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X Files - Deadalive
Features two episodes from Season 8, This Is Not Happening and Deadalive. Two abductees are returned in short succession, both vanished just before Mulder. One is dead the other barely alive and Scully's hopes are raised that Mulder may be found. Aided by Skinner she tracks down the alien healer Jeremiah Smith and asks for his help but whilst talking to him she is informed that Mulder has been found...dead. But is he?
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X Files - Season 4 (Boxset) (DVD)
Boxset containing seven discs. Episodes featured include Herenvolk, Unruhe, Home, Teliko, The Field Where I Died, Sanguinarium, Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man, Paper Hearts, Tunguska, Terma, El Mundo Gira, Haddish, Never Again, Leonard Betts, Momento Mori, Unrequited, Tempus Fugit, Max, Synchrony, Small Potatoes, Zero Sun, Elegy, Demons and Gethsemane.
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X Files - Existence
Scully prepares for the birth of her baby and as she does so a number of other people are also getting ready...Krycek claims the baby is a threat to the aliens and offers his help, but his final confrontation with Mulder and Skinner ends in violence...
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X Files - Season 3 (Boxset) (Collectors Edition) (DVD)
Features all twenty four episodes of the award-winning Series Three. Includes: The Blessing Way, Paper Clip, D.P.O., Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, The List, 2Shy, The Walk, Oubliette, Nisei, 731, Revelations, War Of The Coprophages, Syzygy, Grotesque, Piper Maru, Apocrypha, Pusher, Teso Dos Bichos, Hell Money, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, Avatar, Quagmire, Wetwired and Talitha Cumi.
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X Files - Nothing Important Happened Today
Agent Doggett and Agent Reyes find themselves alone in their investigation against Deputy Director Kersh when Agent Mulder and the videotaped evidence of what happened the night Scully's baby was born, both disappear. Even Scully is not interested until her baby starts to exhibit unusual behaviour. She contacts Doggett only to find he wants her to meet a woman who claims to be a product of the government's plan to breed 'Super Soldiers'....
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X Files - Providence
After learning that Mulder might be dead, Scully's fears are heightened when William is kidnapped by the alien cult. Dogget is in a coma from a suspicious hit and run accident, so Scully must pull herself together and track down William before the kidnappes have their way with him.
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X Files - Season 5 (Boxset) (DVD)
Boxset containing the whole of season 5 including the episodes: Unusual Suspects, Redux, Redux 2, Detour, Christmas Carol, The Post Modern Prometheus, Emily, Kitsunegari, Schizogeny, Bunghoney, Kill Switch, Bad Blood, Patient X, The Red And The Black, Travellers, Mind's Eye, All Souls, The Pine Bluff Variant, Folie A Deux and the End.
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X Files - The Truth
The gripping conclusion to the Season 9 finale and the final piece of the mythology arc. After not knowing Fox Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, A.D. Skinner and Agent Scully learn that he is being held for murder of a military man that he could not have possibly killed - Knowle Rohrer, one of the government's secret super-soldiers... Also includes an extra 'lucky dip' episode on a separate DVD.
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X Files - Season 6 (Boxset) (DVD)
Boxset containing all the episodes from Season 6. Includes Episodes featured are: The Beginning, Drive, Triangle, Dreamland, Dreamland II, Terms Of Endearment, The Rain King, How The Ghosts Stole Christmas, Tithonus, S.R. 819, Two Fathers, One Son, Arcadia, Agua Mala, Monday, Alpha, Trevor, Milagro, Three Of A Kind, The Unnatural, Field Trip and Biogenesis.
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X FILES RESIST OR SERVE
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X FILES SEASON 3
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X FILES SEASON 5 BOXSET
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X FILES SEASON 9
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT X Files: Season 8 [2000]
The eighth season of <I>The X-Files</I> will always be remembered as the year of brave decisions. David Duchovny's increasing dissatisfaction with the role meant he'd only appear in a few episodes. The solution? Enter Agent John Doggett (Robert Patrick) who basically stole the show within his first two minutes of screen time (and watch out for several Terminator 2 in-jokes too!). Scully (Gillian Anderson) switched roles to being the believer alongside Doggett's skeptic in a year that was more reliant on the background story arc than ever before. <P> Her pregnancy remained at the foreground, while a more prominent Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) joined in a hunt for the abducted Mulder that drew upon the black oil, cloning, and bounty-hunting aspects of the convoluted alien conspiracy story. A distinct lack of guest stars or writers indicated maturity beyond the need for ratings stunts: dedicated fans were pleased to see sinister Krycek, the reliable Lone Gunmen, and the return of the show's very first abductee. <P> The real strengths of the season came from new characters, including alternative female role model Special Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), and some terrific standalone episodes. Investigations covered a man going backward in time, deaths aboard an oil rig, a contagion in the Boston subway tunnels, and creatures resembling bats and slugs. Agent Leyla Harrison (named after an <I>X-Files</I> fan who died of cancer) got to ask all the petty questions regular viewers want to know themselves. With season 9 promised to be the last, this year was a remarkable achievement so late in a show's life.--<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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X Files - Season 7 (Boxset) (DVD)
Boxset containing all twenty-two episodes, taking you on a journey into the gruesome paranormal with FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). Containing award-winning episodes never before shown on terrestrial television, Season Seven marks the end of the mythology surrounding Mulder's sister Samantha in 'Closure'.
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X Files - Season 8 (Boxset) (DVD)
Boxset containing the whole of Season 8. Scully and Skinner are desperate to begin the search for Mulder, but the new Deputy Director, Kersh, however has different ideas and has assigned a special taskforce to take over the search, headed up by special agent John Doggett. Episodes include: Within, Without, Patience, Roadrunners, Invocation, Redrum, Via Negativa, Surekill, Salvage, Badlaa, The Gift, Medusa, Per Manum, This Is Not Happening, DeadAlive, Three Words, Empedocles, Vienen, Alone, Essence and Existence.
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X Files - Season 9 (Boxset) (DVD)
Boxset containing the whole of Season 9. Includes: Nothing Important Happened Today, Nothing Important Happened Today II, Daeonicus, 4-D, Lord Of The Flies, Trust No 1, John Doe, Hellbound, Provenance, Providence, Audrey Pauley, Underneath, Improbable, Scary Monsters, Jump the Shark, William, Release, Sunshine Days and The Truth.
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X Files - Season 4
Boxset containing the following episodes: Herenvolk, Unruhe, Home, Teliko, The Field Where I Died, Sanguinarium, Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man, Paper Hearts, Tunguska, Terma, El Mundo Gira, Haddish, Never Again, Leonard Betts, Momento Mori, Unrequited, Tempus Fugit, Max, Synchrony, Small Potatoes, Zero Sun, Elegy, Demons and Gethsemane.
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X Files - Season 6
Boxset containing all the episodes from Season 6. Includes the following: The Beginning, Drive, Triangle, Dreamland, Dreamland II, Terms Of Endearment, The Rain King, How The Ghosts Stole Christmas, Tithonus, S.R. 819, Two Fathers, One Son, Arcadia, Agua Mala, Monday, Alpha, Trevor, Milagro, Three Of A Kind, The Unnatural, Field Trip and Biogenesis.
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X Files - Season 5
Boxset containing the whole of Season 5 including the episodes: Unusual Suspects, Redux, Redux 2, Detour, Christmas Carol, The Post Modern Prometheus, Emily, Kitsunegari, Schizogeny, Bunghoney, Kill Switch, Bad Blood, Patient X, The Red And The Black, Travellers, Mind's Eye, All Souls, The Pine Bluff Variant, Folie A Deux and The End.
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X Files - Season 7
Boxset containing all twenty-two episodes from Season 7, taking you on a journey into the gruesome paranormal with FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). Containing the episodes: The Sixth Extinction, The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati, Hungry, Millennium, Rush, The Goldberg Variation, Orison, The Amazing Maleeni, Signs And Wonders, Sein Und Zeit, Closure, X-COPS, First Person Shooter, Theef, En Ami, Chimera, All Things, Brand X, Hollywood A.D., Fight Club, Je Souhaite and Requiem. Season 7 marks the end of the mythology surrounding Mulder's sister Samantha in 'Closure'.
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X Files - Season 8
Boxset containing the whole of Season 8. Scully and Skinner are desperate to begin the search for Mulder, but the new Deputy Director, Kersh, however has different ideas and has assigned a special taskforce to take over the search, headed up by special agent John Doggett. Episodes include: Within, Without, Patience, Roadrunners, Invocation, Redrum, Via Negativa, Surekill, Salvage, Badlaa, The Gift, Medusa, Per Manum, This Is Not Happening, DeadAlive, Three Words, Empedocles, Vienen, Alone, Essence and Existence.
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X Files - Season 2
Features twenty five episodes. Includes: Little Green Men, The Host, Blood, Sleepless, Duane Barry, Ascension, 3, One Breath, Firewalker, Red Museum, Excelsius Dei, Aubrey, Irresistible, Die Hand Die Verletzt, Fresh Bones, Colony, End Game, Fearful Symmetry Dod Kalm, Humbug, Calusari, F. Emasculata Soft Light, Our Town and Anasazi.
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X Files - Season 1
All twenty four episodes from Season One. Episodes include: Pilot, Deep Throat, Squeeze, Conduit, The Jersey Devil, Shadows, Ghost In The Machine, Ice, Space, Fallen Angel, Eve, Fire, Beyond The Sea, Genderbender, Lazarus, Young At Heart, E.B.E., Miracle Man, Shapes, Darkness Falls, Tooms, Born Again, Roland and The Erlenmeyer Flask.
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X Files - Season 9
Boxset containing the whole of Season 9. Includes: Nothing Important Happened Today, Nothing Important Happened Today II, Daeonicus, 4-D, Lord Of The Flies, Trust No 1, John Doe, Hellbound, Provenance, Providence, Audrey Pauley, Underneath, Improbable, Scary Monsters, Jump The Shark, William, Release, Sunshine Days and The Truth.
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X Files - Season 3
Features all twenty four episodes of the award-winning Series Three. Includes: The Blessing Way, Paper Clip, D.P.O., Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, The List, 2Shy, The Walk, Oubliette, Nisei, 731, Revelations, War Of The Coprophages, Syzygy, Grotesque, Piper Maru, Apocrypha, Pusher, Teso Dos Bichos, Hell Money, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, Avatar, Quagmire, Wetwired and Talitha Cumi.
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X Files - The Movie
Terrific movie answering some of the questions and mysteries from the TV series. Special Agents Mulder and Scully are re-assigned to bomb detail after five years of chasing paranormal activity. But Mulder discovers more and more information about an underground alien city and a group of men protecting the secret... Contains exclusive interviews and footage not seen in cinemas.
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X Files - Season 1 - 9 (Complete) (Boxset) (DVD)
Complete boxed set collection of all episodes from the nine series of The X-Files. Episodes include: Pilot, Deep Throat, Squeeze, Conduit, The Jersey Devil, Shadows, Ghost In The Machine, Ice, Space, Fallen Angel, Eve, Fire, Beyond The Sea, Genderbender, Lazarus, Young At Heart, E.B.E., Miracle Man, Shapes, Darkness Falls, Tooms, Born Again, Roland, The Erlenmeyer Flask, Little Green Men, The Host, Blood, Sleepless, Duane Barry, Ascension, 3, One Breath, Firewalker, Red Museum, Excelsius Dei, Aubrey, Irresistible, Die Hand Die Verletzt, Fresh Bones, Colony, End Game, Fearful Symmetry Dod Kalm, Humbug, Calusari, F. Emasculata Soft Light, Our Town, Anasazi, The Blessing Way, Paper Clip, D.
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 5 [1994]
Release Date: 2004-12-27, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT X Files: Season 7 [1999]
Release Date: 2005-03-14, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 4 [1994]
In Season 4 of <I>The X-Files</I>, Scully is a bit upset by her on-off terminal cancer and Mulder is supposed to shoot himself in the season finale (did anyone believe that?), but in episode after episode the characters still plod dutifully around atrocity sites tossing off wry witticisms in that bland investigative demeanour out of fashion among TV cops since <I>Dragnet</I>. Perhaps the best achievement of this season is Home, the most unpleasant horror story ever presented on prime-time US TV. It's not a comfortable show--confronted with this ghastly parade of incest, inbreeding, infanticide and mutilation, you'd think M & S would drop the jokes for once--but shows a willingness to expand the envelope. By contrast, ventures into golem, reincarnation, witchcraft and Invisible Man territory throw up run-of-the-mill body counts, spotlighting another recurrent problem. For heroes, M & S rarely do anything positive: they work out what is happening after all the killer's intended victims have been snuffed (Kaddish), let the monster get away (Sanguinarium) and cause tragedies (The Field Where I Died). No wonder they're stuck in the FBI basement where they can do the least damage. <p> The series has settled enough to play variations on earlier hits: following the liver vampire, we have a melanin vampire (Teliko) and a cancer vampire (Leonard Betts), and return engagements for the oily contact lens aliens and the weasely ex-Agent Krycek (Tunguska/Terma). Occasional detours into send-up or post-modernism are indulged, yielding both the season's best episode (Small Potatoes) and its most disappointing (Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man). Small Potatoes, with the mimic mutant who tries out Mulder's life and realises what a loser he is (how many other pin-up series heroes get answerphone messages from their favourite phone-sex lines?), works as a genuine sci-fi mystery--for once featuring a mutant who doesn't have to kill people to live--and as character insight. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 6 [1994]
Release Date: 2004-12-27, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 3 [1994]
Focused lightning bolts, stigmata, possession, and ancient curses become secondary in Season 3 of <i>The X-Files</i> as more episodes are devoted to pursuing the increasingly complex story threads. The Blessing Way is an explosive start, introducing the Syndicate's well-manicured man (John Neville), while Scully's sister Melissa is shot and Mulder experiences <i>Twin Peaks</i>-like prophetic visions. We learn of medical records of millions, including Scully, who have been experimented upon (Paper Clip): the fast-paced train-bound two-parter Nisei and 731 suggests the experiments are about alien hybridisation. Krycek turns out to be hosting an alien in the next double-act, Piper Maru and Apocrypha, in which Skinner is shot by Melissa's killer. Two great one-offs outside the arc are Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, a bittersweet tale of foreseeing death (featuring an Emmy-winning performance from Peter Boyle) and Jose Chung's From Outer Space, a spoof of alien conspiracy theories through an author's investigations into abductees. --<i>Paul Tonks</i>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT X Files: Season 9 [2003]
Release Date: 2005-03-14, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 2 [1994]
Season Two, the 1994-95 run, of <i>The X Files</i> was the one where creator Chris Carter, having had a surprise hit when he expected a one-season wonder, started trying to make sense of all the storylines he had thrown into the pile in the first year. Moreover, he had to cope with Gillian Anderson's maternity leave by having Scully get abducted by aliens (back then, a pretty fresh device) for a few episodes and come back strangely altered. The season also inaugurated the tradition of opening (Little Green Men) and closing (Anasazi) with the show's worst episodes, both pot-boiling attempts to keep the alien infiltration/government conspiracy balls up in the air while seeming to offer narrative forward-thrusts or revelations.<p> But it's also a show noticeably surer of itself than Season One, with its stars reading from the same page in terms of their characters' relationship and attitudes to the wondrous. Scully's no-longer-workable scepticism finally starts to erode in the face of Mulder's increasingly cracked belief. There are fewer marking-time leftover-monster-of-the-week shows--although we do get a human fluke (The Host), vampires (3), an invisible rapist (Excelsius Dei) voodoo (Fresh Bones)--and the flying-saucer stories at last seem to be going somewhere. The powerful two-episode run (Duane Barry, Ascension) features Steve Railsback as Mulder's possible future, an FBI agent burned out after a UFO abduction who has become a hostage-taking terrorist, which climaxes with Scully's disappearance into the light. The standout episode is also a stand-alone--Humbug--the first and still most successful of the show's self-parodies (written by Darin Morgan, who had played the Flukeman in The Host), in which the agents investigate a murder in a circus freakshow, allowing the actors to make fun of the mannerisms they have earnestly built up in a run of solemn, even somnolent, explorations of the murk. Other worthy efforts: Aubrey, about genetic memory; Irresistible, a rare (and creepy) straight psycho-chiller with little paranormal content; and The Calusari, a good ghost/mystery. Rising deputy characters include Nicholas Lea as the perfidious Krycek and Brian Thompson as the shapeshifting alien bounty hunters. Notable guest stars: Charles Martin Smith, C.C.H. Pounder, Leland Orser, Terry O'Quinn, Bruce Weitz, Daniel Benzali, John Savage, Vincent Schiavelli, Tony Shalhoub. --<i>Kim Newman</i>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 5 [1994]
The fifth season of <I>The X-Files</I> is the one in which the ongoing alien conspiracy arc really takes over, building towards box-office glory for the inevitable cinematic leap in <I>The X-Files Movie</I> (1998). The series opener Redux begins with Mulder having been framed for everything going. Scully finally sees a UFO (The Red and the Black) before being presented with a potential daughter (the two-part Christmas Carol and Emily). By The End, there's an enormous tangle of threads for the big-screen adaptation to unravel (or not, as it turned out). Cigarette Smoking Man is being hunted, playing every side against the middle, as well as chasing after information on Mulder's sister. Krycek is back, too, as is an old flame for Mulder in the shape of Agent Diana Fowley. <p> If that wasn't enough to goad viewers into the cinema, there was the Lone Gunmen's 1989-set back story (Unusual Suspects, with Richard Belzer playing his <I>Homicide: Life on the Streets</I> character), a musical number in the black and white <I>Frankenstein</I> ; homage Post Modern Prometheus, and scripts co-written by Stephen King (Chinga), William Gibson (Kill Switch), and even Darren McGavin (who had inspired the show as <I>Kolchak: The Night Stalker</I>) in Travellers. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The X-Files, Season 5</I> extras include Chris Carter's commentary over Post Modern Prometheus, which reveals the decision making behind shooting in black and white as well as the problems it caused. A second commentary is from writer/coproducer John Shiban on Pine Bluff Variant, where he openly admits the influence of <I>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</I>. Across the six discs (only 20 episodes because of the movie of course) you get credits for every episode, their TV promo spots, deleted and international versions of several scenes (some with commentary from Carter), and a couple of TV featurettes. The best of these is The Truth About Season 5, talking to an excited Dean Haglund (Langly) amongst other crew members.--<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Deadalive [1994]
This release consists of two episodes--This is Not Happening and Deadalive--of the eighth series of <I>The X-Files</I> spliced together into a feature-length story. With David Duchovny contracted only to do a certain percentage of shows this year, Robert Patrick was brought in as Agent John Doggett, partnering Gillian Anderson's Agent Scully while Duchovny's Mulder is off being tortured by alien-abductors in what looks like an industrial dentist's chair. This story comes about two-thirds of the way through the arc and sets up Duchovny's return to the show--though he literally has to die and come back to get back on the case. It's an unfortunate paradox that most <I>X-Files</I> stand-alone releases concentrate on the dreary alien-abduction/conspiracy episodes which carry the greater storyline of the show, giving the misleading impression that the series is a drearily solemn, badly plotted, straight-faced but stupid sci-fi soap opera. Always skipped over are the far more interesting, entertaining and impressive stand-alone supernatural mysteries or strange comic exercises. Though Duchovny is mostly lying in a hospital bed with oatmeal all over his face, Anderson--whose character is pregnant this series, another dull sub-plot--still gives an amazingly committed performance and gets terrific support from Patrick, whose character has shaken up a lot of what was settled or stale about the show, and the always-underrated Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Skinner. The story features several wild-eyed UFO guru types (including Roy Thinnes, once star of <I>The Invaders</I>) and returned abductees transformed into un-killable alien zombies. It's as well made as ever, with ominous shadows and the odd smart line, but you need to have been paying very close attention for seven years to understand what's going on. With Duchovny a potential escapee and Anderson perhaps in line to follow, this episode brings on the excellent Annabeth Gish as Agent Monica Reyes, a specialist in bizarre rituals, who is being effectively set up to partner Patrick in a post-Mulder-and-Scully <I>X-Files</I> that might well keep the franchise going on forever <I>Star Trek</I>-fashion. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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X FILES SEASON 4 BOX SET
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X FILES SEASON 8
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X FILES SEASON 8
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HarperCollins X Files: Trust No One (X Files)
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Existence [1994]
The pretentiously titled <I>Existence</I> is another two-part <I>X-Files</I> yarn glued together to make a feature-length episode. Here the story concerns the birth of Scully's perhaps-alien-tinged child and proves the old maxim that you should stop watching any series when the characters start having babies. By now, newbie Robert Patrick is settled into the role of Agent Doggett, Scully's new partner on the X-Files, but David Duchovny's contract negotiations have enabled Fox Mulder, no longer in the FBI, to come back and hang about the delivery, clashing and then bonding with his replacement. The action content comes from a mild-mannered alien abductee transformed into an unstoppable killing machine, ripping through everything as he tries to prevent the upcoming nativity for reasons that (as ever) don't quite become clear. Also in the support cast are semi-regular Nicholas Lea as lurking plot-explaining conspirator Alex Krycek, and the more welcome Annabeth Gish, whose interestingly spiritual Agent Monica Reyes is being worked up as a replacement for Scully when Gillian Anderson gets out of her contract. Weirdly, <I>The X-Files</I> is in pretty good shape for a show that's been running this long--the performances and the direction are still strong, and outside the continuing story shows individual episodes hold up well. But this dreary muddle of running about (plus the odd decapitation) and agonised rumination (blathery philosophical musings about the miracle of life and childbirth) does not represent the series' strengths, suggesting that the best thing that could happen would be to get shot of the long-time stars and their played-out characters to make room for a revitalised show starring Patrick and Gish. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> The full-screen print, with the extra detail of the DVD image and Dolby Digital, allow you to pick up a lot more than from the murky telecasts. Alex Krycek Revealed Parts 1 and 2, a couple of character profiles, turn out to be very snippet-like Fox TV promo pieces, with some interview footage and behind-the-scenes stuff amid the usual teaser clips.--<I>Kim Newman</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 1 [1994]
In the first season of <i>The X Files</i>, creator Chris Carter was uncertain of the series' future, so each of the episodes is a self-contained suspense story; they do not delve deep into the ongoing <i>X Files</i> mythology or turn to self-parody and humour as do episodes in later seasons. Yet, these episodes display the elements for which the show would become famous: the cinematic production values and top-notch special effects, the stark lighting of the Vancouver sets, the atmospheric halo of Mark Snow's score, and the clever plots dealing with subjects ranging from the occult, religion, and monsters to urban legends, conspiracy theories and science fiction. Most importantly, Season 1 introduces FBI agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Spooky Mulder (David Duchovny), two of the most attractive government officials around. Scully is the serious-minded medical scientist assigned to join Mulder on the X Files, a division of the FBI dealing with the paranormal. Mulder is the intuitive thinker with a dry wit, a passionate believer in the existence of paranormal phenomena and one of the few characters on television smart enough to figure out who the bad guy is before the audience does. Their muddled relationship, a deep friendship laced with sexual tension, provides the human heart in a world where the bizarre and horrible lurk in everyday society. <p> The materials on the bonus disc provide some interesting trivia and background, but it is the 24 episodes themselves that make this seven-disc boxed set a true find. Those unfamiliar with <i>The X Files</i> often view all the fuss with the same scepticism with which Scully first regards her new partner's ideas. But just as she comes to realise the uncanny accuracy of Mulder's outlandish theories, newcomers to <i>The X Files</i> who sample a few episodes in this boxed set will likely find themselves riveted to their television late into the night. And undoubtedly, the shadows and creaking noises in the house that evening will seem more menacing than usual. --<i>Eugene Wei</i>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Nothing Important Happened Today [2001]
It has become traditional for <I>The X-Files</I> to kick off each new season with a humourless conspiracy two-parter, and Season 9 is no exception: in <I>The X Files: Nothing Important Happened Today</I> David Duchovny's Mulder is gone, along with everything in his apartment, and Gillian Anderson's Scully is mostly at home with her perhaps-telekinetic baby, which leaves the bulk of the investigation to promising new characters Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish).<p>The A-plot features Lucy Lawless as a water-breathing terminatrix who could be an alien, a government experiment or a mermaid without it making any difference, but too much time is spent on impossible-to-follow subplots about internal FBI politics and everyone's intricate backstory (if ever a release needed a previously... prologue, this is it). Usually, the series gets over these heart-sinking openers and livens up a bit, but this time there's a feeling that this is the end of the line for a thoroughly battered premise.<p>Chris Carter joins Gene Roddenberry in the exclusive category of producer-creators who turn in the worst scripts for their own shows, and all the strengths of <I>The X-Files</I> (shivers, wit, provocative ideas) are missing in action here as the engine grinds on empty.<p><B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The X-Files: Nothing Important Happened Today</I> on disc arrives with two three-minute filler featurettes, focusing on Gish's character and the making of this show. The good news is that this anamorphic widescreen release is the best <I>The X-Files</I> has ever looked in a television format, showing that however dramatically exhausted it might be, the show remains technically impressive. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Providence [2002]
As with earlier releases, <I>The X-Files: Providence</I> splices together two episodes, Provenance and Providence, into a pseudo-movie. Again, the results fall way below the series average as the long-dead alien conspiracy business is flogged, with a lot of running around and ominous rumbling still not adding up to anything like an actual story. FBI agent Neal McDonaugh (of <I>Minority Report</I>) inexplicably survives a flaming motorcycle crash, leaving behind brass rubbings taken from an alien spaceship, then shows up and tries to murder Scully's psychokinetic baby, who is promptly kidnapped by a UFO cult. <p> In Part 2, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) fend off enemies and friends within the bureau as they track down the cultists, who are having trouble with a spaceship they've dug up, and a typical pointless climax has things happen without the characters doing anything to contribute. Even at this late, post-Duchovny stage in the game, <I>The X-Files</I> has turned out some fine stand-alone episodes, but these dreary wallowings go a long way towards explaining why only diehards are still watching. After the child says I made this at the end of the credits, it's becoming very hard not to shout well, clean it up then. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The X-Files: Providence</I>, as with <I>Nothing Important Happened Today</I>, arrives in a great-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer. There are two slight promotional featurettes--three-minute clips/talking heads promos focusing on the episode Providence and actor Cary Elwes' character. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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The X Files Deadalive
The X Files Deadalive DVD Region 2 The X Files Deadalive, Catalogue Number: 22275DVD, Release Date: 06/08/2001
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Hungry Minds Inc,U.S. Dr.Mac: The OS X Files - How to Become an Mac OS X Power User
Pages: 672, Paperback, Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
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Black and White Publishing McX: Scottish X Files
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files : Season 4 Box Set
In Season 4 of <I>The X-Files</I>, Scully is a bit upset by her on-off terminal cancer and Mulder is supposed to shoot himself in the season finale (did anyone believe that?), but in episode after episode the characters still plod dutifully around atrocity sites tossing off wry witticisms in that bland investigative demeanour out of fashion among TV cops since <I>Dragnet</I>. Perhaps the best achievement of this season is Home, the most unpleasant horror story ever presented on prime-time US TV. It's not a comfortable show--confronted with this ghastly parade of incest, inbreeding, infanticide and mutilation, you'd think M & S would drop the jokes for once--but shows a willingness to expand the envelope. By contrast, ventures into golem, reincarnation, witchcraft and Invisible Man territory throw up run-of-the-mill body counts, spotlighting another recurrent problem. For heroes, M & S rarely do anything positive: they work out what is happening after all the killer's intended victims have been snuffed (Kaddish), let the monster get away (Sanguinarium) and cause tragedies (The Field Where I Died). No wonder they're stuck in the FBI basement where they can do the least damage. <p> The series has settled enough to play variations on earlier hits: following the liver vampire, we have a melanin vampire (Teliko) and a cancer vampire (Leonard Betts), and return engagements for the oily contact lens aliens and the weasely ex-Agent Krycek (Tunguska/Terma). Occasional detours into send-up or post-modernism are indulged, yielding both the season's best episode (Small Potatoes) and its most disappointing (Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man). Small Potatoes, with the mimic mutant who tries out Mulder's life and realises what a loser he is (how many other pin-up series heroes get answerphone messages from their favourite phone-sex lines?), works as a genuine sci-fi mystery--for once featuring a mutant who doesn't have to kill people to live--and as character insight. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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X Files - Series 3 (M-Lock Packaging)
Featuring episodes from Series Three.
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