The term you want is "tracking shot." Panning means rotating a stationary camera to the left or right.

Strictly speaking, shouldn't Batman be one of the dark knights?

True, but the "far away in a distant galaxy" bit on top of that is a rather striking coincidence.

Yep — mirrors reverse front to back. The reason we perceive it as left to right is because we're comparing it with another person facing us — who'd be rotated 180 degrees and thus reversed both left/right and front/back. So when we see our reflections flipped front/back, we compare it to someone facing us but flipped…

As long as we're overthinking it, here's a bit of over-nitpicking: Pegasus was actually the given name of an individual winged horse, not his species. The species name is pterippus (which translates as... wait for it... "winged horse"), plural pterippi, adjective pterippine. There is apparently no distinct Greek word…

The invasion was in, what, 2015 or so? So there were a few years we didn't see during which Olivia could've gotten closer to Nina as the latter tried to continue their relationship. Olivia did greet Nina very warmly here, with that glorious Anna Torv smile, suggesting that there was a close bond between them despite…

There is a mild fantasy component in the first season of Veronica Mars, involving periodic visits by what might be a ghost. But it's never really delved into.

The really stupid thing about the people shocked by Rue's race in the Hunger Games movie is that the first three or four times Rue is mentioned in the book, it's specifically mentioned that she has brown skin. It's right there on the dang page. Some people just don't read the actual words.

No, the best thing that could happen is if someone mashed it up with Akira Ifukube's Godzilla theme.

As the Fleischer Studios aptly demonstrated in 1941, Superman can deal with any kind of death ray by simply punching it aside. Assuming he's starting from the surface of a habitable planet, he can hold his breath long enough to fly through space to the Death Star and smash the beam emitters in that big dish thingy,…

The key to avoiding oppression in a world government is the same one America's founders hit on two centuries ago: a well-established system of checks and balances. Instead of a single monolithic entity that can run rampant, you have different facets of the government, or different states within the union, that are…

I love it! I've always preferred the classic, cleaner-lined, more technological console room designs of the old series to the more recent retro/cluttered versions. This one still has a bit of a retro look, but the console design reminds me of the original one from the '60s. Plus there are even wall roundels of a sort!

Or should that be "Humans: The Mammals Who Think Like Corvids"?

A planet with twice the mass and the same density would have twice the volume, and thus a radius of the cube root of 2, or 1.26, times Earth's radius. Gravity goes as the mass divided by the square of the radius (inverse square law), which works out to the radius times the density (if measured in ratio to the Earth…

I love it that the Comic Book Movie article misspelled Favreau's character name as "Happy Hogun." Are Iron Man and Thor going to switch sidekicks? Tadanobu Asano as Happy Hogun and Jon Favreau as Hogan the Grim?

A better Project Blue Book-related show —unfortunately not available on video and never shown since its original run — was Project U.F.O., a 1978 docudrama from Dragnet's Jack Webb, which dramatized actual Project Blue Book investigations the same way that Dragnet dramatized actual police cases. Generally there would…

Abrams hasn't personally run a TV show in ages; he's too busy with movies. He's basically just a co-developer and financial backer on most Bad Robot TV shows, and hasn't done any writing for either PoI or Revolution. PoI is a Jonathan Nolan show, with Greg Plageman as the showrunner. Eric Kripke is the showrunner for R…

Oh, I get it. The first four Turtles were named for great artists, and Eastman considered Kirby to be a great artist too.

Aren't you overlooking a possibility? Maybe the true identity of the person calling himself "John Harrison" is a secret within the film itself, one that isn't revealed until the third act. In that case, giving it away in advance publicity would be as great a spoiler as, say, revealing who Keyser Soze was or who Luke…

Prime Directive was actually the Reeves-Stevenses' second ST novel. Their first was Memory Prime.