X-File A Day – “Tooms”

“Tooms” is the twenty-first episode of The X-Files, and marks the return of Eugene Victor Tooms (Doug Hutchinson), last seen in episode 3, “Squeeze.” Somehow Tooms comes up for trial, and is released.  This is, of course, a bad decision because as soon as he’s freed he gets back to his old habits (extracting, and […]

X-File A Day – “Pilot”

This is the episode that started it all.  It begins with a woman, dressed in a nightgown,  running through a dense forest at night.  She falls – as women tend to do in these situations – and a light appears over a nearby hill.  A figure that appears to be male steps out of it, […]

‘Phantom’ Trailer

I had never heard of this film before I saw the poster when I went to see “Mama.”  It takes place during the Cold War, and is based upon a true story (whatever that means).  It stars David Duchovny, Ed Harris, and William Fichtner, though what interested me more was that two of the producers […]