Netflix is currently airing Seasons One through Five of AMC’s monster hit drama, “Breaking Bad,” which is awesome. What’s not so awesome is that they have yet to get the remaining episodes of the Fifth, and last, season. This means that there are all sort of spoilers floating about, which I and anyone else that […]
“Darkness Falls” is the twentieth episode of the first season of The X-Flies, and despite its ‘monster of the week’ nature, is a favorite of mine. The story takes place in Olympic National Forest, in Northwest Washington State (though I am reasonably sure that it really doesn’t). A logging crew vanishes without a trace, though […]
Major spoilers below. Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores’ (otherwise known as The Butcher Brothers) “The Hamiltons,” while essentially a vampire film, is a post-modern take – vampirism is treated as a disease that you are born with, and can be spread by no other means. It shares more in common with films like “Near Dark” […]
Pete Travis’ Dredd is currently on Netflix, and after watching it again – I originally saw it in the theater – I can see why it did significantly better via rentals, DVD and Blue ray. It did so much better that it has resulted in a petition for a sequel, which is pretty impressive considering […]
If you were somehow able to snatch someone from Death’s irresistible grasp, would you? To free someone, perhaps a loved one, from that which is an undeniable – and inescapable – fact of life. Would you grant them a second chance? But nothing is without cost. For those you would return, they would be – […]
“E.B.E.” or Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, is the seventeenth episode of “The X-Files” and it probes a little bit deeper into the conspiracy that powered the series for most of its run – and before it totally went off the rails in later seasons. It begins in Iraq, when a pilot shoots down an unidentified flying […]
“Antiviral” is worth seeing, though it’s too cold, distant and clinical to be called enjoyable.” I really want to believe that that “Antiviral” had something to say about the nature of fame, and its costs. But, as the saying goes, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. The film, the first by Brandon Cronenberg (the […]
“Young At Heart” is the sixteenth episode of the series, and it’s a doozy. In it Mulder is being stalked by a man that’s , supposedly, already dead. When Mulder had just joined the FBI, he shot John Barnett (David Peterson), though not before he killed another agent during a robbery. Barnett was taken alive, […]
In “Lazarus,” the fifteenth episode of the series, Scully’s ex-boyfriend and fellow agent, Jack Willis (Christopher Allport) is killed during a stakeout of a bank, though afterward the robber is shot by Scully. Both men momentarily die, though upon the resuscitation of Agent Willis, somehow the consciousness of the robber is transferred to his body. […]
What is it about identical twins – as opposed to fraternal – that makes them so creepy (I mean the type that doesn’t seem to understand that, despite looking alike, that they are two separate individuals)? These twins – that seem to exist only exist only in movies, like David Cronenberg’s excellent “Dead Ringers,” – […]
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