I remember seeing this on TV in the late '80s, but it's likely older than that. The boy's father must have been a scientist, because they had a supercomputer on some kind of premises (I'm not sure if it was in the house or in a lab). The boy befriended a robot who I remember as being a lot like t...

I am not going to "spoiler" a 15 year old film. The alternate ending as well as earlier scenes show more intelligence in the Dark Seekers than Neville imagined - he seemed really stuck on the idea that they were very diminished mentally even when confronted with some counter-evidence in front of ...

This is a long shot. I would like to find an old black and white science fiction movie that I saw on TV. The one scene that has stuck in my mind was of a spaceship launching its fighter ships in response to an incoming attack. Sort of like the Galactica launching Vipers when the Cylons attack. T...

Very hazy on this one, but I read it in English in I think the early 90s, although it may have been published in the 70s or even earlier. Probably YA. General shape of the story is that the protagonist (I think a teenage boy, possibly with a friend or relative who was a girl of similar age) meet...

Setting: Dark Fantasy on Earth similar to our own Important Plot Points: The main villain is a father who resents his child as his wife died in childbirth. There is also a giant hooded figure. Extra Notes: I think there was a game based on the book to promote it. I remember learning of this st...

I am trying to find a movie which was about 3 short stories. The first was about a fat man who wanted to be light and than he became light as a feather and he fly like a ballon. And still he was fat. Than the other story was about a man who wanted to be fast. And than he became so fast that no on...

Having read many thousands of SF books over the years, I can't remember either the author or the title of this particular series. Underground experimental stasis test facility partially collapsed, written off, and forgotten. Soldier in stasis protected when world-wide catastrophe strikes. He aw...

As a kid I remember watching this tv show on Netflix about this kid who summons some sort of fire bull like creature from a book and I am pretty sure that he was not suppose to summon it because I think it was forbidden that and that some light master betrays them is the only thing I can remember.

In Loki episode 6, we hear He Who Remains say: ... You came to kill the devil, right? (CHUCKLES) Well, guess what? I keep you safe. And if you think I’m evil, well, just wait till you meet my variants. … And that’s the gambit! Stifling order or cataclysmic chaos. (CHUCKLES) You may hate the dict...

In Star Trek: Voyager, the EMH is clearly more human-like than Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation: When a hologram died in Heroes and Demons, the EMH Thus he has emotions as there is no logical reason for choosing this. Data doesn't truly have emotions without the emotion chip, which is m...

Looking for a science-fiction story about a man who breaks an alien out of a secure facility. They travel around with the alien in disguise. The alien releases something—gas, virus, spores?—that benefits humanity. Read sometime in the past 25 years and it was in a short story collection.

Based on this story ID, I've started watching Firebird 2015 AD on YouTube. In the opening scene, after the song, we here a newsreader on the radio say "Meanwhile in a speech to Congress today, the President deplored the actions of the ten states which have voted to allot oil and gasoline supplie...

"Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018) #23", 17/2/2021, has the following panel Which seems to show Miles using a "Venom-blast", to free what looks like a regular dragon from the symbiote that was infecting it. Afterwards it is more friendly, and has changed from black and red to uniform grey. He has...

About 2010 (maybe earlier) I played a 3D PC game where you needed to navigate around a series of interconnected indoor areas with a range of platforms (at a wide variety of heights), long spindly connecting bridges, force-fields (some of which had holes in them), floor death grids, fixed and movi...

In harry potter 6 (the book) it seems as if creating potions according to the potions book, results in failure for most students, even Hermione doesn't manage to do it perfectly according to the books instructions. Harry on the other hand, manages to create the potion perfectly by following the h...

Still looking for this story. I've posted this before but I'm hoping fresh eyes will be able to help me find it. It's a short story about a young woman living in a post-Yellowstone caldera eruption environment. She lives a grubby, cold and hungry existence with a manipulative boyfriend who tolcho...

I sadly don't remember much about this one - hoping someone else can shed some light or at least add details to help the search. This was a movie whose main character was a 20-something man in a period martial arts setting. He was a rogue / thief / mischief maker, or at the very least had some mi...

My husband wants to find a short story he read in Analog magazine about Israeli scientists using a time-travelling device to go to the time of dinosaurs. (The device is not precisely accurate as to time.) While there they have adventures. When they try to come back to the present, something is w...

I have just watched Arrival and there is a scene that has confused me a little bit. How can this be explained? Is it a paradox or is it alright?

In the first episode of Loki (2021) in the Transcript Room, Loki is told to sign a stack of papers documenting every word he has ever said. Loki, being over 1000 years old and quite the talkative type makes me ponder if this stack of words is grossly short, and how big it should have been. Is the...