I remember once hearing somebody in the film industry use a term for a brief early scene or shot that marked out that a film would be part of the science fiction. For example, the films Predator (1987) and The Thing (1982) both have openings shot of alien spacecraft, which confirm for the viewer...

Does anyone recognise this, please? (I know I found this story again a few years ago, and read it using the Kindle app, but it doesn't show in the app or my account)

The scene is where the astronauts are talking to ground control about HAL's erratic behavior. The astronauts are somewhere near Jupiter and ground control is on Earth so the minimum communication transit time is 35 minutes. If they were true to science, the communication would near to impossible...

According to this answer, active clone troopers in the GAR (Grand Army of Republic) were in millions. If I draw analogies from the real world, they aren't enough for even planetary wars. China, India, North Korea, Russia and US all have millions of active soldiers just protecting borders. And, th...

Its an isekai manga where a girl is teleported to earth in country side Japan and starts leaving the MC then she is taken by the goverment and is tested for disease and then is girl and MC return back together to home start leaving their everday life

The premise of this movie is that almost the entirety of the world's population has been turned into vampires by a virus. Whatever humans haven't been turned into vampires are used as food by the new society. I think the movie focuses on a vampire that finds some uninfected humans and decided to ...

In this movie, a professor or maybe a scientist of some kind creates a device that opens a portal to hell. This ends up sending the main characters there. In hell, one of them is infested with parasites of some kind. Maybe they are giant worms? I don't quite remember. I think, during the course o...

In Through the Looking Glass, we see the first use of the Multidimensional Transporter Device (MTD), when Smiley kidnaps Sisko to bring him to the mirror universe. We see the device again when Jennifer kidnaps Jake, and leaves an MTD for Sisko. In The Emperor's New Cloak, Rom states he was given ...

There are many things I find vague in the 2019 French TV series La Dernière Vague, but the very first episode creates a doozy. Competitors in a surfing competition in the seaside resort of Brizan are swept away by a massive wave that suddenly appears. The more we go west, the further they go! T...

My notes on the book make the strange claim that he only appears in exactly three scenes. I cannot believe that I ever cared to count, but my memory of the book agrees with this count. I can only recall: Harry first encountering Dobby in his bedroom. I think there's a blink-and-you'll-miss it re...

In cartoons, there are many times instances where somebody is on a stage at a theatre or similar, performing poorly. Then somebody from one of the sides takes this "cane" or "rod" tool and physically remove them from stage without them entering the stage. One example is in the cartoon music video...