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Project Blue Book Pilot Recap: “Logic Can’t Begin to Explain What We’re Dealing with Here”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:00:09 +0000

Aliens, UFOs, and two government agents investigating the paranormal amid a backdrop of shadowy conspiracies… What a novel idea for a TV show! How has nobody thought of this before? Project Blue Book, a new sci-fi mystery procedural produced by Robert Zemeckis for the History network, is such a blatant, by-the-numbers clone of The X...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 16th, 2018 – Fallen from Grace

Josh Zyber — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:00:29 +0000

The dinosaur franchise originally started by Steven Spielberg continues to stomp all over the worldwide box office. Will its reign of terror last forever, or will it eventually go extinct? New Releases Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are back in a follow-up to 2015’s box office behemoth Jurassic World....

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‘The X Files’ 11.10 Recap: “What If This Is Our Last Good Chance?”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:00:36 +0000

With Chris Carter writing and directing again, there was never any doubt that the season finale of ‘The X Files’ would be awful. The real question was always just how awful it could be. We’re back in mythology territory again, of course, despite the fact that the monster-of-the-week episodes are basically the only tolerable parts...

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‘The X Files’ 11.09 Recap: “It’s Your Day to Be Beautiful”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:00:08 +0000

For as frustratingly uneven as this season of ‘The X Files’ has been, I’ll give the show credit that several episodes, including this week’s, have felt like they could have come right out of the original series. Even if they’re not quite top-tier original series, that’s still an improvement over the last revival season. Episode...

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‘The X Files’ 11.08 Recap: “I Was Thinking More Like a Hellhound”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:00:46 +0000

It should be no surprise that last week’s playfully inventive episode of ‘The X Files’ was an anomaly this season. The show returns to classic monster-of-the-week form this week, to some mixed results. Episode ‘Familiar’ opens with a little boy at a playground, carrying a super-creepy doll called “Mr. Chuckleteeth” that has an evil smiling...

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‘The X Files’ 11.07 Recap: “We Learn from You”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:00:02 +0000

I went into this week’s episode of ‘The X Files’ with very low expectations. My hopes for the season have been tempered in general (outside of the Darin Morgan episode), and the plot description sounded kind of inane. Amazingly, it turns out to be fantastic, a surprise highlight of the season. The episode features only...

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‘The X Files’ 11.06 Recap: “I Think Cats Are Creepy”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:00:35 +0000

‘The Sixth Sense’ star Haley Joel Osment does a guest spot on ‘The X Files’ this week. All grown up now, he’s traded seeing ghosts for seeing monsters. I’m sure that Osment is probably sick of people always talking about him in relation to ‘The Sixth Sense’. As an adult, he’s actually had a pretty...

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‘The X Files’ 11.05 Recap: “Hope Is Not a Fact”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:00:03 +0000

It’s pretty unlikely that anything ‘The X Files’ delivers for the rest of this season will equal, much less top, last week’s highlight. This week’s episode certainly doesn’t. Almost like a bait-and-switch, ‘Ghouli’ initially presents itself as a Monster of the Week episode, but then reveals itself to actually be a mythology story. Considering how...

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‘The X Files’ 11.04 Recap: “A Conspiracy Nut Is Right Twice a Day”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:00:29 +0000

I may sound like a fanboy in this regard, but the promise of a new Darin Morgan episode is the main reason I continue to support ‘The X Files’ still churning out new seasons so long into the show’s decline. However badly the rest of the season may go, Morgan’s work always stands apart. In...

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‘The X Files’ 11.03 Recap: “Talk About Flinging Dookie!”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:00:40 +0000

Originally, the season’s Darin Morgan-penned comedic episode of ‘The X Files’ was scheduled for this week, but either the producers or the network decided to juggle the order of things and move one scripted by Chris Carter ahead of it. At least tonally, that may make a better transition from the prior two episodes. Despite...

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‘The X Files’ 11.02 Recap: “Who Needs Google When You’ve Got Scully?”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:00:48 +0000

Free from Chris Carter’s awful writing or directing, the second episode of ‘The X Files’ this season is a small improvement over the dreadful premiere. Just a small one, unfortunately. Episode ‘This’ (a lame title that’s not really explained or justified) was both written and directed by ‘X Files’ veteran Glen Morgan. Over the years,...

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‘The X Files’ 11.01 Recap: “I Just Want Somebody to Tell Me What the Hell’s Going On”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:00:02 +0000

If 2016’s six-episode revival of ‘The X Files’ was a so-called “limited event series,” why did it end with a cliffhanger begging for more episodes and what do we call the new season? Perhaps it’s time to give up this charade that any TV series is ever truly limited in length if it gets decent...

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