OK so I've been trying to remember a horror film I watched a few years back but I'm worried it doesn't actually exist and is a figment of my imagination 😅. So I thought it was a movie from the "Halloween" franchise where it was an older Michael Myres walking about in a long trench coat, but some...

The 1816 story "The Sandman" by E. T. A. Hoffmann is a very famous work of nineteenth-century horror fiction and a landmark in the development of the German Romanticism. (The original German text is here, and an English translation may be found here.) It has been adapted for the stage and scree...

In Big Bang Theory season 3 episode 17, Raj, Howard and Leonard will buy a cardboard full of artefacts from a garage sale and later Sheldon finds a ring from that box, which was used on the LOTR. They will be arguing whether to sell the ring or return to Jackson(original owner). So later four wil...

Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90. Best known for his role as James Bond, which is not considered Sci-Fi or Fantasy, however he did star in many SFF films such as Zardoz, Highlander, Indiana Jones, First Knight, and his last appearance on screen in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen....

In the final chapter, when Shadow meets Iceland's version of Odin, he asks if Shadow will return to the U.S.. Shadow answers there is nothing waiting for him there, which he realizes is false, and Odin replies there is something but it will await his return. What is this?

Harrison Ford got a scar on his chin from a car accident he had in real life, but is there a Star Wars in-universe explanation about Han Solo getting it?

In the episode The Chase, Picard and his crew investigate an archaeological track on the origin of life. Both Klingons and Romulans are involved, believing it can lead to phenomenal weapon technology and at the end we have a holovideo with a never-before seen species, an alien explaining that his...

In Star Trek: Insurrection, the crew of the Enterprise discover a cloaked Federation transport or dropship that had been hidden on a planet. From a story perspective, of course, this hints that there is something very wrong with the mission as it had been explained to Picard et al., but the origi...

I assume it is more than mere visual invisibility -- do star ships actually use photons to "see" other spacecraft given that things are moving FTL? Is the technology discussed in detail someplace? Today I am pretty sure we can make airplanes literally invisible although I am not sure that this ha...

I was watching a video on YouTube where an elderly Gore Vidal made mention that he was working on a book about the Mexican-American war. In the video Gore Vidal was already in a wheelchair but he was still very witty. I suspect he passed away before completing the manuscript. Does anyone know ...