I just stumbled upon the story from 2021 that one orc in The Lord of the Rings was modeled after Harvey Weinstein: One orc among many in the Lord of the Rings movies was designed to resemble Harvey Weinstein as a “sort of fuck you” to the notorious producer, Elijah Wood, who played the hobbit Fr...

I read this story about 4/5 years ago about the Greek god Apollo having a lover who keeps getting reincarnated. Set in modern times.

In X-Men (2021) #6 it is mentioned that Cyclops can not go out in public due to recently being seen dying in public. But when I read X-Men #5 he seemed alive and well. Is this referencing a death that happened a while ago? Or in another comic running in parallel? Which comic?

In LD: Where Pleasant Fountains Lie, Ensigns Boimler and Mariner find a crashed starship that AGIMUS tries to influence them to salvage. I've watched and rewatched this scene and can't quite figure out whose starship it is they find. Since Boimler seems to be so intimately aware of the systems to...

The scene in which Faromir is leading a battle and Denethor is eating the tomato while Pippin sings. What is the significance of that? Ostensibly it's to show that Denethor isn't interested or has already given up on Faromir, but why was it shown that way in particular, with Pippin singing and th...

I’m looking for an episode of a childrens’ cartoon featuring a young (teenage?) astronaut. As far as I recollect, he was flying a red-white striped rocket (not unlike Tintin’s rocket, but my memory might conflate things a bit.) I seem to remember that his name was Archie or similar, and that he b...

Circa 1977 I read a collection of short stories, all with a medical theme and all told from a British doctor’s point of view (this was in a British library). I have often remembered it, but have never been able to think of the author or the title. One of the first stories took place in the first ...

I read this book some years ago and I can't remember the title or the author. I know it was about a girl who hated her father and was trained to fight. I remember that this girl read a prophecy which said she has to lose the most important things to her: which were her father (she found out her f...

So, this has been bugging me literally forever. I was a kid and this is the first film I remember watching and I have never found out which was. My parents remember it upon description but can't pinpoint it's name. I don't recall much. Late 90s sci-fi, probably horror or similar (I was very frigh...

As of the beginning of Encanto, Mirabel is the only person born into the Madrigal family not to have received a gift, with people receiving gifts both before and after her. The manner in which she did not receive her gift was intriguing, too: a door started to form for her, then disappeared. Even...

I probably first read this book decades ago. In the last year or so I found it again and started reading it - since then I lost it and can't remember if it was a physical book or an electronic one! Everyone in the civilization has a numerical level, a rigid class system. The story starts during ...