One scene in The Mandalorian bears a striking resemblance to the end of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Note the desert landscape, sunset, back to the audience, long robes, and long weapons strapped to the back. Have any creators stated if it was an intentional homage?

I am recalling the back story of a character in a story. The city were her family lived, (Pretty sure it was Western USA costal city, I get a vibe that it was larger city, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, etc.) Her back story was that at the age of 3 or 4 or 5? the city was destroyed and her f...

I glimpsed a part of a movie or maybe a TV show episode. In the scene I watched, a school of children is evacuated because of a fire. One of the children says that someone is missing, but the teacher reassures them that she counted everyone. In a separate scene, a long, rectangular object is brou...

The movie I watched was about a company that had some sort of machine that would remove people's souls out of their bodies. The soul would appear as a physical object. People went to this company willingly, knowing what the machine does. After the soul removal, the person would still act like a n...

Cartoon about monsters that solve mysteries? I remember one episode where they look into realistic statues of people that you can hear crying and when they break a piece they find human hair. Turns out the statue maker was casting real people into statues. Pretty sure all the main characters wer...

15 or more years ago I watched a TV cartoon series (probably an anime) about a school boy who was living together with some alien (I think it was an alien, but I do not know its origin; maybe a deamon?). I am not sure whether the boy considered them friends, because the alien regularly used his v...

In The Children of Húrin, after Mîm is captured by Túrin and his outlaws, he promises to lead them to his house, in ransom of his life. At first, he attempts to leave them for the night, and promises to return by day. They are unwilling to let him leave without some safety, such as his sack. Then...

In the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, during the 422 Quidditch World Cup Final, an image of the Dark Mark in the sky was cast by Barty Crouch Jr: Then Harry escapes from Barty, and meets Hermoine and Ron. Why did Barty cast this spell in the sky?

I read this novel in the late 70's where the protagonist is fleeing from the authorities and goes into a completely automated store. He needs to use an id card like an ATM card to make his purchases. Each person had "credits" they could spend based on their ranking in society. For some reason I c...

In this particular manga the main character goes to India. While he is there he protects a Indian girl who has powers of Shiva/Rudra, but the girl ultimately dies and girl gives some of her power to the main character while dying. I think maybe it's a Korean or Chinese novel. It's like powers/inc...

In honor of the release of Logan, widely acknowledged most likely to be the last time Patrick Stewart will play Professor X: It strikes me as rather lucky that a bald English actor of the skill and gravitas of Patrick Stewart existed at the right time to play Charles Xavier, and one known in SF ...

One thing I noticed after finishing The Book of the New Sun is that early in the narrative Wolfe has included several places where the reader familiar with current human culture and technology can tell what Severian is describing even if Severian does not know what something is. The Matachin Tow...

I'm looking for a movie that scared the bejesus out of me as a kid. It was either a direct adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, "Hansel and Gretel", or something with a similar story. Kids stuck in a house with an evil witch that wanted to eat them, that sort of thing. The line that gave me nightm...

I know in the LOTR books that it's mentioned that the people out there serve and/or revere Sauron. But is there any source material that discusses what is actually out there? Are there any cities, kingdoms, or anything else of note or is it just a vast expanse of land used as a plot setting to de...

What are swords/knives such as Sting, Anduril, Guthwine made of? Iron? Steel? Mithril?

I watched a horror movie about some kind of creature that was brought into the world by a Native American chief casting a curse. I think the creature was a monstrous wolf or a werewolf, but maybe it was some other creature. It could not be killed by conventional weapons. Eventually, a woman someh...

So awhile back i watched this anime clip on youtube where this guy lost his arm and was following someone who was fleeing from him but the one armed guy was only walking to him and was laughing the whole time like he was going crazy, the other guy shoots at him and misses every bullet…for the lif...