredibly quickly. He breeds the population to have wings and to be intelligent. After innumerable generations he produces the required c...

The thing is reading some fics of Harry Potter, I noticed sometimes Kreacher the house elf is called 'Monster' even answering to that, something that confuse me so I wanted to ask. Is 'Kreacher' called 'Monster' in any of the books or is a typo or something that the author of some fics decided to...

The recently released S02E03 of Star Trek: Discovery showed operations of Section 31, a secret defence organization of Starfleet. Section 31 was also mentioned in Star Trek Into Darkness movie. Some Star Trek TV series like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine have also mentioned/ shown it. We've also got ...

Did Shelob know about the Ring? Considering she doesn't really have fingers, could she have used it if she had known about it?

I know Tom Jones voiced Kuzco’s Theme Song Guy in the Emperor’s New Groove, but what about Ozker’s Theme Song Guy in the episode The New Kid? And the one in Citizen Kronk?

My grade 4 class had a "slower readers" group which got to read all the SF while we read the boring stuff. They had a series that was aimed for new readers and I'd like to hunt them down for my son who will start reading soon. These were short (20 to 30 pages?), and very simple, aimed at ages 5 t...

I show the answer to this question with the “Bat train” and I immediately though: “man, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen”... then I saw Valorum’s comment (with 64 upvotes): And no, this doesn’t even break into the top 50 stupidest things seen in Batman. So I couldn’t help to ask, w...